The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown (free ebook reader .txt) 📕

of the trial."—Duncan cor. "Can any thing show your Holiness how unworthily you treat mankind?"—Spect. cor. "In what other, consistently with reason and common sense, can you go about to explain it to him?"—Lowth cor. "Agreeably to this rule, the short vowel Sheva has two characters."—Wilson cor. "We shall give a remarkably fine example of this figure."—See Blair's Rhet., p. 156. "All of which is most abominably false."—Barclay cor. "He heaped up great riches, but passed his time miserably."—Murray cor. "He is never satisfied with expressing any thing clearly and simply."—Dr. Blair cor. "Attentive only to exhibit his ideas clearly and exactly, he appears dry."—Id. "Such words as have the most liquids and vowels, glide the most softly." Or: "Where liquids and vowels most abound, the utterance is softest."—Id. "The simplest points, such as are most easily apprehended."—Id. "Too historical to be accounted a perfectly regular epic poem."—Id. "Putting after them the oblique case, agreeably to the French construction."—Priestley cor. "Where the train proceeds with an extremely slow pace."—Kames cor. "So as scarcely to give an appearance of succession."—Id. "That concord between sound and sense, which is perceived in some expressions, independently of artful pronunciation."—Id. "Cornaro had become very corpulent, previously to the adoption of his temperate habits."—Hitchcock cor. "Bread, which is a solid, and tolerably hard, substance."—Day cor. "To command every body that was not dressed as finely as himself."—Id. "Many of them have scarcely outlived their authors."—J. Ward cor. "Their labour, indeed, did not penetrate very deeply."—Wilson cor. "The people are miserably poor, and subsist on fish."—Hume cor. "A scale, which I took great pains, some years ago, to make."—Bucke cor. "There is no truth on earth better established than the truth of the Bible."—Taylor cor. "I know of no work more wanted than the one which Mr. Taylor has now furnished."—Dr. Nott cor. "And therefore their requests are unfrequent and reasonable."—Taylor cor. "Questions are more easily proposed, than answered rightly."—Dillwyn cor. "Often reflect on the advantages you possess, and on the source from which they are all derived."—Murray cor. "If there be no special rule which requires it to be put further forward."—Milnes cor. "The masculine and the neuter have the same dialect in all the numbers, especially when they end alike."—Id.

   "And children are more busy in their play
    Than those that wiseliest pass their time away."—Butler cor.

CHAPTER IX.—CONJUNCTIONS. CORRECTIONS IN THE USE OF CONJUNCTIONS.

"A Verb is so called from the Latin verbum, a word."—Bucke cor. "References are often marked by letters or figures."—Adam and Gould cor. (1.) "A Conjunction is a word which joins words or sentences together."—Lennie, Bullions and Brace, cor. (2.) "A Conjunction is used to connect words or sentences together."—R. C. Smith cor. (3.) "A Conjunction is used to connect words or sentences."—Maunder cor. (4.) "Conjunctions are words used to join words or sentences."—Wilcox cor. (5.) "A Conjunction is a word used to connect words or sentences."—M'Culloch, Hart, and Day, cor. (6.) "A Conjunction joins words or sentences together."—Macintosh and Hiley cor. (7.) "The Conjunction joins words or sentences together."—L. Murray cor. (8.) "Conjunctions connect words or sentences to each other."—Wright cor. (9.) "Conjunctions connect words or sentences."—Wells and Wilcox cor. (10.) "The conjunction is a part of speech, used to connect words or sentences."—Weld cor. (11.) "A conjunction is a word used to connect words or sentences together."—Fowler cor. (12.) "Connectives are particles that unite words or sentences in construction."—Webster cor. "English Grammar is miserably taught in our district schools; the teachers know little or nothing about it."—J. O. Taylor cor. "Lest, instead of preventing diseases, you draw them on."—Locke cor. "The definite article the is frequently applied to adverbs in the comparative or the superlative degree."—Murray et al. cor. "When nouns naturally neuter are assumed to be masculine or feminine."—Murray cor. "This form of the perfect tense represents an action as completely past, though often as done at no great distance of time, or at a time not specified."—Id. "The Copulative Conjunction serves to connect words or clauses, so as to continue a sentence, by expressing an addition, a supposition, a cause, or a consequence."—Id. "The Disjunctive Conjunction serves, not only to continue a sentence by connecting its parts, but also to express opposition of meaning, either real or nominal."—Id. "If we open the volumes of our divines, philosophers, historians, or artists, we shall find that they abound with all the terms necessary to communicate the observations and discoveries of their authors."—Id. "When a disjunctive conjunction occurs between a singular noun or pronoun and a plural one, the verb is made to agree with the plural noun or pronoun."—Murray et al. cor. "Pronouns must always agree with their antecedents, or the nouns for which they stand, in gender and number."—Murray cor. "Neuter verbs do not express action, and consequently do not govern nouns or pronouns."—Id. "And the auxiliary of the past imperfect as well as of the present tense."—Id. "If this rule should not appear to apply to every example that has been produced, or to others which might be cited."—Id. "An emphatical pause is made, after something of peculiar moment has been said, on which we desire to fix the hearer's attention."—Murray and Hart cor. "An imperfect[531] phrase contains no assertion, and does not amount to a proposition, or sentence."—Murray cor. "The word was in the mouth of every one, yet its meaning may still be a secret."—Id. "This word was in the mouth of every one, and yet, as to its precise and definite idea, this may still be a secret,"—Harris cor. "It cannot be otherwise, because the French prosody differs from that of every other European language."—Smollet cor. "So gradually that it may be engrafted on a subtonic."—Rush cor. "Where the Chelsea and Malden bridges now are." Or better: "Where the Chelsea or the Malden bridge now is."—Judge Parker cor. "Adverbs are words added to verbs, to participles, to adjectives, or to other adverbs."—R. C. Smith cor. "I could not have told you who the hermit was, or on what mountain he lived."—Bucke cor. "AM and BE (for they are the same verb) naturally, or in themselves, signify being."—Brightland cor. "Words are signs, either oral or written, by which we express our thoughts, or ideas."—Mrs. Bethune cor. "His fears will detect him, that he shall not escape."—Comly cor. "Whose is equally applicable to persons and to things"—Webster cor. "One negative destroys an other, so that two are equivalent to an affirmative."—Bullions cor.

"No sooner does he peep into the world, Than he has done his do."—Hudibras cor.

CHAPTER X.—PREPOSITIONS. CORRECTIONS IN THE USE OF PREPOSITIONS.

"Nouns are often formed from participles."—L. Murray corrected. "What tenses are formed from the perfect participle?"—Ingersoll cor. "Which tense is formed from the present, or root of the verb?"—Id. "When a noun or a pronoun is placed before a participle, independently of the rest of the sentence."—Churchill's Gram., p. 348. "If the addition consists of two or more words."—Mur. et al. cor. "The infinitive mood is often made absolute, or used independently of the rest of the sentence."—Lowth's Gram., 80; Churchill's, 143; Bucke's, 96; Merchant's, 92. "For the great satisfaction of the reader, we shall present a variety of false constructions."—Murray cor. "For your satisfaction, I shall present you a variety of false constructions."— Ingersoll cor. "I shall here present [to] you a scale of derivation."— Bucke cor. "These two manners of representation in respect to number."—Lowth and Churchill cor. "There are certain adjectives which seem to be derived from verbs, without any variation."—Lowth cor. "Or disqualify us for receiving instruction or reproof from others."—Murray cor. "For being more studious than any other pupil in the school."— Id. "Misunderstanding the directions, we lost our way."—Id. "These people reduced the greater part of the island under their own power."— Id. "The principal accent distinguishes one syllable of a word from the rest."—Id. "Just numbers are in unison with the human mind."—Id. "We must accept of sound in stead of sense."—Id. "Also, in stead of consultation, he uses consult."—Priestley cor. "This ablative seems to be governed by a preposition understood."—W. Walker cor. "Lest my father hear of it, by some means or other."—Id. "And, besides, my wife would hear of it by some means."—Id. "For insisting on a requisition so odious to them."—Robertson cor. "Based on the great self-evident truths of liberty and equality."—Manual cor. "Very little knowledge of their nature is acquired from the spelling-book."—Murray cor. "They do not cut it off: except from a few words; as, due, duly, &c."—Id. "Whether passing at such time, or then finished."—Lowth cor. "It hath disgusted hundreds with that confession."—Barclay cor. "But they have egregiously fallen into that inconveniency."—Id. "For is not this, to set nature at work?"—Id. "And, surely, that which should set all its springs at work, is God."—Atterbury cor. "He could not end his treatise without a panegyrie on modern learning."—Temple cor. "These are entirely independent of the modulation of the voice."—J. Walker cor. "It is dear at a penny. It is cheap at twenty pounds."—W. Walker cor. "It will be despatched, on most occasions, without resting."—Locke cor. "Oh the pain, the bliss of dying!"—Pope. "When the objects or the facts are presented to him."—R. C. Smith cor. "I will now present you a synopsis."—Id. "The disjunctive conjunction connects words or sentences, and suggests an opposition of meaning, more or less direct."—Id. "I shall now present to you a few lines."—Bucke cor. "Common names, or substantives, are those which stand for things assorted."—Id. "Adjectives, in the English language, are not varied by genders, numbers, or cases; their only inflection is for the degrees of comparison."—Id. "Participles are [little more than] adjectives formed from verbs."—Id. "I do love to walk out on a fine summer evening."—Id. "Ellipsis, when applied to grammar, is the elegant omission of one or more words of a sentence."—Merchant cor. "The preposition to is generally required before verbs in the infinitive mood, but after the following verbs it is properly omitted; namely, bid, dare, feel, need, let, make, hear, see: as, 'He bid me do it;' not, 'He bid me to do it.'"—Id. "The infinitive sometimes follows than, for the latter term of a comparison; as, ['Murray should have known better than to write, and Merchant, better than to copy, the text here corrected, or the ambiguous example they appended to it.']"—Id. "Or, by prefixing the adverb more or less, for the comparative, and most or least, for the superlative."—Id. "A pronoun is a word used in stead of a noun."—Id. "From monosyllables, the comparative is regularly formed by adding r or er."—Perley cor. "He has particularly named these, in distinction from others."—Harris cor. "To revive the decaying taste for ancient literature."—Id. "He found the greatest difficulty in writing."—Hume cor.

   "And the tear, that is wiped with a little address,
    May be followed perhaps by a smile."—Cowper, i, 216.

CHAPTER XI.—INTERJECTIONS. CORRECTIONS IN THE USE OF INTERJECTIONS.

"Of chance or change, O let not man complain."—Beattie's Minstrel, B. ii, l. 1. "O thou persecutor! O ye hypocrites!"—Russell's Gram., p. 92. "O thou my voice inspire, Who touch'd Isaiah's hallow'd lips with fire!"—Pope's Messiah. "O happy we! surrounded by so many blessings!"—Merchant cor. "O thou who art so unmindful of thy duty!"—Id. "If I am wrong, O teach my heart To find that better way."—Murray's Reader, p. 248. "Heus! evocate huc Davum."—Ter. "Ho! call Davus out hither."—W. Walker cor. "It was represented by an analogy (O how inadequate!) which was borrowed from the ceremonies of paganism."—Murray cor. "O that Ishmael might live before thee!"—Friends' Bible, and Scott's. "And he said unto him, O let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak."—Alger's Bible, and Scott's. "And he said, O let not the Lord be angry."—Alger; Gen., xviii. 32. "O my Lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word."—Scott's Bible. "O Virtue! how amiable thou art!"—Murray's Gram., p. 128. "Alas! I fear for life."—See Ib. "Ah me! they little know How dearly I abide that boast so vain!"—See Bucke's Gram., p. 87. "O that I had digged myself a cave!"—Fletcher cor. "Oh, my good lord! thy comfort comes too late."—Shak. cor. "The vocative takes no article: it is distinguished thus: O Pedro! O Peter! O Dios! O God!"—Bucke cor. "Oho! But, the relative is always the same."—Cobbett cor. "All-hail, ye happy men!"—Jaudon cor. "O that I had wings like a dove!'—Scott's Bible. "O glorious hope! O bless'd abode!"—O. B. Peirce's Gram., p. 304. "Welcome friends! how joyous is your presence!"—T. Smith cor. "O blissful days!—but, ah! how soon ye pass!"—Parker and Fox cor.

   "O golden days! O bright unvalued hours!—
    What bliss, did ye but know that bliss, were yours!"—Barbauld cor.

    "Ah me! what perils do environ
    The man that meddles with cold iron!"—Hudibras cor.

THE KEY.—PART III.—SYNTAX. CHAPTER I.—SENTENCES.

The first chapter of Syntax, being appropriated to general views of this part of grammar, to an exhibition of its leading doctrines, and to the several forms of sentential analysis, with an application of its principal rules in parsing, contains no false grammar for