English grammar, adapted to the different classes of learner : with an appendix, containing rules and observations for assisting the more advanced students.

Murray, Lindley, 1745-1826.

Published by Philadelphia : Printed and Published by S. Probasco, no.26 North Front Street, [Stereotyped by L. Johnson], (1795), 1829., 1829

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9th edition ; 232 pp. ; 17 cm. ; LC: PE1109 ; similar to OCLC: 244387642 ; Contents: Orthography -- Etymology -- Syntax -- Prosody: Of Pronunciation, Of Punctuation -- Appendix: Rules and Observations for Promoting Persicuity and Accuracy in Writing ; "Many English grammarians, and Murray at their head, deny the first person of nouns, and the gender of pronouns of the first and second persons; and at the same time teach, that, 'Pronouns must always agree with their antecedents, and the nouns for which they stand, in gender, number, and person:. .and further, with redundance of expression, that, 'The relative is of the same person with the antecedent, and the verb agrees with it accordingly.'.These quotations form Murray's fifth rule of syntax, as it stands in his early editions. In some of his revisings, the author erased the word person from the former sentence, and changed with to as in the latter. But other pronouns than relatives, agree with their nouns in person; so that his first alteration was not for the better, though IngersolL, Kirkharn, Alger, Bacon, J. Greenleaf, and some others, have been very careful to follow him in it. And why did he never discern, that the above-named principles of his etymology are both of them contradicted by this rule of his syntax, and one of them by his rule as it now stands? It is manifest, that no two words can possibly agree in any property which belongs not to both. Else what is agreement? Nay, no two things in nature, can in any wise agree, accord, or be alike, but by having some quality or accident in common. How strange a contradiction!"--Goold Brown, 1851. ; full leather covers ; front cover missing ; foxing ; text complete ; POOR.

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• Title: English grammar, adapted to the different classes of learner : with an appendix, containing rules and observations for assisting the more advanced students.
• Publisher: Philadelphia : Printed and Published by S. Probasco, no.26 North Front Street, [Stereotyped by L. Johnson], (1795), 1829.
• Publication Date: 1829
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Poor
• Book Type: Book
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