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.
grammarians into concord and governm., and yet
      treated by them without regard to such division,
    —­common fault of grammarians, noticed, of joining together diff. parts
      of speech in the same rule of,
    —­do., of making the rules of, double or triple in their form,
    —­whether the principles of etymol. affect those of. 
    —­All synt., on what founded. 
    —­Why BROWN deemed it needful to add to his code of synt. a GENERAL
      RULE and CRITICAL NOTES.  Figures of syntax.

T.

T, name and plur. numb. of,
    —­substitution of, for ed, how far allowable,
    —­sounds of,
    —­is seldom silent; in what words not sounded. Th, ([Greek:  Th],
      [Greek:  alt-th], or [Greek:  alt2-th], Gr.,) what represents; how was
      represented in Anglo-Sax., and to what sounds applied; the two sounds
      of. To a Tee, the colloq. phrase, explained.

Tautology of expression or of sentiment, a fault opposed to precision.

Teacher, what should be his aim with respect to gram.

Technical terms, unnec. use of, as opposed to propriety. Technically, words and signs taken, how to be construed.

Tenses, term defined.
    —­Tenses, the difierent, named and defined,
    —­whether the names of, are approp., or whether they should be changed,
    —­whether all express time with equal precision,
    —­who reckon only three, and who two; who still differently and
      variously name their tenses,
    —­Tenses, past and present, occurring together.  See Present Tense,
      Imperf.  Tense, &c.

Terminating a sentence with a prep. or other small particle

Terminations, of words, separated in syllabicat.
    —­of verbs, numb. of different, in each tense
    —­of the Eng. verb; DR. A. MURR. account of
    —­tendency of the lang. to lay aside the least agreeable
    —­usage of famil. discourse in respect to those of second pers. sing.
    —­verbal or particip., how are found written in old books
    —­the only reg. ones added to Eng. verbs; utterance of ed and edst
    —­ed, participial, and n, verbal, WALK. on the contrac. of
    —­Termination t, for ed, forced and irreg.

Terms of relation, see Relation. Tetrameter line, iambic, examples
of
    —­a favorite with many Eng. writers; BUTL.  Hudib., GAY’S Fab., and most
      of SCOTT’S poems, writt. in couplets of this meas.
    —­admits the doub. rhyme adapted to familiar and burlesque style
    —­trochaic, examples of
    —­character of do. 
    —­EVERETT’S fanciful notions about do.
    —­anapestic, examples of
    —­L.  HUNT’S “Feast of the Poets,” an extended examp. of do.
    —­dactylic, examples of

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