. The comic English grammar; a new and facetious introduction to the English tongue . ts own mem-ber of the sentence: as, He icho is now at thehead of affairs, ichom the Queen dehghteth tohonour, whose PaviHon (if the Court had beenthere) might have been at Brighton, and to lolwmis intrusted the helm of state — is a Lamb. Well, it is to be hoped that he will get on in hisboat a little better than a bear; though why thatanimal is considered so peculiarly at sea when onthe water, we cannot tell. Man is the only sailorexcept the nautilus that we know of. Even thesteer is no steersman. The bear, h
. The comic English grammar; a new and facetious introduction to the English tongue . ts own mem-ber of the sentence: as, He icho is now at thehead of affairs, ichom the Queen dehghteth tohonour, whose PaviHon (if the Court had beenthere) might have been at Brighton, and to lolwmis intrusted the helm of state — is a Lamb. Well, it is to be hoped that he will get on in hisboat a little better than a bear; though why thatanimal is considered so peculiarly at sea when onthe water, we cannot tell. Man is the only sailorexcept the nautilus that we know of. Even thesteer is no steersman. The bear, however, is an ill-conditioned, awkward creature, and very likely toupset the boat; while the more gentle lamb, what-ever may be the perils of his situation, leaves therudder alone, remains quietly in his place, andgoes with the stream. RULE VIL The relative and the verb, when the former is])receded by two nominatives of different persons,may agree in person with either, according to thesense: as, I am the young gentleman tclio do thelovers at the Wells; or, icho does SYNTAX. 139. Let this maxim be borne constantly in mind. Amurderer of good characters should always be madean example of^ RULE VIII. Every adjective, and every adjective pronoun, re-lates to a substantive, expressed or implied: as, 140 THE COMIC ENGLISH GRAMMAR. * Dando was an unprincipled, as well as a voraciousman. Few quarrel with their bread and but-ter ; that is, few persons. This is the wonder-ful eagle of the sun. That is, This eagle, &c. Adjective pronouns agree in number with theirsubstantives: This muff, these muffs; that booby,these boobies; another numscull, other numsculls. Some people say Those kind of things, or, Tills four-and-twenty year, neither of which ex-pressions they have any business to use. A good deal of speculation has been expendedon the word means in connection with an adjectivepronoun. Some will have it that we should say,By this mean; By that mean; By thesemeans; By those means: oth
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