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Studies on Book of Mormon English

Manuscript evidence of a revealed text

Verbal complementation after high-frequency verbs of influence

Roberts and Bushman on Book of Mormon English

The approach of Book of Mormon English

On attempting to establish prophetic authority by means of archaism

Rhetorical if in the King James Bible and John Bunyan’s writings

Cause + two pronouns + should

“After that” subordinate clauses
+ main clauses with periphrastic did

“Did cause” + should

On biblical quotations

B. H. Roberts’ list of objectionable Book of Mormon grammar

Referential “of whom hath been spoken”

Referential “of whom it hath been spoken”

Archaic “exceeding great,” not modern “exceedingly great”

“Except it were” phraseology

“Save it should be” phraseology

“It supposeth me”

“It must needs be”

“After that”-clauses with subjunctive, modal shall

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