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.
any image formed.”—­Kames cor. “Intrinsic beauty and relative beauty must be handled separately.”—­Id. “He should be on his guard not to do them injustice by disguising them or placing them in a false light.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “In perusing that work, we are frequently interrupted by the author’s unnatural thoughts.”—­L.  Murray cor. “To this point have tended all the rules which I have just given.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “To this point have tended all the rules which have just been given.”—­L.  Murray cor. “Language, as written, or as oral, is addressed to the eye, or to the ear.”—­Journal cor. “He will learn, Sir, that to accuse and to prove are very different.”—­Walpole cor. “They crowded around the door so as to prevent others from going out.”—­Abbott cor.A word denoting one person or thing, is of the singular number; a word denoting more than one person or thing:  is of the plural number.”—­J.  Flint cor. “Nouns, according to the sense or relation in which they are used, are in the nominative, the possessive, or the objective case:  thus, Nom. man.  Poss. man’s, Obj. man.”—­Rev. D. Blair cor. “Nouns or pronouns in the possessive case are placed before the nouns which govern them, and to which they belong.”—­Sanborn cor. “A teacher is explaining the difference between a noun and a verb.”—­Abbott cor. “And therefore the two ends, or extremities, must directly answer to the north and the south pole.”—­Harris cor. “WALKS or WALKETH, RIDES or RIDETH, and STANDS or STANDETH, are of the third person singular.”—­Kirkham cor. “I grew immediately roguish and pleasant, to a high degree, in the same strain.”—­Swift cor. “An Anapest has the first two syllables unaccented, and the last one accented.”—­Rev. D. Blair cor.; also Kirkham et al.; also L.  Mur. et al.  “But hearing and vision differ not more than words spoken and words written.”  Or:  “But hearing and vision do not differ more than spoken words and written.”—­Wilson cor. “They are considered by some authors to be prepositions.”—­Cooper cor. “When those powers have been deluded and have gone astray.”—­Phil Mu. cor. “They will understand this, and will like it.”—­Abbott cor. “They had been expelled from their native country Romagna.”—­Hunt cor. “Future time is expressed in two different ways.”—­Adam and Gould cor. “Such as the borrowing of some noted event from history.”—­Kames cor. “Every finite verb must agree with its nominative in number and person.”—­Bucke cor. “We are struck, we know not how, with the symmetry of any handsome thing we see.”—­L.  Murray cor. “Under this head, I shall consider
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