The comic English grammar [electronic resource]: a new and facetious introduction to the English tongue . 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 / 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 cha
The comic English grammar [electronic resource]: a new and facetious introduction to the English tongue . 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 / 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 with his head, so much/or 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. 98 THE COMIC ENGLISH &EAMMAE,. SINGLE BLESSEDNESS. 10. An Interjection is a short word denoting passionor emotion : as, Oh, Sophonisba! Sophonisba, 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 unhonoured by the adoption of genius, and unknownin the domains of literature. 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.
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