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.
    —­Adverbs, whether sometimes qualify nouns
    —­of participles which become nouns, how managed
    —­above, then, &c., as relating directly to a noun, how parsed
    —­Adverbs, of degree, to what adjectives not applicable
    —­direct use of, for pronouns, inelegant
    —­position of
    —­needless use of, for adjectives
    —­hither, &c., for here, &c., with verb of motion
    —­hence, &c., with from prefixed
    —­when, &c., not to follow is in a definition ("Concord is WHEN,”
      &c.,)
    —­ever and never, to be carefully distinguished
    —­in ly, when preferable to other forms
    —­Adverb, appar. made object of a prep. ("At ONCE,”)
    —­emphatic, with verb of self-motion suppressed ("I’ll HENCE,”)
    —­Adverb HOW, misuse of ("He said HOW,” &c.,)
    —­NO, not to be used in reference to a verb or a part.
    —­Adverbial form or character, words of, how parsed
    —­Adverbs, punct. of
    —­Adverb, ellips. of, shown
    —­Adverbs, derivation of,
    —­many common Eng., of Anglo-Sax. origin
    —­poet. peculiarities in the use of
    —­peculiar use of those of two syllables in ly, by MILT. and his
      contemporaries
    —­Adverbial phrase, a needless and improper designation in analysis

Affectation of fine writing, PREC. against

Ago and since, difference between

AGREEMENT, of words, defined
    —­with what synonymous
    —­Agreement, how many of the parts of speech in Eng., incapable of;
      none necessary between words unrelated
    —­as differing from relation
    —­of words in the same construc., not easy to determine
    —­rules of, as applied to articles, impertinent
    —­Agreements, syntactical, in Eng., specified
    —­Agreement, general principles of
    —­figurative, of pronouns with antecedents

Ah, sometimes departs from usage

Alexandrine verse, description of

Alias, for the equivocal or, use of, in judicial proceedings

All, when may be reckoned a noun

Allegory, defined
    —­Allegory includes most parables of Script., and some fables

Alphabet, Eng., names and plur. numb. of the letters
    —­Hebrew, names and characters of, given,
    —­Greek, do. 
    —­Latin, names of the letters of, scarcely known even to the learned;
      account of its letters
    —­A perfect alphabet in Eng., what it would effect
    —­Letters of the alphabet, when and how used in the sciences

Alphabetic writing, its advantage over the syllabic

Ambiguous, construc., with respect to the class of a word
    —­do., with resp. to the case of a word
    —­expressions, PREC. against

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