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.
      WEIGHT,”) Time, place, &c., the obj. case in expressions of, taken
      after the fashion of an adv. Time, measure, distance, or value,
      nouns of, their peculiarity of construc.; the parsing of Time, obj.
      noun of, qualifying a subsequent adj., ("A child OF ten years
      OLD,”) Four times, five times, &c., how to be reckoned.  TIMES,
      before an other noun, by way of MULTIPLICATION, the nature and
      construc. of, discussed; decision. Times, in what construc. may be
      called the objective of repetition, or of time repeated. Time
      in pronunciation, or quantity

Titles, of books, are printed in capitals
    —­of office, &c., begin with do.
    —­merely mentioned as such, are without art.
    —­Name and TITLE, (see Proper Names.) Side-titles, use of dash
      in application to

Tmesis, explained

To, as governing infin. mood
    —­do., variously explained by grammarians
    —­is a sign of inf., but not a part of it
    —­what BROWN claims for his RULE respecting the infin. as gov. by the
      prep.
TO, &c.; he shows that the doctrine originated not with
      himself
    —­TO and the verb, what FISHER (anno 1800) taught respecting; what,
      LOWTH, and what, absurdly, MURR., his copyist
    —­To, as governing infin., traced from the Sax. to the Eng. of
      WICKL.,
    —­To, before infin., evasive teachings of the later grammarians
      concerning its class and construc.
    —­do., how considered by most Eng. grammarians
    —­do., how proved to be a prep.
    —­do., preceded by for, anc.
    —­after what verbs, omitted,
    —­whether to be repeated before infinitives in the same construe.
    —­sometimes required, and sometimes excluded, after than or as
    —­whether it may be separated from its verb by an adv.; is placed
      more elegantly AFTER an adv., ("PROPERLY TO respect,”)
    —­in what cases has no prop, antec. term of relat.
    —­To suppressed and be inserted after MAKE, whether correctly
    —­To, prep, or adv., from Anglo-Sax.
    —­To, as prefix to noun, (to-day, to-night, to-morrow,).

Tones of the voice, what; why deserving of j particular attention
    —­what denominated by SHERID.; what should be their character
    —­BLAIR’S remark on; HIL. do.
    —­Tones of the passions, WALK, observation on.

Topics, different, to be treated in separate paragraphs, PREC. of Unity.

Transposition, of the terms of relat., when a preposition begins or ends a sentence or clause
    —­rhetorical, of words, or hyperbaton.

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