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.
from his pocket.”—­Id. “The great constitutional feature of this institution being, that directly after the acrimony of the last election is over, the acrimony of the next begins.”—­Dickens cor. “His disregarding of his parents’ advice has brought him into disgrace.”—­Farnum cor. “Can you tell me why his father made that remark?”—­Id.Why does our teacher detain us so long?”—­Id. “I am certain that the boy said so.”—­Id. “WHICH means any thing or things before named; and THAT may represent any person or persons, thing or things, that have been speaking, spoken to, or spoken of.”—­Perley cor. “A certain number of syllables occurring in a particular order, form a foot. Poetic feet are so called because it is by their aid that the voice, as it were, steps along.”—­L.  Murray et al. cor.Questions asked by a principal verb only—­as, ’Teach I?’ ’Burns he?’ &c.,—­are archaisms, and now peculiar to the poets.”—­A.  Murray cor. “Tell whether the 18th, the 19th, the 20th, the 21st, the 22d, or the 23d rule is to be used, and repeat the rule.”—­Parker and Fox cor. “The resolution was adopted without much deliberation, and consequently caused great dissatisfaction.”  Or:  “The resolution, which caused great dissatisfaction, was adopted without much deliberation.”—­ Iid. “The man is now much noticed by the people thereabouts.”—­Webb’s Edward’s Gram. cor. “The sand prevents them from sticking to one an other.”—­Id. “Defective verbs are those which are used only in some of the moods and tenses.”—­Greenleaf’s Gram., p. 29; Ingersoll’s, 121; Smith’s, 90; Merchant’s, 64; Nutting’s, 68; L. Murray, Guy, Russell, Bacon, Frost, Alger, S. Putnam, Goldsbury, Felton, et al. cor. “Defective verbs are those which want some of the moods or tenses.”—­Lennie et al. cor. “Defective verbs want some of the parts common to other verbs.”—­Bullions cor. “A Defective verb is one that wants some of the parts common to verbs.”—­Id. “To the irregular verbs may be added the defective; which are not only irregular, but also wanting in some parts.”—­Lowth cor. “To the irregular verbs may be added the defective; which are not only wanting in some parts, but are, when inflected, irregular.”—­Churchill cor. “When two or more nouns occur together in the possessive case.”—­Farnum cor. “When several short sentences come together”—­Id. “Words are divided into ten classes, called Parts of Speech.”—­L.  Ainsworth cor. “A passive verb has its agent or doer always in the objective case, governed by a preposition.”—­Id. “I am surprised at your inattention.”—­Id. “SINGULAR:  Thou lovest, not You love.
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