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.
Gram., p. 66.  “There has not been introduced into the foregoing pages any reasons for the classifications therein adopted.”—­Ib., p. 80.  “There must be a comma before the verb, as well as between each nominative case.”—­Ib., p. 98. “Yon, with former and latter, are also adjectives.”—­Brace’s Gram., p. 17.  “You was.”—­Ib., p. 32.  “If you was.”—­Ib., p. 39.  “Two words which end in ly succeeding each other are indeed a little offensive to the ear.”—­Ib., p. 85; Lennie’s Gram., p. 102.

   “Is endless life and happiness despis’d? 
    Or both wish’d here, where neither can be found?”—­Young, p. 124.

EXERCISE XI.—­PROMISCUOUS.

“Because any one of them is placed before a noun or pronoun, as you observe I have done in every sentence.”—­Rand’s Gram., p. 74. “Might accompany is a transitive verb, because it expresses an action which effects the object me.”—­Gilbert’s Gram., p. 94. “Intend is an intransitive verb because it expresses an action which does not effect any object.”—­Ib., p. 93.  “Charles and Eliza were jealous of one another.”—­J.  M. Putnam’s Gram., p. 44.  “Thus one another include both nouns.”—­Ibid. “When the antecedent is a child, that is elegantly used in preference to who, whom, or which.”—­Sanborn’s Gram., p. 94.  “He can do no more in words, but make out the expression of his will.”—­Bp.  Wilkins.  “The form of the first person plural of the imperative, love we, is grown obsolete.”—­ Lowth’s Gram., p. 38.  “Excluding those verbs which are become obsolete.”—­Priestley’s Gram., p. 47.  “He who sighs for pleasure, the voice of wisdom can never reach, nor the power of virtue touch.”—­Wright’s Athens, p. 64.  “The other branch of wit in the thought, is that only which is taken notice of by Addison.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., i, 312.  “When any measure of the Chancellor was found fault with.”—­Professors’ Reasons, p. 14. “Whether was formerly made use of to signify interrogation.”—­ Murray’s Gram., p. 54.  “Under the article of Pronouns the following words must be taken notice of.”—­Priestley’s Gram., p. 95.  “In a word, we are afforded much pleasure, to be enabled to bestow our most unqualified approbation on this excellent work.”—­Wright’s Gram., Rec., p. 4.  “For Recreation is not being Idle, as every one may observe.”—­Locke, on Ed., p. 365.  “In the easier valuing and expressing that sum.”—­Dilworth’s Arith., p. 3.  “Addition is putting together of two or more numbers.”—­ Alexander’s Arith., p. 8.  “The reigns of some of our British Queens may fairly be urged in proof of woman being capable of discharging the most arduous and complicated duties of government.”—­West’s

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