A Companion to the Higher English Grammar 12+

📒 This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 edition. Excerpt: ... to qualify the entire clause, we but follow the greatest law of qualifying order, which is to make the qualification precede what is qualified. 'With a great turn obtained I this freedom'. Usual order--' I obtained this freedom with a great sum'. 'Once, and once only, after his acquittal, he interfered (did he interfere) in politics '. (Macaulay--Hastings.) 'Week in, week out, from morn to night You can hear his bellows blow '. (Longfellow.) 'For the sake of your fame, for the sake of the civilization you have attained, stifle not defenceless wretches in caverns'. (Jerrold.) 'Now by your children's cradles, now by your father's graves, Be men to-day, Quirites, or be for ever slaves'. (Macaulay.) The negative adverbs 'not', 'never', are especially favoured with this position of emphatic qualification. 'Not a muscle of his face moved. Not a sigh broke from him'. 'Not a drum was heard '. 'Not all the priests of Hymen, not all the incantations of the gods, can make it whole'. 'Never, not even under the tyranny of Laud, had the condition of the Puritans been so deplorable as at that time. Never had spies been so actively employed in detecting congregations. Ne...