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.
an other is allowed.”—­A.  Fuller cor. “And yet these two persons love each other tenderly.”—­E.  Reader cor. “In the six hundred and first year.”—­Bible cor. “Nor is this arguing of his, any thing but a reiterated clamour.”—­Barclay cor. “In several of them the inward life of Christianity is to be found.”—­Ib. “Though Alvarez, Despauter, and others, do not allow it to be plural.”—­R.  Johnson cor. “Even the most dissipated and shameless blushed at the sight.”—­Lempriere cor. “We feel a higher satisfaction in surveying the life of animals, than [in contemplating] that of vegetables.”—­ Jamieson cor. “But this man is so full-fraught with malice.”—­Barclay cor. “That I suggest some things concerning the most proper means.”—­Dr. Blair cor.

   “So, hand in hand, they passed, the loveliest pair
    That ever yet in love’s embraces met.”—­Milton cor.

    “Aim at supremacy; without such height,
    Will be for thee no sitting, or not long.”—­Id. cor.

CHAPTER V.—­PRONOUNS.

CORRECTIONS IN THE FORMS AND USES OF PRONOUNS.

LESSON I.—­RELATIVES.

While we attend to this pause, every appearance of singsong must be carefully avoided.”—­Murray cor. “For thou shalt go to all to whom I shall send thee.”—­Bible cor. “Ah! how happy would it have been for me, had I spent in retirement these twenty-three years during which I have possessed my kingdom.”—­Sanborn cor. “In the same manner in which relative pronouns and their antecedents are usually parsed.”—­Id. “Parse or explain all the other nouns contained in the examples, after the very manner of the word which is parsed for you.”—­Id. “The passive verb will always have the person and number that belong to the verb be, of which it is in part composed.”—­Id. “You have been taught that a verb must always agree in person and number with it subject or nominative.”—­Id. “A relative pronoun, also, must always agree in person, in number, and even in gender, with its antecedent.”—­Id. “The answer always agrees in case with the pronoun which asks the question.”—­Id.One sometimes represents an antecedent noun, in the definite manner of a personal pronoun.” [529]—­Id. “The mind, being carried forward to the time at which the event is to happen, easily conceives it to be present.”  “SAVE and SAVING are [seldom to be] parsed in the manner in which EXCEPT and EXCEPTING are [commonly explained].”—­Id. “Adverbs qualify verbs, or modify their

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