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.
God:  Nineveh repented, and was spared.”—­Observer cor. “These are well-pleasing to God, in all ranks and relations.”—­Barclay cor. “Whosoever cometh anything near unto the tabernacle.”—­Bible cor. “The words coalesce, when they have a long-established association.”—­Mur. cor. “Open to me the gates of righteousness:  I will go into them.”—­MODERN BIBLE:  Ps. cxviii, 19.  “He saw an angel of God coming in to him.”—­Acts, x, 3.  “The consequences of any action are to be considered in a twofold light.”—­Wayland cor. “We commonly write twofold, threefold, fourfold, and so on up to tenfold, without a hyphen; and, after that, we use one.”—­G.  Brown.  “When the first mark is going off, he cries, Turn! the glassholder answers, Done!”—­Bowditch cor. “It is a kind of familiar shaking-hands (or shaking of hands) with all the vices.”—­Maturin cor. “She is a good-natured woman;”—­“James is self-opinionated;”—­“He is broken-hearted.”—­Wright cor. “These three examples apply to the present-tense construction only.”—­Id. “So that it was like a game of hide-and-go-seek.”—­Gram. cor.

   “That lowliness is young ambition’s ladder,
    Whereto the climber-upward turns his face.”—­Shak.

RULE IV.—­ELLIPSES.

“This building serves yet for a schoolhouse and a meeting-house.”—­G.  Brown.  “Schoolmasters and schoolmistresses, if honest friends, are to be encouraged.”—­Discip. cor. “We never assumed to ourselves a faith-making or a worship-making power.”—­Barclay cor.Potash and pearlash are made from common ashes.”—­Webster cor. “Both the ten-syllable and the eight-syllable verses are iambics.”—­Blair cor. “I say to myself, thou say’st to thyself, he says to himself, &c.”—­Dr. Murray cor. “Or those who have esteemed themselves skillful, have tried for the mastery in two-horse or four-horse chariots.”—­Ware cor. “I remember him barefooted and bareheaded, running through the streets.”—­Edgeworth cor. “Friends have the entire control of the schoolhouse and dwelling-house.”  Or:—­“of the schoolhouses and dwelling-houses” Or:—­“of the schoolhouse and the dwelling-houses” Or:—­“of the schoolhouses and the dwelling-house.”  Or:—­“of the school, and of the dwelling-houses.” [For the sentence here to be corrected is so ambiguous, that any of these may have been the meaning intended by it.]—­The Friend cor. “The meeting is held at the first-mentioned place in Firstmonth; at the last-mentioned, in Secondmonth; and so on.”—­Id.

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