. The comic English grammar : a new and facetious introduction to the English tongue . henI had torote the Valentine, I sealed it with my has rose to (be) a common-councilman. I waschose Lord Mayor. Ive eat (or a eat) lots of venisonin my time. I should have spoke if you hadnt put inyour oar. You were mistook. lie sent her anatfecting copy of verses, which was ivroie with a Perryianpen, RULE XV. Adverbs are generally placed in a sentence beforeadjectives, after verbs active or neuter, and frequentlybetween the auxiliary and the verb : as, He came, Sir,and he ivas most exceedingly dr
. The comic English grammar : a new and facetious introduction to the English tongue . henI had torote the Valentine, I sealed it with my has rose to (be) a common-councilman. I waschose Lord Mayor. Ive eat (or a eat) lots of venisonin my time. I should have spoke if you hadnt put inyour oar. You were mistook. lie sent her anatfecting copy of verses, which was ivroie with a Perryianpen, RULE XV. Adverbs are generally placed in a sentence beforeadjectives, after verbs active or neuter, and frequentlybetween the auxiliary and the verb : as, He came, Sir,and he ivas most exceedingly drunk ; he could hardly sta?idupon his legs ; he made a ve7y lame discourse ; he spokeincoherently and ridiculously ; and K-as impatiently hcardhythe whole assembly. He is fashionably dressed. She is conspicuously uyly! The eye of jealousy isproverbially sharp, and yet it is indisputably green. SYNTAX. 101 Britons may often be sold, but tlicy icill never ^c slaves. The French Marquis was a veri/ charming man; hedanced exquuitely and nmibh/, and \\as tjreatly admired byall the /--- Several adverbs have been coined in America of late;and some of them are very remarkable for a particularelegance : as, I reckon youre catawampously chawed up. In the example just given there is to be found, besidesthe new adverb, a word which, if not also new to theEnglish student, is rendered so both by its orthographyand pronunciation; namely, chaioed This term is no 102 THE COMIC ENGLISH GRAMMAR. other than chewed, modified (as words, like livingthings, would seem to be) by transportation to a foreigncountry. Chawed up is a very strong expression, andis employed to signify the most complete state of discomfi-ture and defeat, when a man is as much crushed, mashed,and comminuted, morally speaking, as if he had literallyand corporeally undergone the process of mastication. Catawampously is a concentration of hopelessly,tremendously, thoroughly and irrevocably; sothat catawampously chawed up, m
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