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.

(7.) “He is not the person who it seemed he was.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 181; Ingersoll’s, p. 147.  “He is really the person who he appeared to be.”—­Same.  “She is not now the woman whom they represented her to have been.”—­Same.  “An only child, is one who has neither brother nor sister; a child alone, is one who is left by itself”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 98; Jamieson’s, 71; Murray’s Gram. 303.

UNDER NOTE VII.—­RELATIVE CLAUSES CONNECTED.

(1.) “A Substantive, or Noun, is the name of a thing; of whatever we conceive in any way to subsist, or of which we have any notion.”—­Lowth’s Gram., p. 14. (2.) “A Substantive or noun is the name of any thing that exists, or of which we have any notion.”—­L.  Murray’s Gram., p. 27; Alger’s, 15; Bacon’s, 9; E.  Dean’s, 8; A.  Flint’s, 10; Folker’s, 5; Hamlin’s, 9; Ingersoll’s, 14; Merchant’s, 25; Pond’s, 15; S.  Putnam’s, 10; Rand’s, 9; Russell’s, 9; T.  Smith’s, 12; and others. (3.) “A substantive or noun is the name of any person, place, or thing that exists, or of which we can have an idea.”—­Frost’s El. of E. Gram., p. 6. (4.) “A noun is the name of anything that exists, or of which we form an idea.”—­Hallock’s Gram., p. 37. (5.) “A Noun is the name of any person, place, object, or thing, that exists, or which we may conceive to exist.”—­D.  C. Allen’s Grammatic Guide, p. 19. (6.) “The name of every thing that exists, or of which we can form any notion, is a noun.”—­Fisk’s Murray’s Gram., p. 56. (7.) “An allegory is the representation of some one thing by an other that resembles it, and which is made to stand for it.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 341. (8.) “Had he exhibited such sentences as contained ideas inapplicable to young minds, or which were of a trivial or injurious nature.”—­Murray’s Gram., Vol. ii, p. v. (9.) “Man would have others obey him, even his own kind; but he will not obey God, that is so much above him, and who made him.”—­Penn’s Maxims. (10.) “But what we may consider here, and which few Persons have taken Notice of, is,” &c.—­Brightland’s Gram., p. 117. (11.) “The Compiler has not inserted such verbs as are irregular only in familiar writing or discourse, and which are improperly terminated by t, instead of ed.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 107; Fisk’s, 81; Hart’s, 68; Ingersoll’s, 104; Merchant’s, 63. (12.) “The remaining parts of speech, which are called the indeclinable parts, or that admit of no variations, will not detain us long.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 84.

UNDER NOTE VIII.—­THE RELATIVE AND PREPOSITION.

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