For instance, a certain point of
grammatical knowledge is present in the mind, but is not predicable of any subject; or again, a certain whiteness may be present in the body (for colour requires a material basis), yet it is never predicable of anything.
Then she looked back again at her manuscript, and decided that to write
grammatical English prose is the hardest thing in the world.
My cousin has undertaken them, regardless of expense; she has asked me to come and stay with her--board and lodging gratis--and keep an eye on the
grammatical eccentricities of her pensionnaires.
To tell the truth, I hated those
grammatical studies, and nothing but the love of literature, and the hope of getting at it, could ever have made me go through them.
There were not merely no
grammatical errors, but as a composition it would not have disgraced a gentleman; the language, though plain, was strong and unaffected, and the sentiments it conveyed very much to the credit of the writer.
"No, father; I cannot underwrite Article Four (leave alone the rest), taking it 'in the literal and
grammatical sense' as required by the Declaration; and, therefore, I can't be a parson in the present state of affairs," said Angel.
At the back of the estrade, and attached to a moveable partition dividing this schoolroom from another beyond, was a large tableau of wood painted black and varnished; a thick crayon of white chalk lay on my desk for the convenience of elucidating any
grammatical or verbal obscurity which might occur in my lessons by writing it upon the tableau; a wet sponge appeared beside the chalk, to enable me to efface the marks when they had served the purpose intended.
To his great joy he discovered that his ear was becoming sensitive and that he was developing
grammatical nerves.
I took four lessons, and then I stuck fast in a
grammatical bog.
He seemed oppressed by a humiliating sense of having been overpaid, and wished apparently to redeem his debt by the offer of
grammatical and statistical information in small installments.
Garth, with her sleeves turned above her elbows, deftly handling her pastry--applying her rolling-pin and giving ornamental pinches, while she expounded with
grammatical fervor what were the right views about the concord of verbs and pronouns with "nouns of multitude or signifying many," was a sight agreeably amusing.
Mrs Nickleby had, that morning, had a yesterday's newspaper of the very first respectability from the public-house where the porter came from; and in this yesterday's newspaper was an advertisement, couched in the purest and most
grammatical English, announcing that a married lady was in want of a genteel young person as companion, and that the married lady's name and address were to be known, on application at a certain library at the west end of the town, therein mentioned.