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.
not every man is called James, nor every woman, Mary.”—­Buchanan cor. “Crotchets are employed for nearly the same purpose as the parenthesis.”—­Churchill cor. “There is a still greater impropriety in a double comparative.”—­Priestley cor. “We often have occasion to speak of time.”—­Lowth cor. “The following sentence cannot possibly be understood.”—­Id. “The words must generally be separated from the context.”—­Comly cor. “Words ending in ator, generally have the accent on the penultimate.”—­L.  Mur. cor. “The learned languages, with respect to voices, moods, and tenses, are, in general, constructed differently from the English tongue.”—­Id. “Adverbs seem to have been originally contrived to express compendiously, in one word, what must otherwise have required two or more.”—­Id. “But it is so, only when the expression can be converted into the regular form of the possessive case.”—­Id. “‘Enter boldly,’ says he, ’for here too there are gods.’”—­Harris cor. “For none ever work for so little a pittance that some cannot be found to work for less.”—­Sedgwick cor. “For sinners also lend to sinners, to receive again as much.”—­Bible cor. Or, as Campbell has it in his version:—­“that they may receive as much in return.”—­Luke, vi, 34.  “They must be viewed in exactly the same light.”—­L.  Murray cor. “If he speaks but to display his abilities, he is unworthy of attention.”—­Id.

UNDER NOTE II.—­ADVERBS FOR ADJECTIVES.

Upward motion is commonly more agreeable than motion downward.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “There are but two possible ways of justification before God.”—­Cox cor. “This construction sounds rather harsh.”—­Mur. and Ing. cor. “A clear conception, in the mind of the learner, of regular and well-formed letters.”—­C.  S. Jour. cor. “He was a great hearer of * * * Attalus, Sotion, Papirius, Fabianus, of whom he makes frequent mention.”—­L’Estrange cor. “It is only the frequent doing of a thing, that makes it a custom.”—­Leslie cor. “Because W. R. takes frequent occasion to insinuate his jealousies of persons and things.”—­Barclay cor. “Yet frequent touching will wear gold.”—­Shak. cor. “Uneducated persons frequently use an adverb when they ought to use an adjective:  as, ‘The country looks beautifully;’ in stead of beautiful.” [544]—­ Bucke cor. “The adjective is put absolute, or without its substantive.”—­Ash cor. “A noun or a pronoun in the second person, may be put absolute in the nominative case.”—­Harrison cor. “A noun or a pronoun, when put absolute with a participle,” &c.—­Id. and

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