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.
or emphasis to the expression.”—­P.  E. Day cor. “Whatsoever is incumbent upon a man to do, it is surely expedient to do well.”—­Adams cor. “The soul, which our philosophy divides into various capacities, is still one essence.”—­Channing cor. “Put the following words in the plural, and give the rule for forming it.”—­Bullions cor. “We will do it, if you wish.”—­Id. “He who does well, will be rewarded.”—­Id. “That which is always true, is expressed in the present tense.”—­Id. “An observation which is always true, must be expressed in the present tense.”—­Id. “That part of orthography which treats of combining letters to form syllables and words, is called SPELLING.”—­Day cor. “A noun can never be of the first person, except it is in apposition with a pronoun of that person.”—­Id. “When two or more singular nouns or pronouns refer to the same object, they require a singular verb and pronoun.”—­Id. “James has gone, but he will return in a few days.”—­Id. “A pronoun should have the same person, number, and gender, as the noun for which it stands.”—­Id. “Though he is out of danger, he is still afraid.”—­Bullions cor. “She is his inferior in sense, but his equal in prudence.”—­Murray’s Exercises, p. 6.  “The man who has no sense of religion, is little to be trusted.”—­Bullions cor. “He who does the most good, has the most pleasure.”—­Id. “They were not in the most prosperous circumstances, when we last saw them.”—­Id. “If the day continue pleasant, I shall return.”—­Felton cor. “The days that are past, are gone forever.”—­Id. “As many as are friendly to the cause, will sustain it.”—­Id. “Such as desire aid, will receive it.”—­Id. “Who gave you that book, which you prize so much?”—­Bullions cor. “He who made it, now preserves and governs it.”—­Id.

   “Shall he alone, whom rational we call,
    Be pleas’d with nothing, if not blest with all?”—­Pope.

UNDER THE EXCEPTIONS CONCERNING SIMPLE MEMBERS.

“Newcastle is the town in which Akenside was born.”—­Bucke cor. “The remorse which issues in reformation, is true repentance.”—­Campbell cor. “Men who are intemperate, are destructive members of community.”—­ Alexander cor. “An active-transitive verb expresses an action which extends to an object.”—­Felton cor. “They to whom much is given, will have much, to answer for.”—­L.  Murray cor. “The prospect which we have, is charming.”—­Cooper cor. “He is the person who informed me of the matter.”—­Id. “These are the trees that produce no fruit.”—­Id. “This is the book which treats of the subject.”—­Id. “The proposal was such as pleased me.”—­Id. “Those that sow in tears, shall reap in joy.”—­Id. “The pen with which I write, makes too large

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