Bad English Exposed (Paperback)

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• Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Number of Pages: 98
• ISBN: 145908036X
• WAPI (Tower ID): 113929136
• Release Date: August 1, 2009
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: " gotten; or, if a few bo are] remembered, yet " their general scope and tendency, having never " been clearly apprehended, is are] not remem- " bered at all." The reader will perceive, by the italicised words in the foregoing quotations, that in each instance the time of the action is present, not future. Therefore, the verb which follows the conjunction ought to be in the indicative mood. The last of the passages quoted contains two errors; for, Lindley Murray errs not only in employing the subjunctive mood, but also in putting in the singular number, a verb, to which the nominative is in the plural. Thus he violates his second rule of syntax, which says;?"Two "or more nouns, etc. in the singular number, "joined together by a copulative conjunction, "expressed or understood, must have verbs, "nouns, and pronouns, agreeing with them in "the plural number."?Page 225. Again, "It is evidently contrary to the first " principles of grammar, to consider two distinct " ideas as one, however nice may be their shades "of difference: and if there be no difference, " one of them must be superfluous, and ought to " be rejected."?Page 226. Dr. Blair, also, -whom Lindley Murray quotes, observes that, " two or more substantives, joined " by a copulative, must always require the verb "or the] pronoun to which they refer, to bo " placed in the plural number." Lindley Murray adds, on page 227;?" and this is the general sen- "timent of English grammarians." Yet, he himself says, in the quotation which I have given;?"their scope and tendency is they is ] " not remembered at all." These errors occur in the best edition of 'Lindley Murray's Grammar'; an edition published under the supervision of the author; and after his work had been one-and-twenty years before the public 1 CEIT...

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