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.
    —­change of anteced. to accord with
    —­agreem. with collective nouns
    —­do. with joint antecedents
    —­do. with connected antecedents in apposition
    —­do. with connected antecedents emphat. distinguished
    —­do. with connected antecedents preceded by each, every, or no
    —­do. with connected antecedents of different persons
    —­agreeing with implied nominatives
    —­agreem. with disjunct antecedents
    —­what agreem. with disjunct. antecedents of different persons,
      numbers, and genders
    —­do. with antecedents taken affirmatively and negatively
    —­do. with two antecedents connected by as well as, &c.
    —­ellips. of, shown
    —­punct. of, without pause
    —­Pronouns, derivation of, from Sax.
    —­poet. peculiarities of

Pronunciation, importance of an early habit of distinct
    —­how best taught to children
    —­Pronunc., as distinguished from elocution, what; how differs from
      articulation
    —­Pronunc. of the Eng. lang., what knowledge requires; its
      difficulties; whether we have any system of, worthy to be accounted a
      STANDARD

Proof-texts, not to be perverted in the quotation, Crit.  N.
    —­not quoted, but invented, by some, in their false illustrations
      of gram.

Proper names begin with capitals
    —­Comm. and proper name associated, how written
    —­Prop. names, derivatives from, do.
    —­(Names of Deity, see Deity.)
    —­Prop. names, application of rule concerning; distinc. between do.
      and common appellatives
    —­of places, comparative difficulty of writing them
    —­modern compound, sparing use of hyphen in
    —­Prop. names, what their relative importance in lang.
    —­structure and signif. of; how should be written
    —­of plur. form, preceded by def. art.
    —­Prop. name, with def. art., acquires the import of a comm.
    —­Proper, from a comm. noun personified
    —­Prop. names of individuals, strictly used as such, have no plur.;
      prop. name, how made plur., and how then considered
    —­when they form a plur., how form it
    —­of persons, generally designate their sex
    —­Prop. name, in appos. with an appellative
    —­represented by which, ("Herod
    —­WHICH is,” &c.)
    —­Prop. name and title, when taken together in a plur. sense, in
      what form to be written

Property, the relation of, how may be otherwise expressed than by the poss. case

Prophecy, the past tenses substituted for the fut., in the lang. of

Propositions, permanent, in what tense should be expressed

Propriety, as a quality of style, in what consists
    —­its oppos., impropriety, what embraces
    —­Precepts aiming at offences against

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