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.
has this accident made me!’ crys such a one.”—­Ib., p. 60.  “The muse that soft and sickly wooes the ear.”—­Pollok, i, 13.  “A man were better relate himself to a statue.”—­Bacon. “I heard thee say but now, thou lik’dst not that.”—­Shak. “In my whole course of wooing, thou cried’st, Indeed!”—­Id. “But our ears are grown familiar with I have wrote, I have drank, &c., which are altogether as ungrammatical.”—­ Lowth’s Gram., p. 63; Churchill’s, 114.  “The court was sat before Sir Roger came.”—­Addison, Spect., No. 122.  “She need be no more with the jaundice possest.”—­Swift’s Poems, p. 346.  “Besides, you found fault with our victuals one day that you was here.”—­Ib., p. 333.  “If spirit of other sort, So minded, have o’erleap’d these earthy bounds.”—­Milton, P. L., B. iv, l. 582.  “It should have been more rational to have forborn this.”—­Barclay’s Works, Vol. iii, p. 265.  “A student is not master of it till he have seen all these.”—­Dr. Murray’s Life, p. 55.  “The said justice shall summons the party.”—­Brevard’s Digest. “Now what is become of thy former wit and humour?”—­Spect., No. 532.  “Young stranger, whither wand’rest thou?”—­Burns, p. 29.  “SUBJ.:  Pres. If I love, If thou lovest, If he love. Imp. If I loved, If thou lovedst, If he loved.”—­Merchant’s Gram., p. 51.  “SUBJ.:  If I do not love, If thou dost not love, If he does not love;” &c.—­Ib., p. 56.  “If he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.”—­James, v, 15.  “Subjunctive Mood of the verb to call, second person singular:  If Thou callest.  If Thou calledst.  If Thou hast called.  If Thou hadst called.  If Thou call.  If Thou shalt or wilt have called.”—­Hiley’s Gram., p. 41.  “Subjunctive Mood of the verb to love, second person singular:  If thou love.  If thou do love.  If thou lovedst.  If thou didst love.  If thou hast loved.  If thou hadst loved.  If thou shalt or wilt love.  If thou shalt or wilt have loved.”—­Bullions’s E. Gram., p. 46.  “I was; thou wast, or you was; he, she, or it was:  We, you or ye, they, were.”—­White, on the English Verb, p. 51.  “I taught, thou taughtedst, he taught.”—­Coar’s English Gram., p. 66.  “We say, if it rains, suppose it rains, lest it should rain, unless it rains.  This manner of speaking is called the SUBJUNCTIVE mode.”—­Weld’s Gram., 2d Ed., p. 72; Abridged Ed., 59.  “He is arrived at what is deemed the age of manhood.”—­Priestley’s Gram., 163.  “He had much better have let it alone.”—­Tooke’s Diversions, i, 43.  “He were better be without it.”—­Locke, on Education, p. 105.  “Hadest not thou been by.”—­Beauties of Shak., p. 107.  “I learned geography.  Thou learnedest arithmetick.  He learned grammar.”—­Fuller’s Gram., p. 34.  “Till the sound is ceased.”—­Sheridan’s Elocution, p. 126.  “Present, die; Preterit, died; Perf.  Participle, dead.”—­British Gram., p. 158; Buchanan’s, 58; Priestley’s, 48; Ash’s, 45; Fisher’s, 71; Bicknell’s, 73.

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