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.

“This sentence violates an established rule of grammar.”—­L.  Murray cor. “The words thou and shall are again reduced to syllables of short quantity.”—­Id. “Have the greatest men always been the most popular?  By no means.”—­Lieber cor. “St. Paul positively stated, that ’He that loveth an other, hath fulfilled the law.’”—­Rom., xiii, 8.  “More organs than one are concerned in the utterance of almost every consonant.”—­M’Culloch cor. “If the reader will pardon me for descending so low.”—­Campbell cor. “To adjust them in such a manner as shall consist equally with the perspicuity and the grace of the period.”  Or:  “To adjust them so, that they shall consist equally,” &c.—­Dr. Blair and L. Mur. cor. “This class exhibits a lamentable inefficiency, and a great want of simplicity.”—­Gardiner cor. “Whose style, in all its course, flows like a limpid stream, through which we see to the very bottom.”—­Dr. Blair cor.; also L.  Murray.  “We admit various ellipses.”  Or thus:  “An ellipsis, or omission, of some words, is frequently admitted.”—­Lennie’s Gram., p. 116.  “The ellipsis, of articles may occur thus.”—­L.  Murray cor. “Sometimes the article a is improperly applied to nouns of different numbers; as, ’A magnificent house and gardens.’”—­Id. “In some very emphatical expressions, no ellipsis should be allowed.”—­Id.Ellipses of the adjective may happen in the following manner.”—­Id. “The following examples show that there may be an ellipsis of the pronoun.”—­Id.Ellipses of the verb occur in the following instances.”—­Id.Ellipses of the adverb may occur in the following manner.”—­Id. “The following brief expressions are all of them elliptical.” [554]—­Id. “If no emphasis be placed on any words, not only will discourse be rendered heavy and lifeless, but the meaning will often be left ambiguous.”—­Id.; also J.  S. Hart and Dr. Blair cor. “He regards his word, but thou dost not regard thine.”—­Bullions, Murray, et al., cor. “I have learned my task, but you have not learned yours.”—­Iid. “When the omission of a word would obscure the sense, weaken the expression, or be attended with impropriety, no ellipsis must be indulged.”—­Murray and Weld cor. “And therefore the verb is correctly put in the singular number, and refers to them all separately and individually considered.”—­L.  Murray cor.He was to me the most intelligible of all who spoke on the subject.”—­Id. “I understood him better than I did any other who spoke on the subject.”—­Id. “The roughness found on the entrance into the

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