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.

5.  Of the VERB:—­“The world is crucified unto me, and I [am crucified] unto the world.”—­Gal., vi, 14.  “Hearts should not [differ], though heads may, differ.”—­Dillwyn, p. 11.  “Are ye not much better than they” [are]?—­Matt., vi, 26.  “Tribulation worketh patience; and patience [worketh] experience; and experience [worketh] hope.”—­Romans, v, 4.  “Wrongs are engraved on marble; benefits [are engraved] on sand.”—­Art of Thinking, p. 41.  “To whom thus Eve, yet sinless” [spoke].—­Milton.

6.  Of the PARTICIPLE:—­“That [being] o’er, they part.”—­“Animals of various natures, some adapted to the wood, and some [adapted] to the wave.”—­Melmoth, on Scripture, p. 13.

   “His knowledge [being] measured to his state and place,
    His time [being] a moment, and a point [being] his space.”—­Pope.

7.  Of the ADVERB:—­“He can do this independently of me, if not [independently] of you.”

   “She shows a body rather than a life;
    A statue, [rather] than a breather.”
        —­Shak., Ant. and Cleo., iii, 3.

8.  Of the CONJUNCTION:—­“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, [and] joy, [and] peace, [and] long suffering, [and] gentleness, [and] goodness, [and] faith, [and] meekness, [and] temperance.”—­Gal., v, 22.  The repetition of the conjunction is called Polysyndeton; and the omission of it, Asyndeton.

9.  Of the PREPOSITION:—­“It shall be done [on] this very day.”—­“We shall set off [at] some time [in] next month.”—­“He departed [from] this life.”—­“He gave [to] me a book.”—­“We walked [through] a mile.”—­“He was banished [from] the kingdom.”—­W.  Allen.  “He lived like [to] a prince.”—­Wells.

10.  Of the INTERJECTION:—­“Oh! the frailty, [oh!] the wickedness of men.”—­“Alas for Mexico! and [alas] for many of her invaders!”

11.  Of PHRASES or CLAUSES:—­“The active commonly do more than they are bound to do; the indolent [commonly do] less” [than they are bound to do].—­“Young men, angry, mean less than they say; old men, [angry, mean] more” [than they say].—­“It is the duty of justice, not to injure men; [it is the duty] of modesty, not to offend them.”—­W.  Allen.

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