New Theories of Grammar: A Brief Review of Four Different Theories of English Grammar, Opposed to that of Murray. With an Appendix, Giving Some Account of Particles, Combinations, Auxiliaries, Ellipses, Idiomatic Phrases, &c

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J. Munroe, 1846 - 82 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 31 - The great deliverer he ! who from the gloom Of cloistered monks, and jargon-teaching schools, Led forth the true Philosophy, there long Held in the magic chain of words and forms, And definitions void : he led her forth, Daughter of Heaven ! that slow-ascending still, Investigating sure the chain of things, With radiant finger points to Heaven again.
Pàgina 81 - I. The predicate, like the subject, is either grammatical or logical. The grammatical predicate is either a verb alone, or the copula sum with a noun or adjective. The logical predicate consists of the grammatical predicate with its various modifications. Thus, Scipio fudit Annibalis copias, Scipio routed the forces of Hannibal.
Pàgina i - NEW THEORIES OF GRAMMAR. A Brief Review of four different Theories of English Grammar, opposed to that of Murray. With an Appendix, giving some Account of Particles, Combinations, Auxiliaries, Ellipses, Idiomatic Phrases, &c.
Pàgina 54 - RULE XVIII. Adjectives are used to modify the action of verbs, and to express the qualities of things in connection with the action by which they are produced.
Pàgina v - Thus all religions pretend to a divine origin ; and they all interdict the use of reason in the exatnination of their sacred titles. Each pretends to be the only true one, to the exclusion of all others. All menace with the wrath of heaven those who refuse to submit to their authority, and all acquire the character of falsehood by the palpable contradictions with which they are filled ; by the mis-shapen, obscure, and often odious ideas which they give of the Godhead ; by the whimsical laws which...
Pàgina 81 - Romanee condltor urbis erat. NOTE. If the grammatical predicate is not modified, it is the same as the logical predicate. II. The predicate also, like the subject, is either simple or compound. A simple predicate is one which contains a single finite* verb; as, Brevis est voluptas, Pleasure is brief.

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