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Appendix to lectures on English grammar; containing an additional number of incorrect phrases, or vulgarisms, and a selection of nearly four hundred ... pronounced contrary to the best usage - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1828 Excerpt: ... did you request me to bring you from the city? In these sentences, what is an adjective pronoun, and has no case, but we apply the rule for parsing adjectives. What is a relative pronoun of the interrogative kind, when it is used in asking questions; as, What signify the counsel and care of preceptors, when youth think they have no need of assistanceIn this situation it has a case; and, to the learner, it would appear to be in the nominative case, though it is not; it is in the objective case, the object of the action of theactive verb signify. It reads thus, transposed. The counsel and care of preceptors signify what? What is sometimes considered a tntajtction; as, What! did you mean to insult me I Permit me here to observe, that nouns of multitude should generally be represented by that; as," The family that I visited." The pronoun what should never be used instead ofthe conjunction that; as, " He would not believe but what he was there." It should be, but that he was there. I would likewise observe that what is frequently used as a compound relative; but never simply as a relative. It is therefore incorrect to say, " This is the book what I wanted." It should be, that or whick I wanted. The word which is always an adjective when it joins a noun; zs,"WTiich book did you want?" It will be well, perhaps, to apprise you, that the lecture upon the relative pronoun is more intricate than any of the other lectures. By reviewing it carefully, however, you will soon be able to parse the relative pronouns accurately in every situation; and to apply them justly in speaking and writing. I will conclude this lecture by parsing a compound relative pronoun. " Whatever purifies, fortifies the heart." What is a compound ...
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