The Grammar of English Grammars eBook

Goold Brown
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 4,149 pages of information about The Grammar of English Grammars.

The Grammar of English Grammars eBook

Goold Brown
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 4,149 pages of information about The Grammar of English Grammars.

No or none, pronom. adj. No, as negative adj., “remarkable ambiguity
in the use of,” noticed by PRIESTL., ("No laws are better than the
English
;”) how the ambiguity may be avoided
    —­as a simple negation, its construc.
    —­as an adv. of deg., relating only to comparatives, ("NO more,”
    —­“NO better”)
    —­set before a noun, is an adj., corresponding to Lat. nullus
    —­In the phrases, no longer, no more, no where, DR. JOH. appar.
      suggests wrongly the class; its true class according to its several
      relations
    —­No, or an other independent negative, repeated, its effect
    —­No, adv., not to be used with reference to a verb or part.
    —­derivation of, from Anglo-Sax.

Nominative case, defined
    —­Nom. case, how distinguished from the objective in nouns
    —­as subj. of a finite verb
    —­different ways of using
    —­Nominative and verb, usual position of, and when varied
    —­Nom. case and object., at the same time, noun placed in the
      relation of
    —­Nom. following a verb or part, with what must accord in signif.  See
      also Subject, &c.

Nominative sentences, examples of what MURR. erron. so terms; the prop. construc. shown

Nor, see Or.

Not, its place in negative questions
    —­how spoken in grave discourse, and how ordinarily
    —­vulg. contractions of, with certain verbs
    —­used with other negatives
    —­do. with nor (in stead of or) following, whether correctly, or
      not
    —­derivation of, from Anglo-Sax. Not but, how resolved. Not only,
      not merely
, to what are correspondents

Notwithstanding, import and construc. of; misunderstood by DR. WEBST.
    —­formation and signif. of

NOUNS, Etymol. of
    —­Noun, defined
    —­Nouns, Classes of, named and defined
    —­Modifications of, named
    —­Persons of, named and defined; (see Persons)
    —­Numbers of, do.; (see Plural Number)
    —­Genders of, do.; (see Genders)
    —­Cases of, do.; (see Cases)
    —­Declension of
    —­Nouns, number of, in Eng.
    —­the sense of, how made indefinitely partitive
    —­examples of words commonly belonging to other classes, used as
    —­collective, abstract, and verbal or participial, included among
      common nouns; (see Collective Noun, and Particip.  Noun)
    —­proper, (see Proper Names)
    —­Nouns, Synt. of
    —­Noun, why may not be put in the relation of two cases at once
    —­taken figuratively sing. for literally plur.
    —­required to be repeated, or inserted, in stead of a pronoun
    —­ellips. of, shown
    —­Nouns of time, measure, distance, &c., (see Time)
    —­Nouns, derivation of, from nouns, adjectives, verbs, or participles
    —­poet. peculiarities of

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