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.
What says Rule 6th of Words put Absolute? 14.  What says Rule 7th of Words in Apposition? 15.  What says Rule 8th of Adjectives? 16.  What says Rule 9th of Finite Verbs? 17.  What says Rule 10th of Infinitives? 18.  What says Rule 11th of Participles? 19.  What says Rule 12th of Adverbs? 20.  What says Rule 13th of Conjunctions? 21.  What says Rule 14th of Prepositions? 22.  What says Rule 15th of Interjections? 23.  What says Rule 16th of Words Repeated? 24.  What says Rule 17th of Dependent Quotations?

LESSON II.—­OF THE COMMA.

1.  How many exceptions, or forms of exception, are there to Rule 1st for the comma? 2.—­to Rule 2d? 3.—­to Rule 3d? 4.—­to Rule 4th? 5.—­to Rule 5th? 6.—­to Rule 6th? 7.—­to Rule 7th? 8.—­to Rule 8th? 9.—­to Rule 9th? 10.—­to Rule 10th? 11.—­to Rule 11th? 12.—­to Rule 12th? 13.—­to Rule 13th? 14.—­to Rule 14th? 15.—­to Rule 15th? 16.—­to Rule 16th? 17.—­to Rule 17th? 18.  What says the Exception to Rule 1st of a Long Simple Sentence? 19.  What says Exception 1st to Rule 2d of Restrictive Relatives? 20.  What says Exception 2d to Rule 2d of Short Terms closely Connected? 21.  What says Exception 3d to Rule 2d of Elliptical Members United? 22.  What says Exception 1st to Rule 4th of Two Words with Adjuncts? 23.  What says Exception 2d to Rule 4th of Two Terms Contrasted? 24.  What says Exception 3d to Rule 4th of a mere Alternative of Words? 25.  What says Exception 4th to Rule 4th of Conjunctions Understood?

LESSON III.—­OF THE COMMA.

1.  What rule speaks of the separation of Words in Apposition? 2.  What says Exception 1st to Rule 7th of Complex Names? 3.  What says Exception 2d to Rule 7th of Close Apposition? 4.  What says Exception 3d to Rule 7th of a Pronoun without a Pause? 5.  What says Exception 4th to Rule 7th of Names Acquired? 6.  What says the Exception to Rule 8th of Adjectives Restrictive? 7.  What is the rule which speaks of a finite Verb Understood? 8.  What says the Exception to Rule 9th of a Very Slight Pause? 9.  What is the Rule for the pointing of Participles? 10.  What says the Exception to Rule 11th of Participles Restrictive?

[Now, if you please, you may correct orally, according to the formules given, some or all of the various examples of False Punctuation, which are arranged under the rules for the Comma in Section First.]

LESSON IV.—­OF THE SEMICOLON.

1.  What is the general use of the Semicolon? 2.  How many rules are there for the Semicolon? 3.  What are their heads? 4.  What says Rule 1st of Complex Members? 5.  What says Rule 2d of Simple Members? 6.  What says Rule 3d of Apposition, &c.?

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