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.
Works, iii, 280.  “Will he thence dare to say the apostle held another Christ than he that died?”—­Ib., iii, 414.  “What need you be anxious about this event?”—­Collier’s Antoninus, p. 188.  “If a substantive can be placed after the verb, it is active.”—­Alex.  Murray’s Gram., p. 31 “When we see bad men honoured and prosperous in the world, it is some discouragement to virtue.”—­L.  Murray’s Key, 8vo, p. 224.  “It is a happiness to young persons, when they are preserved from the snares of the world, as in a garden enclosed.”—­Ib., p. 171.  “The court of Queen Elizabeth, which was but another name for prudence and economy.”—­ Bullions, E. Gram., p. 24.  “It is no wonder if such a man did not shine at the court of Queen Elizabeth, who was but another name for prudence and economy.  Here which ought to be used, and not who.”—­Priestley’s Gram., p. 99; Fowler’s, Sec.488.  “Better thus; Whose name was but another word for prudence, &c.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 157; Fish’s, 115; Ingersoll’s, 221; Smith’s, 133; and others.  “A Defective verb is one that wants some of its parts.  They are chiefly the Auxiliary and Impersonal verbs.”—­Bullions, E. Gram., p. 31; Old Editions, 32.  “Some writers have given our moods a much greater extent than we have assigned to them.”—­Murray’s Gram., 8vo, p. 67.  “The Personal Pronouns give information which no other words are capable of conveying.”—­M’Culloch’s Gram., p. 37, “When the article a, an, or the precedes the participle, it also becomes a noun.”—­ Merchant’s School Gram., p. 93.  “There is a preference to be given to some of these, which custom and judgment must determine.”—­Murray’s Gram., 8vo, p. 107.  “Many writers affect to subjoin to any word the preposition with which it is compounded, or the idea of which it implies.”—­Ib., p. 200; Priestley’s Gram., 157.

   “Say, dost thou know Tectidius?—­Who, the wretch
    Whose lands beyond the Sabines largely stretch?”
        —­Dryden’s IV Sat. of Pers.

LESSON V.—­VERBS.

“We would naturally expect, that the word depend, would require from after it.”—­Murray’s Gram., 8vo, p. 201.  “A dish which they pretend to be made of emerald.”—­Murray’s Key, 8vo, p. 198.  “For the very nature of a sentence implies one proposition to be expressed.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 106.  “Without a careful attention to the sense, we would be naturally led, by the rules of syntax, to refer it to the rising and setting of the sun.”—­Ib., p. 105.  “For any rules that can be given, on this subject, are very general.”—­Ib., p. 125.  “He is in the right, if eloquence were what he conceives it to be.”—­Ib., p. 234.  “There I would prefer a more free and diffuse manner.”—­Ib., p. 178.  “Yet that they also agreed and resembled

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