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.

Than, as, with ellips. in latter term of comparison
    —­character and import of
    —­declinable words connected by, put in same case
    —­Than WHOM, as Gr. genitive governed by comparat., MILT.
    —­what grammarians have inferred from the phrase
    —­MURR. expedient to dispose of do. 
    —­CHURCH. makes the rel. in do. “the obj. case absol.,”
    —­BROWN determines with respect to the construc.
    —­Than, as demanded after else, other, &c., and Eng. comparatives
    —­derivation of, from Goth. or Anglo-Sax.

That, its class determined
    —­its various uses
    —­as REL.  PRONOUN, to what applied
    —­as used in anomalous construc.,
    —­its peculiarity of construc. as a relative
    —­its especial use as the restrictive relative
    —­the frequent employment of, by Addison, wrongly criticised by BLAIR
    —­as a relative, in what cases more appropriate than who or which
    —­That, ellipt., repeating the import of the preceding words, ("And
      THAT,”
    —­[Greek:  kai tauta],)
    —­That, in the phrases in that, &c., how to be reckoned
    —­That, as introducing a dependent clause, how to be ranked
    —­as introducing a sent. made the subj. or obj. of a finite verb
    —­its power at the head of a sent. or clause
    —­its derivation

The, before the species, what may denote
    —­how commonly limits the sense
    —­applied to nouns of either numb.
    —­before what adjectives, required
    —­distinctive use of ("The Psalmist”)
    —­as relating to comparatives and superlatives
    —­used for poss. pron.
    —­repetition of, how avoided
    —­derivation of, from Sax.
    —­pronunc. of e in.  See also Definite Article.

Them, in vulg. use as an adj., for those

Thence, &c., with from prefixed, whether allowable

There, introductory and idiomatic, notions of grammarians concerning; its
posit. and use; is a regular adv. of place, and not “without
signification,”
    —­derivation of, from Anglo-Sax.
    —­poet. omission of

They, put indefinitely for men or people

This and that, as explained by CHURCH.
    —­placed before conjoint singulars, ("THIS POWER AND WILL do,” &c.,)
    —­in contrasted terms

Three stars, or asterism, use of

Time, the order and fitness of, to be observed in constructions
expressing it
    —­nouns of, with adv.  WHEN, as a special relative, following Time,
      measure
, or weight, part made possessive of the whole, ("An
      HOUR’S time”)
    —­noun of, not poss., immediately before an other, ("A POUND

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