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.
p. 56.  “The brilliancy which the sun displays on its own disk, is sun shine.”—­Ib., p. 63.  “A word of three syllables is termed a trisyllable.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 23; Coar’s, 17; Jaudon’s, 13; Comly’s, 8; Cooper’s, New Gr., 8; Kirkham’s, 20; Picket’s, 10; Alger’s, 12; Blair’s, 1; Guy’s, 2; Bolles’s Spelling-Book, 161.  See Johnson’s Dict. “A word of three syllables is termed a trissyllable.”—­British Gram., p. 33; Comprehensive Gram., 23; Bicknell’s, 17; Allen’s, 31; John Peirce’s, 149; Lennie’s, 5; Maltby’s, 8; Ingersoll’s, 7; Bradley’s, 66; Davenport’s, 7; Bucke’s, 16; Bolles’s Spelling-Book, 91.  See Littleton’s Lat.  Dict. (1.) “Will, in the first Persons, promises or threatens:  But in the second and third Persons, it barely foretells.”—­British Gram., p. 132. (2.) “Will, in the first Persons, promises or threatens; but in the second and third Persons, it barely foretells.”—­Buchanan’s Gram., p. 41. (3.) “Will, in the first person, promises, engages, or threatens.  In the second and third persons, it merely foretels.”—­Jaudon’s Gram., p. 59. (4.) “Will, in the first person singular and plural, promises or threatens; in the second and third persons, only foretells.”—­Lowth’s Gram., p. 41. (5.) “Will, in the first person singular and plural, intimates resolution and promising; in the second and third person, only foretels.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 88; Ingersoll’s, 136; Fisk’s, 78; A.  Flint’s, 42; Bullions’s, 32; Hamlin’s, 41; Cooper’s Murray, 50. [Fist] Murray’s Second Edition has it “foretells.” (6.) “Will, in the first person singular and plural, expresses resolution and promising.  In the second and third persons it only foretells.”—­Comly’s Gram., p. 38; E.  Devis’s, 51; Lennie’s, 22. (7.) “Will, in the first person, promises.  In the second and third persons, it simply foretels.”—­Maltby’s Gram., p. 24. (8.) “Will, in the first person implies resolution and promising; in the second and third, it foretells.”—­Cooper’s New Gram., p. 51. (9.) “Will, in the first person singular and plural, promises or threatens; in the second and third persons, only foretels:  shall, on the contrary, in the first person, simply foretels; in the second and third persons, promises, commands, or threatens.”—­Adam’s Lat. and Eng.  Gram., p. 83. (10.) “In the first person shall foretels, and will promises or threatens; but in the second and third persons will foretels, and shall promises or threatens.”—­Blair’s Gram., p. 65.

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