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.
sake.”—­Ib., i, 435.  “So as to hold such bound in heaven, whom they bind on earth, and such loosed in heaven, whom they loose on earth.”—­Ib., i, 478.  “Now, if it be an evil to do any thing out of strife; then such things that are seen so to be done, are they not to be avoided and forsaken?”—­Ib., i, 522.  “All such who satisfy themselves not with the superficies of religion.”—­Ib., ii, 23.  “And he is the same in substance, what he was upon earth, both in spirit, soul and body.”—­Ib., iii, 98.  “And those that do not thus, are such, to whom the Church of Rome can have no charity.”—­Ib., iii, 204.  “Before his book he placeth a great list of that he accounts the blasphemous assertions of the Quakers.”—­Ib., iii, 257.  “And this is that he should have proved.”—­Ib., iii, 322.  “Three of which were at that time actual students of philosophy in the university.”—­Ib., iii, 180.  “Therefore it is not lawful for any whatsoever * * * to force the consciences of others.”—­Ib., ii, 13.  “What is the cause that the former days were better than these?”—­Eccl., vii, 10.  “In the same manner that the term my depends on the name books.”—­O.  B. Peirce’s Gram., p. 54.  “In the same manner as the term house depends on the relative near.”—­Ib., p. 58.  “James died on the day that Henry returned.”—­Ib., p. 177.

LESSON II.—­DECLENSIONS.

Other makes the plural others, when it is found without it’s substantive.”—­Priestley’s Gram., p. 12.

[FORMULE.—­Not proper, because the pronoun it’s is written with an apostrophe.  But, according to Observation 25th, on the Declensions of Pronouns, “The possessive case of pronouns should never be written with an apostrophe.”  Therefore, this apostrophe should be omitted; thus, “Other makes the plural others, when it is found without its substantive.”]

“But his, her’s, our’s, your’s, their’s, have evidently the form of the possessive case.”—­Lowth’s Gram., p. 23.  “To the Saxon possessive cases, hire, ure, eower, hira, (that is, her’s, our’s, your’s, their’s,) we have added the s, the characteristic of the possessive case of nouns.”—­Ib., p. 23.  “Upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both their’s and our’s.”—­FRIENDS’ BIBLE:  1 Cor., i, 2.  “In this Place His Hand is clearly preferable either to Her’s or It’s.” [220]—­Harris’s Hermes, p. 59.  “That roguish leer of your’s makes a pretty woman’s heart ake.”—­ADDISON:  in Joh.  Dict. “Lest by any means this liberty of your’s become a stumbling-block.”—­FRIENDS’ BIBLE:  1 Cor., viii, 9.  “First person:  Sing.  I, mine, me; Plur. we, our’s, us.”—­Wilbur and Livingston’s Gram., p. 16.  “Second person:  Sing. thou, thine, thee; Plur. ye or you, your’s,

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