GRAMMAR

OF

ENGLISH GRAMMARS,

WITH

AN INTRODUCTION

HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL;

THE WHOLE

METHODICALLY ARRANGED AND AMPLY ILLUSTRATED:

WITH

FORMS OF CORRECTING AND OF PARSING, IMPROPRIETIES FOR CORRECTION, EXAMPLES FOR
PARSING, QUESTIONS FOR EXAMINATION, EXERCISES FOR WRITING, OBSERVATIONS

FOR THE ADVANCED STUDENT, DECISIONS AND PROOFS FOR THE SETTLEMENT

OF DISPUTED POINTS, OCCASIONAL STRICTURES AND DEFENCES, AN
EXHIBITION OF THE SEVERAL METHODS OF ANALYSIS,

AND

A KEY TO THE ORAL EXERCISES:

TO WHICH ARE ADDED

FOUR APPENDIXES,

PERTAINING SEPARATELY TO THE FOUR PARTS OF GRAMMAR.

BY GOOLD BROWN,

FORMERLY PRINCIPAL OF AN ENGLISH AND CLASSICAL ACADEMY, NEW YORK; AUTHOR OF THE INSTITUTES OF
ENGLISH GRAMMAR, THE FIRST LINES OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR, ETC.

"So let great authors have their due, that Time, who is the author of authors, be not deprived of his due,
which is, farther and farther to discover truth."-LORD BACON.

FOURTH EDITION-REVISED AND IMPROVED.

NEW YORK:

PUBLISHED BY SAMUEL S. & WILLIAM WOOD,
No. 389 BROADWAY.

LONDON: SAMPSON LOW, SON & CO.,

47 LUDGATE HILL,
.1859.