English Grammar; Adapted to the Different Classes of Learners with an Appendix, Containing Rules and Observations for Assisting the More Advanced Students to Write with Perspicuity and Accuracy  (English, Paperback, Murray Lindley)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 1 27 251 23 72 The power of speech is a faculty peculiar to man ; 8557474 3 27 and was hestowed on him by his heneficent ' ' , for 13 86 3 28968 the greatest and most excellent uses; but alas ! how often 54 547137 2 do we pervert it to the worst of purposes ! In the foregoing sentence, the words the, a, are articles ; power, speech, faculty, man, Creator, uses, purposes, are 'substantives ; peculiar, beneficent, greatest, excellent, worst, are adjectives; Aim, his, we, it, are pronouns ; is, wat, bestowed, do, pervert, are verbs ; most, how, often, are adverbs ; of, to, on, by, for, are prepositions ; and, but, are conjunctions; and atnt is an interjection. The numher of the different- sorts of words, or of the parts of speech, has heen variously reckoned by different grammarians. Some have enumerated ten, making the participle a distinct part; some eight, excluding the participle, and ranking the adjective under the noun ; some four, and others only two, (the noun and the verb,) supposing the rest to he contained in the parts of their division. We have followed those authors, who appear to have givca them the most natural and intelligible distribution. Sorre remarks on the division made by the learned Home Tooke, are contained in the first section of the eleventh c.hapter of etymology. The interjection, indeed, seems scarcely wortby of heing considered as a part of artificial language or speech, heing rather a branch of that natural language, which we possess in common with the brute creation, and by which we express the sudden emotions and passions that actuate our frame. But, as it is used in written as well as oral language, it may, in some measure, he deemed a part of speech. It is with us, a virtual sentence, in which the noun and verb are concealed under ...