. The comic English grammar : a new and facetious introduction to the English tongue . ke, to chew. Fashionable accomplishments ! Certain substantives are, with peculiar elegance, and bypersons who call themselves genteel, converted into verbs:as, Do you wine ? Will you malt ? Let me per-suade you to cheese f 6. An Adverb is a part of speech which, joined to averb, an adjective, or another adverb, serves to expresssome quality or circumstance concerning it: as, Sheswears dreadfully; she is incorrigibly lazy; and she isalmost continually in liquor. 7. An Adverb is generally characterised by ans
. The comic English grammar : a new and facetious introduction to the English tongue . ke, to chew. Fashionable accomplishments ! Certain substantives are, with peculiar elegance, and bypersons who call themselves genteel, converted into verbs:as, Do you wine ? Will you malt ? Let me per-suade you to cheese f 6. An Adverb is a part of speech which, joined to averb, an adjective, or another adverb, serves to expresssome quality or circumstance concerning it: as, Sheswears dreadfully; she is incorrigibly lazy; and she isalmost continually in liquor. 7. An Adverb is generally characterised by answeringto the question. How ? how much ? when ? or where ? asin the verse, Merrily danced the Quakers wife, theanswer to the question, How did she dance ? is, Merrily. 8. Prepositions serve to connect words together, and toshow the relation between them : as, OS xvith his head, so muchybr Buckingham ! 9. A Conjunction is used to connect not only words,but sentences also : as, A miss is as good as a mile. Smithand Jones are happy because they are single. 28 THE COMIC ENGLISH SIXGLE BLESSEDNESS. 10. An Interjection is a short Avord denoting passionor emotion: as, OA, Sophonisba! Soplionisba, oh!Pshaw! Pish! Pooh! Bah! Ah! Au! Eughph! Yah!Hum ! Ha ! Lauk ! La! Lor ! Heigho ! Well! There ! &c. Among the foregoing interjections there may, perhaps, besome unhonom-ed by the adoption of genius, and unknownin the domains of literatm-e. For the present notice of themsome apology may be required,but little will be given; theirinsertion may excite astonishment, but their omission wouldhave provoked complaint: though unprovided with a John-sonian title to a place in the English vocabulary, they havelong been recognised by the popular voice ; and let it beremembered, that as custom supplies the defects of legisla-tion, so that which is not sanctioned by magisterial autho-rity may nevertheless be justified by vernacular usage. ETYMOLOGY. 29 CHAPTER II. OF THE ARTICLES. The Articles i
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