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Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1832 Excerpt: ...be found sufficient. But if, in addition, the notes be perused; and the Appendix B, in which the general position is maintained, that the same word is not more than one part of speech, I am persuaded that, with the exception of a few solecisms, colloquialisms, and anomalous expressions which are common to all languages, no ambiguity is unaccounted for, nor any real difficulty unexplained. SPECIMEN OF PARSING, LETTER OF LORD CHESTERFIELD''S TO HIS SON. PRELIMINARY REMARKS. 1. When a noun occurs in the nominative case, I call it a noun simply. The reader who knows the meaning of the word, will easily supply whatever else it may be thought necessary to say concerning it. 2. When an adjective occurs without its noun expressed after it, I always supply the noun, with a view to show that the said adjective is never any other part of speech. I have also supplied the noun, or the adjective and noun, when elliptically omitted after the preposition. 3. As the reader is supposed to know the difference between the present and past participles of verbs, and the nominative and objective cases PS k of pronouns, these, after the first time of occuring, will merely be called participle and pronoun respectively. 4. When the verb is in any of the persons of the present time, indefinite action, indicative mood, active voice, the infinitive only of the verb will be mentioned, after the first time of occurring, to save the trouble of repetition. LETTER. Your very bad pronunciation,: Pronominal adjective--adverb--attributive adjective--noun. my son, gives me: Pronominal adjective--noun--3d person singular, present time, indefinite action, indicative mood, active voice of the verb to give--pronoun, objective case. real concern, and I: adj.--noun--adv.--pron. congra...
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