. The comic English grammar; a new and facetious introduction to the English tongue . call elliptical phrases, consistingprincipally of the peculiar terms employed in thedifferent trades and professions : as, « A Milton Lost, by booksellers. A Lady (of the Lake) in sheets, do. One college (pudding) for No. 6, by waiters. To carry off: as, See how the old woman ina red cloak carries off the tower, by painters, &c. The principal parts of a simple sentence are,the subject, the attribute, and the object. If you want to know what subjects and objectsare, you should go to the Morgue at Paris. Butin
. The comic English grammar; a new and facetious introduction to the English tongue . call elliptical phrases, consistingprincipally of the peculiar terms employed in thedifferent trades and professions : as, « A Milton Lost, by booksellers. A Lady (of the Lake) in sheets, do. One college (pudding) for No. 6, by waiters. To carry off: as, See how the old woman ina red cloak carries off the tower, by painters, &c. The principal parts of a simple sentence are,the subject, the attribute, and the object. If you want to know what subjects and objectsare, you should go to the Morgue at Paris. Butin Grammar— The subject is the thing chiefly spoken of; theattribute is that which is affirmed or denied of it;and the object is the thing affected by such action. M 122 THE COMIC ENGLISH GRAMMAR. The nominative denotes the subject, and usuallygoes before the verb or attribute; and the wordor phrase, denoting the object, follows the verb;as, The flirt torments her lover. Here, afiirtis the subject; torments, the attribute or thingaflfirraed ; and her lover, the object. -^ SYNTAX. ]23 Yes, and a pretty object he is too, then we shall be told that he is not an ob-ject — of attachment. Alas ! that is the veryreason why he is an object — of compassion, orridicule, according to peoples dispositions. It may be also said that the flirt herself is apretty object. All we can say is, that we neversaw such a flirt, nor do we believe that we evershall. To torment, it seems, is the attribute of the flirt, as it is that of the . Well! no matter. Much good may the fellowship do her: that is all ! It strikes us, though, that we are somewhat di-gressing from our subject, namely Syntax, which, Principally consists of two parts (which the flirtdoes not, for she is all body and no soul) Concordand Government. Concord is the agreement which one word haswith another, in gender, number, case or person. Note.—That a want of agreement between wordsdoes not invalidate deeds. We
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