The Comic English Grammar: A New And Facetious Introduction To The English Tongue
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Excerpt from The Comic English Grammar: A New and Facetious Introduction to the English TongueWe shall only add, that as the Spartans used to exhibit a tipsy slave to their children with a view to disgust them with drunkenness, so we.
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- THE COMIC ENGLISH GRAMMAR:
- A NEW AND FACETIOUS INTRODUCTION TO THE ENGLISH TONGUE. By Percival Leigh
- Embellished with upwards of forty-five Characteristic Illustrations By JOHN LEECH.
- PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE.
- PART I. ORTHOGRAPHY.
- CHAPTER I. OF THE NATURE OF THE LETTERS, AND OF A COMIC ALPHABET.
- THE ALPHABET.
- CHAPTER II. OF SYLLABLES.
- Syllable is a nice word, it sounds so much like syllabub!
- CHAPTER III. OF WORDS IN GENERAL.
- PART II. ETYMOLOGY.
- CHAPTER I. A COMICAL VIEW OF THE PARTS OF SPEECH.
- CHAPTER II. OF THE ARTICLES.
- CHAPTER III.
- SECTION I. OF SUBSTANTIVES IN GENERAL.
- Substantives are either proper or common.
- SECTION II. OF GENDER.
- SECTION III. OF NUMBER.
- SECTION IV. OF CASE.
- SINGULAR.
- PLURAL.
- CHAPTER IV. OF ADJECTIVES.
- SECTION I. OF THE NATURE OF ADJECTIVES AND THE DEGREES OF COMPARISON.
- SECTION II. A FEW REMARKS ON THE SUBJECT OF COMPARISON.
- CHAPTER V. OF PRONOUNS.
- SECTION I. OF THE PERSONAL PRONOUNS.
- |Mr. Addams, don't be personal, Sir!"
- HE.
- SHE.
- THIRD PERSON SINGULAR.
- SECTION II. OF THE RELATIVE PRONOUNS.
- SINGULAR AND PLURAL.
- SECTION III. OF THE ADJECTIVE PRONOUNS.
- CHAPTER VI. OF VERBS.
- SECTION I. OF THE NATURE OF VERBS IN GENERAL.
- SECTION II. OF NUMBER AND PERSON.
- SECTION III. OF MOODS AND PARTICIPLES.
- SECTION IV. OF THE TENSES.
- SECTION V. THE CONJUGATION OF THE AUXILIARY VERBS TO HAVE AND TO BE.
- SECTION VI. THE CONJUGATION OF REGULAR VERBS ACTIVE.
- PASSIVE.
- SECTION VII. IRREGULAR VERBS
- PRESENT. IMPERFECT. PERF. OR PASS. PART.
- PRESENT. IMPERFECT. PERF. OR PASS. PART.
- SECTION VIII. OF DEFECTIVE VERBS.
- Most men have five senses,
- CHAPTER VII. OF ADVERBS.
- CHAPTER VIII. OF PREPOSITIONS.
- CHAPTER IX. OF CONJUNCTIONS..
- A Conjunction means literally, a union or meeting together.
- CHAPTER X. OF DERIVATION.
- PART III. SYNTAX.
- "Now then, reader, if you are quite ready, we are.—All right! * * * *"
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- RULE IV.
- RULE V.
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- RULE XVII.
- RULE XVIII.
- RULE XIX.
- RULE XX.
- RULE XXI.
- RULE XXII.
- PART IV. PROSODY.
- CHAPTER I. OF PRONUNCIATION
- SECTION I. OF ACCENT.
- SECTION II. OF QUANTITY.
- SECTION III. ON EMPHASIS.
- SECTION IV. OF PAUSES.
- SECTION V. OF TONES.
- CHAPTER II. OF VERSIFICATION.
- ON POETICAL FEET
- CHAPTER III. PUNCTUATION.
- ADDRESS TO YOUNG STUDENTS.
- Young Gentlemen,
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