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. “Richard’s restoration to respectability depends on his paying of his debts.”—­O.  B. Peirce cor. “Their supplying of ellipses where none ever existed; their parsing of the words of sentences already full and perfect, as though depending on words understood.”—­Id. “Her veiling of herself, and shedding of tears, &c., her upbraiding of Paris for his cowardice,” &c.—­Blair cor. “A preposition may be made known by its admitting of a personal pronoun after it, in the objective case.”—­Murray et al. cor. “But this forms no just objection to its denoting of time.”—­L.  Mur. cor. “Of men’s violating or disregarding of the relations in which God has here placed them.”—­Bp.  Butler cor. “Success, indeed, no more decides for the right, than a man’s killing of his antagonist in a duel.”—­Campbell cor. “His reminding of them.”—­Kirkham cor. “This mistake was corrected by his preceptor’s causing of him to plant some beans.”—­Id. “Their neglecting of this was ruinous.”—­Frost cor. “That he was serious, appears from his distinguishing of the others as ‘finite.’”—­Felch cor. “His hearers are not at all sensible of his doing of it.”  Or:—­“that he does it.”—­Sheridan cor.

UNDER NOTE III.—­CHANGE THE EXPRESSION.

“An allegory is a fictitious story the meaning of which is figurative, not literal; a double meaning, or dilogy, is the saying of only one thing, when we have two in view.”—­Phil.  Mu. cor. “A verb may generally be distinguished by the sense which it makes with any of the personal pronouns, or with the word TO, before it.”—­Murray et al. cor. “A noun may in general be distinguished by the article which comes before it, or by the sense which it makes of itself.”—­Merchant et al. cor. “An adjective may usually be known by the sense which it makes with the word thing; as, a good thing, a bad thing.”—­Iid. “It is seen to be in the objective case, because it denotes the object affected by the act of leaving.”—­O.  B. Peirce cor. “It is seen to be in the possessive case, because it denotes the possessor of something.”—­Id. “The noun MAN is caused by the adjective WHATEVER to seem like a twofold nominative, as if it denoted, of itself, one person as the subject of the two remarks.”—­Id. “WHEN, as used in the last line, is a connective, because it joins that line to the other part of the sentence.”—­Id.Because they denote reciprocation.”—­Id. “To allow them to make use of that liberty;”—­“To allow them to use that liberty;”—­or, “To allow them that liberty.”—­Sale

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