The comic English grammar [electronic resource]: a new and facetious introduction to the English tongue . sentence ; as, He who is now at thehead of affairs, whom the Queen delighteth to honour,whose Pavilion (if the Court had been there) might havebeen at Brighton, and to whom is intrusted the helm ofstate—is a Lamb. 94 THE COMIC ENGLISH GEAMMAS Well, it is to be hoped that he will get on in his boat alittle better than a bear; though why that animal is con-sidered so peculiarly at sea when on the water, we cannottell. Man is the only sailor, except the nautilus, that weknow of. Even the stee
The comic English grammar [electronic resource]: a new and facetious introduction to the English tongue . sentence ; as, He who is now at thehead of affairs, whom the Queen delighteth to honour,whose Pavilion (if the Court had been there) might havebeen at Brighton, and to whom is intrusted the helm ofstate—is a Lamb. 94 THE COMIC ENGLISH GEAMMAS Well, it is to be hoped that he will get on in his boat alittle better than a bear; though why that animal is con-sidered so peculiarly at sea when on the water, we cannottell. Man is the only sailor, except the nautilus, that weknow of. Even the steer is no steersman. The bear, how-ever, is an ill-conditioned, awkward creature, and very likelyto upset the boat; while the more gentle lamb, whatevermay be the perils of his situation, leaves the rudder alone,remains quietly in his place, and goes with the stream. RULE relative and the verb, when the former is preceded by two nominatives of different persons, may agree in per-son with either, according to the sense : as, I am theyoung gentleman who do the lovers at the Wells; or, who IS 1 I R ft SYNTAX. 95 Let this maxim be borne constantly in mind. Amurderer of good characters should always be made anexample of. RULE VIII. Every adjective, and every adjective pronoun, relates to asubstantive, expressed or implied: as, Dando was an un-principled, as well as a voracious man. Few quarrel withtheir bread and butter ; that is, few persons. This isthe wonderful eagle of the sun; that is, This eagle, &c. Adjective pronouns agree in number with their substan-tives ; This muff, these muffs ; that booby, these boobies;another numscull, other numsculls. Some people say, Those kind of things, or, Thisfour-and-twenty year ; neither of which expressions theyhave any business to use. A good deal of speculation has been expended on theword means in connection with an adjective will have it that we should say, By this mean ;* By that mean ; By these means; By tho
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