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.

Inclusive and exclusive terms of a comparison

Incorrigible errors, Crit.  N. concerning

Indefinite article, see An, A Indefinite pronouns, of the class pronom. adjectives

Independent, see Absolute

Index, or hand, use of

Indicative mood, defined
    —­Indic. mood, why so called; its nature and use
    —­use of its pres. tense
    —­do. of its form of the pluperf. in lieu of the pot. pluperf.
    —­wherein differs characteristically from the subj.; the two moods
      continually confounded by writers
    —­Indic. mood, format, and inflec. of its tenses shown in the verb
      LOVE, conjug.
    —­employed to express a conditional circumstance assumed as a fact

Inelegance of language, see Awkwardness.

Infinitive mood, defined
    —­Infin. mood, so called in oppos. to the other moods
    —­usually distinguished by the prep. to before it
    —­its pres., the ROOT, or radical verb; what time it expresses
    —­archaic form in en
    —­its two tenses shown in the verb LOVE, conjug. 
    —­Synt. of
    —­Infin. mood, by what governed; (see To:)
    —­true construc. of, explained by the 18th Rule of the Synt.
    —­why simple of solution in Eng.; whether ever governed by a prep, in
      Fr., Span., or Ital.
    —­whimsical account of, given by NIX.
    —­how expressed in the Anglo-Sax. of the 11th century
    —­why may not, as some grammarians teach, be | considered a noun
    —­DR. WILS. on the charac. and import of
    —­to what other terms may be connected
    —­what in its nature, and for what things chiefly may stand
    —­taken abstractly, as subject of finite verb
    —­Loose infinitives, improp. in precise language
    —­Infin. mood, position of
    —­misplacement of, to be avoided
    —­distinction of voice in, often disregarded, ("You are to BLAME;”)
      hypercrit. teachings of SANB. and BLAIR hereon
    —­Infin., after bid, dare, &c., without TO
    —­whether used with TO after have, help, and find
    —­Infin., BY WHAT governed, often imposs. to say, according to the
      instructions of MURR.
    —­Infinitives connected, governed by one preposition
    —­Infinitive, ellipsis of, after to, whether to be approved
    —­sometimes doubtful whether transitive or intransitive
    —­in pause, or in remote dependence, punct. of
    —­poet. placing of
    —­Greek construc. of, in poetic use

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