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. 182.  “To prevent it launching!”—­Ib., p. 135.  “Webster has been followed in preference to others, where it differs from them.”—­Frazee’s Gram., p. 8.  “Exclamation and Interrogation are often mistaken for one another.”—­Buchanan’s E. Syntax, p. 160.  “When all nature is hushed in sleep, and neither love nor guilt keep their vigils.”—­Felton’s Gram., p. 96.

   “When all nature’s hushed asleep,
    Nor love, nor guilt, their vigils keep.”—­Ib., p. 95.

LESSON II.—­ANY PARTS OF SPEECH.

“A VERSIFYER and POET are two different Things.”—­Brightland’s Gram., p. 163.  “Those Qualities will arise from the well expressing of the Subject.”—­Ib., p. 165.  “Therefore the explanation of network, is taken no notice of here.”—­Mason’s Supplement, p. vii.  “When emphasis or pathos are necessary to be expressed.”—­Humphrey’s Punctuation, p. 38.  “Whether this mode of punctuation is correct, and whether it be proper to close the sentence with the mark of admiration, may be made a question.”—­Ib., p. 39.  “But not every writer in those days were thus correct.”—­Ib., p. 59.  “The sounds of A, in English orthoepy, are no less than four.”—­Ib., p. 69.  “Our present code of rules are thought to be generally correct.”—­ Ib., p. 70.  “To prevent its running into another.”—­Humphrey’s Prosody, p. 7.  “Shakespeare, perhaps, the greatest poetical genius which England has produced.”—­Ib., p. 93.  “This I will illustrate by example; but prior to which a few preliminary remarks may be necessary.”—­Ib., p. 107.  “All such are entitled to two accents each, and some of which to two accents nearly equal.”—­Ib., p. 109.  “But some cases of the kind are so plain that no one need to exercise his judgment therein.”—­Ib., p. 122.  “I have forbore to use the word.”—­Ib., p. 127.  “The propositions, ’He may study,’ ‘He might study,’ ‘He could study,’ affirms an ability or power to study.”—­Hallock’s Gram. of 1842, p. 76.  “The divisions of the tenses has occasioned grammarians much trouble and perplexity.”—­Ib., p. 77.  “By adopting a familiar, inductive method of presenting this subject, it may be rendered highly attractive to young learners.”—­Wells’s Sch.  Gram., 1st Ed., p. 1; 3d, 9; 113th, 11.  “The definitions and rules of different grammarians were carefully compared with each other.”—­Ib., Preface, p. iii.  “So as not wholly to prevent some sounds issuing.”—­Sheridan’s Elements of English, p. 64.  “Letters of the Alphabet not yet taken notice of.”—­Ib., p. 11.  “IT is sad, IT is strange, &c., seems to express only that the thing is sad, strange, &c.”—­The Well-Wishers’ Gram., p. 68.  “THE WINNING is easier than THE PRESERVING a conquest.”—­Ib., p. 65.  “The United States finds itself

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