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.

“The subject is to be joined with its predicate.”—­Wilkins cor. “Every one must judge of his own feelings.”—­Byron cor. “Every one in the family should know his or her duty.”—­Penn cor. “To introduce its possessor into that way in which he should go.”—­Inf.  S. Gram. cor. “Do not they say, that every true believer has the Spirit of God in him?”—­Barclay cor. “There is none in his natural state righteous; no, not one.”—­Wood cor. “If ye were of the world, the world would love its own.”—­Bible cor. “His form had not yet lost all its original brightness.”—­Milton cor. “No one will answer as if I were his friend or companion.”—­Steele cor. “But, in lowliness of mind, let each esteem others better than himself.”—­Bible cor. “And let none of you imagine evil in his heart against his neighbour.”—­Id. “For every tree is known by its own fruit.”—­Id. “But she fell to laughing, like one out of his right mind.”—­M.  Edgeworth cor. “Now these systems, so far from having any tendency to make men better, have a manifest tendency to make them worse.”—­Wayland cor. “And nobody else would make that city his refuge any more.”—­Josephus cor. “What is quantity, as it respects syllables or words?  It is the time which a speaker occupies in pronouncing them.”—­Bradley cor. “In such expressions, the adjective so much resembles an adverb in its meaning, that it is usually parsed as such.”—­Bullions cor. “The tongue is like a racehorse; which runs the faster, the less weight he carries.”  Or thus:  “The tongue is like a racehorse; the less weight it carries, the faster it runs.”—­Addison, Murray, et al. cor. “As two thoughtless boys were trying to see which could lift the greatest weight with his jaws, one of them had several of his firm-set teeth wrenched from their sockets.”—­Newspaper cor. “Every body nowadays publishes memoirs; every body has recollections which he thinks worthy of recording.”—­Duchess D’Ab. cor. “Every body trembled, for himself, or for his friends.”—­Goldsmith cor.

   “A steed comes at morning:  no rider is there;
    But his bridle is red with the sign of despair.”—­Campbell cor.

UNDER NOTE I.—­PRONOUNS WRONG—­OR NEEDLESS.

“Charles loves to study; but John, alas! is very idle.”—­Merchant cor. “Or what man is there of you, who, if his son ask bread, will give him a stone?”—­Bible cor. “Who, in stead of going about doing good, are perpetually intent upon doing mischief.”—­Tillotson cor. “Whom ye delivered up, and denied in the presence of Pontius Pilate.”—­Bible cor. “Whom, when they had washed her,

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