[DOC] [TLE] Free Flashcards about GRAMMAR/LIT TERMS - StudyStack [PAR] 18TH-C. BISHOP ROBERT LOWTH LAID DOWN THE OFTEN-IGNORED RULE 
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picked up on some rules laid down by English Bishop Robert Lowth in the 18th 
century. ... Because an infinitive verb in Latin is one word, he decided that we 
should treat ... The general rule in English is that all clauses need a subject and a 
verb,... [DOC] [TLE] Robert Lowth - Wikipedia [PAR] Robert Lowth FRS was a Bishop of the Church of England, Oxford Professor of 
Poetry and the author of one of the most influential textbooks of English grammar. 
Contents. [hide]. 1 Life; 2 Old Testament Scholarship; 3 Work on English 
Grammar; 4 Literary ... It was much admired in the late 18th and early 19th 
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one ... One convenient way to represent the long-term change as new languages 
arise .... disapproved by prescriptive grammarians in the 18th century but revived 
in ... and grammar (Robert Lowth's Short Introduction to English Grammar in 1762
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quite thorough comparison of dicta put forth by a host of 18th-century prescriptive 
... one another, or are equivalent to an affirmative" (Bishop Robert Lowth, qtd. in 
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laying out the ... No question, Alter makes one realize that the Bible was a radical 
book .... after thousands of years of readership and study, that Bishop Robert 
Lowth... [DOC] [TLE] Full text of "CEELEnc." - Internet Archive [PAR] I hope I have succeeded in provoking at least one of these responses on every 
page. ...... The shape continued to be used in print until the 18th century. ..... their 
meaning, Using the mathematical rule that 'two negatives make a posi- tive  . 
..... but it also shows what is often ignored, that kirk was being used much further
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cannot be an auxiliary in an indirect passive (*make them taken to the hospital), 
... from Bishop Lowth (18th century) to Otto Jespersen (early 20th), can count 
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Question: 18th c. bishop Robert Lowth laid down the often-ignored rule that 2 negatives make one of these
Answer: a positive