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.
(13.) “The Obelisk, which is made thus [Obelisk]; and the Parallels, which are made thus ||; and sometimes the letters of the alphabet; and also the Arabic figures; are used as references to notes in the margin, or at the bottom, of the page.”—­Id. (14.) “The note of interrogation should not be employed, where it is only said that a question has been asked, and where the words are not used as a question; as, ’The Cyprians asked me why I wept.’”—­Id. et al. cor. (15.) “The note of interrogation is improper after mere expressions of admiration, or of any other emotion, though they may bear the form of questions.”—­Iid. (16.) “The parenthesis incloses something which is thrown into the body of a sentence, in an under tone; and which affects neither the sense, nor the construction, of the main text.”—­Lowth cor. (17.) “Simple members connected by a relative not used restrictively, or by a conjunction that implies comparison, are for the most part divided by the comma.”—­Id. (18.) “Simple members, or sentences, connected as terms of comparison, are for the most part separated by the comma.”—­L.  Murray et al. cor. (19.) “Simple sentences connected by a comparative particle, are for the most part divided by the comma.”—­Russell cor. (20.) “Simple sentences or clauses connected to form a comparison, should generally be parted by the comma.”—­Merchant cor. (21.) “The simple members of sentences that express contrast or comparison, should generally be divided by the comma.”—­Jaudon cor. (22.) “The simple members of a comparative sentence, when they are long, are separated by a comma.”—­Cooper cor. (23.) “Simple sentences connected to form a comparison, or phrases placed in opposition, or contrast, are usually separated by the comma.”—­Hiley and Bullions cor. (24.) “On whichever word we lay the emphasis,—­whether on the first, the second, the third, or the fourth,—­every change of it strikes out a different sense.”—­L.  Murray cor. (25.) “To say to those who do not understand sea phrases, ‘We tacked to the larboard, and stood off to sea,’ would give them little or no information.”—­Murray and Hiley cor. (26.) “Of those dissyllables which are sometimes nouns and sometimes verbs, it may be observed, that the verb is commonly accented on the latter syllable, and the noun on the former.”—­L.  Murray cor. (27.) “And this gives to our language an advantage over most others, in the poetical or rhetorical style.”—­Id. et al. cor. (28.) “And this gives to the English language an advantage over most others, in the poetical and the rhetorical style.”—­Lowth cor. (29.) “The second and the third scholar may read the same sentence; or as many may repeat the text, as are necessary to teach it perfectly to the whole class.”—­Osborn cor.

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