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.
“THAT, as a relative, seems to be introduced to prevent too frequent a repetition of WHO and WHICH.”—­Id. “A pronoun is a word used in stead of a noun, to prevent too frequent a repetition of it.”—­L.  Murray cor. “THAT is often used as a relative, to prevent too frequent a repetition of WHO and WHICH.”—­Id. et al. cor. “His knees smote one against the other.”—­Logan cor. “They stand now on one foot, then on the other.”—­W.  Walker cor. “The Lord watch between thee and me, when we are absent one from the other.”—­Bible cor. “Some have enumerated ten parts of speech, making the participle a distinct part.”—­L.  Murray cor. “Nemesis rides upon a hart because the hart is a most lively creature.”—­Bacon cor. “The transition of the voice from one vowel of the diphthong to the other.”—­Dr. Wilson cor. “So difficult it is, to separate these two things one from the other.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “Without a material breach of any rule.”—­Id. “The great source of looseness of style, in opposition to precision, is an injudicious use of what are termed synonymous words.”—­Blair cor.; also Murray.  “Sometimes one article is improperly used for the other.”—­Sanborn cor.

   “Satire of sense, alas! can Sporus feel? 
    Who breaks a butterfly upon the wheel?”—­Pope cor.

LESSON V.—­MIXED EXAMPLES.

“He hath no delight in the strength of a horse.”—­Maturin cor. “The head of it would be a universal monarch.”—­Butler cor. “Here they confound the material and the formal object of faith.”—­Barclay cor. “The Irish [Celtic] and the Scottish Celtic are one language; the Welsh, the Cornish, and the Armorican, are an other.”—­Dr. Murray cor. “In a uniform and perspicuous manner.”—­Id. “SCRIPTURE, n. Appropriately, and by way of distinction, the books of the Old and the New Testament; the Bible.”—­Webster cor. “In two separate volumes, entitled, ’The Old and New Testaments.’”—­Wayland cor. “The Scriptures of the Old and the New Testament, contain a revelation from God.”—­Id. “Q has always a u after it; which, in words of French origin, is not sounded.”—­Wilson cor. “What should we say of such a one? that he is regenerate?  No.”—­Hopkins cor. “Some grammarians subdivide the vowels into simple and compound.”—­L.  Murray cor. “Emphasis has been divided into the weaker and the stronger emphasis.”—­Id. “Emphasis has also been divided into the superior and the inferior emphasis.”—­Id. “Pronouns must agree with their antecedents, or the nouns which they represent, in gender,

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