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.
me!’ cries such a one.”—­Id. “The muse that soft and sickly woos the ear.”—­Pollok cor. “A man might better relate himself to a statue.”—­Bacon cor. “I heard thee say but now, thou liked not that.”—­Shak. cor. “In my whole course of wooing, thou criedst, (or, familiarly, thou cried,) Indeed!”—­Id. “But our ears have grown familiar with ’I have wrote, ‘I have drank,’ &c., which are altogether as ungrammatical.”—­Lowth et al. cor. “The court was in session before Sir Roger came”—­Addison cor. “She needs—­(or, if you please, need,—­) be no more with the jaundice possessed”—­Swift cor. “Besides, you found fault with our victuals one day when you were here.”—­Id. “If spirit of other sort, So minded, hath (or has) o’erleaped these earthy bounds.”—­Milton cor. “It would have been more rational to have forborne this.”—­Barclay cor. “A student is not master of it till he has seen all these.”—­Dr. Murray cor. “The said justice shall summon the party.”—­Brevard cor. “Now what has become of thy former wit and humour?”—­Spect. cor. “Young stranger, whither wanderst thou?”—­Burns cor. “SUBJ. Pres. If I love, If thou love, If he love. Imp. If I loved, If thou loved, If he loved.”—­Merchant cor. “SUBJ.  If I do not love, If thou do not love, If he do not love.”—­Id. “If he has committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.”—­Bible cor. “Subjunctive Mood of the verb to call, second person singular:  If thou call, (rarely, If thou do call,) If thou called.”—­Hiley cor. “Subjunctive Mood of the verb to love, second person singular:  If thou love, (rarely, If thou do love,) If thou loved.”—­Bullions cor. “I was; thou wast; he, she, or it, was:  We, you or ye, they, were.”—­White cor. “I taught, thou taughtest, (familiarly, thou taught,) he taught.”—­ Coar cor. “We say, ‘If it rain,’ ‘Suppose it rain?’ ‘Lest it rain,’ ‘Unless it rain.’ This manner of speaking is called the SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD.”—­Weld cor. “He has arrived at what is deemed the age of manhood.”—­Priestley cor. “He might much better have let it alone.”—­Tooke cor. “He were better without it.  Or:  He would be better without it.”—­Locke cor.Hadst thou not been by.  Or:  If thou hadst not been by.  Or, in the familiar style:  Had not thou been by,”—­Shak. cor. “I learned geography.  Thou learned arithmetic.  He learned grammar.”—­Fuller cor. “Till the sound has ceased.”—­Sheridan cor. “Present, die; Preterit, died; Perf.  Participle, died.”—­Six English Grammars corrected.

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