Brown's Grammar Improved: The Institutes of English Grammar, Methodically Arranged : with Forms of Parsing and Correcting, Examples for Parsing, Questions for Examination, False Syntax for Correction, Exercises for Writing, Observations for the Advanced Student, Five Methods of Analysis, and a Key to the Oral Exercises : to which are Added Four Appendixes : Designed for the Use of Schools, Academies, and Private Learners |
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Page iii
... give law to language , but to teach it , agreeably to the best usage . The ultimate principle by which he must be governed , and with which his instructions must always accord , is that species of custom which critics denominate GOOD ...
... give law to language , but to teach it , agreeably to the best usage . The ultimate principle by which he must be governed , and with which his instructions must always accord , is that species of custom which critics denominate GOOD ...
Page iv
... give place to their whimsical theories ; others , with more success , not better deserved , have multiplied grammars ... gives law to language . 9. All science is laid in the nature of things ; and he only who seeks it there , can ...
... give place to their whimsical theories ; others , with more success , not better deserved , have multiplied grammars ... gives law to language . 9. All science is laid in the nature of things ; and he only who seeks it there , can ...
Page v
... give the word to the next , when any one errs ; and order the exercise in such a man- ner that either his own voice , or the example of his best scholars , may gradually cor- rect the ill habits of the awkward , till all learn to recite ...
... give the word to the next , when any one errs ; and order the exercise in such a man- ner that either his own voice , or the example of his best scholars , may gradually cor- rect the ill habits of the awkward , till all learn to recite ...
Page vi
... gives the greatest facility and skill in practice ; and grammar is best taught by that process which brings its doctrines most directly home to the habits as well as to the thoughts of the pupil - which the most effectually conquers ...
... gives the greatest facility and skill in practice ; and grammar is best taught by that process which brings its doctrines most directly home to the habits as well as to the thoughts of the pupil - which the most effectually conquers ...
Page vii
... gives the gender wrong , and in direct contradiction of what he says of the word , in his section on gender ; he gives the person wrong , as may be seen by the pronoun thou ; he re- peats the definite article three times unnecessarily ...
... gives the gender wrong , and in direct contradiction of what he says of the word , in his section on gender ; he gives the person wrong , as may be seen by the pronoun thou ; he re- peats the definite article three times unnecessarily ...
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according to Rule active-transitive verb adjective adjuncts adverb agree anapestic antecedent apposition auxiliary called classes clause comma common noun compound conjugated conjunction connected consonant construction defective verb degree derived diphthong ellipsis EXERCISE express FALSE SYNTAX finite verb FORMULE.-Not proper governed grammarians honour imperative mood Imperfect Tense improper diphthong indicative mood infinitive mood interjection interrogative irregular language learner LESSON letters loved meaning Murray neuter gender never nominative Note noun or pronoun objective OBSERVATIONS ON RULE parsing passion passive perfect participle Perfect Tense person or thing personal pronoun phrase Pluperfect Tense plural number possessive potential mood Praxis preceded prefixed Preperfect preposition Present Tense preterit principal reading relation require Saxon says second person singular semivowels sentence signifies simple singular number sometimes sound speech style subjunctive subjunctive mood syllable SYNTAX UNDER RULE term thee thing merely spoken tion triphthong virtue vowel wise words writing
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