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.
cor. “If a gudgeon meet a roach, He ne’er will venture to approach.”  Or thus:  “If a gudgeon meets a roach, He dares not venture to approach.”—­Swift cor. “Which thou endeavourst to establish to thyself.”—­Barclay cor. “But they pray together much oftener than thou insinuat’st.”—­Id. “Of people of all denominations, over whom thou presidest.”—­N.  Waln cor. “I can produce ladies and gentlemen whose progress has been astonishing.”—­Chazotte cor. “Which of these two kinds of vice is the more criminal?”—­Dr. Brown cor. “Every twenty-four hours afford to us the vicissitudes of day and night.”—­Smith’s False Syntax, New Gram., p. 103.  Or thus:  “Every period of twenty-four hours affords to us the vicissitudes of day and night.”—­Smith cor. “Every four years add an other day.”—­Smith’s False Syntax, Gram., p. 103.  Better thus:  “Every fourth year adds an other day.”—­Smith cor. “Every error I could find, Has my busy muse employed.”—­Swift cor. “A studious scholar deserves the approbation of his teacher.”—­Sanborn cor. “Perfect submission to the rules of a school indicates good breeding.”—­Id. “A comparison in which more than two are concerned.”—­Lennie’s Gram., p. 78.  “By the facilities which artificial language affords them.”—­O.  B. Peirce cor. “Now thyself hast lost both lop and top.”—­Spencer cor. “Glad tidings are brought to the poor.”—­Campbell cor. “Upon which, all that is pleasurable or affecting in elocution, chiefly depends.”—­Sher. cor. “No pains have been spared to render this work complete.”—­Bullions cor. “The United States contain more than a twentieth part of the land of this globe.”—­Clinton cor. “I am mindful that myself am strong.”—­Fowler cor. “Myself am (not is) weak;”—­“Thyself art (not is) weak.”—­Id.

   “How pale each worshipful and reverend guest
    Rises from clerical or city feast!”—­Pope cor.

UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.—­VERB BEFORE THE NOMINATIVE.

“Where were you born?  In London.”—­Buchanan cor. “There are frequent occasions for commas.”—­Ingersoll cor. “There necessarily follow from thence these plain and unquestionable consequences.”—­Priestley cor. “And to this impression contributes the redoubled effort.”—­Kames cor. “Or, if he was, were there no spiritual men then?”—­Barclay cor. “So, by these two also, are signified their contrary principles.”—­Id. “In the motions made with the hands, consists the chief part of gesture in speaking.”—­Blair cor.Dares he assume the name of a popular magistrate?”—­Duncan cor. “There were no damages as in

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