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Synopsis
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. 1864 Excerpt: ...as the other." Several denotes more than two and fewer than many. "Several boys." Some denotes one or a portion indefinitely. It is opposed to all, a particular one, or the whole. "Some of the robbers were caught." "Some one said so." "Some of his money was stolen." When two indefinite portions are spoken of or are contrasted, some is often applied to one, and others to the other; when more than two are spoken of, some is generally used throughout Sometimes others is used to continue the sentence after the first some. "Some of the men were without coats, and others without shoes." "Some of the pupils are indolent, some are mischievous, and some are stupid." Errors of grammar are commonly called solecisms, from Soli, the name of a Grecian colony, noted for the misnse of their mother-tongue. "The barbarism ll an offence agalnfl etymology, the solecism against syntax, and the impropriety against lexicography."--Campbell's Rhetoric. Sneh refers to an object as being of the same nature, character, or description as something else. "Modesty, meekness, and such virtues." "Sucli men as he is." "Such principles as we approve." It is sometimes so used as to include both the objects or classes to which the comparison relates. "It is so used by such writers as Swift and Addison;" i. e., by Swift and Addison, and other writers like them. Sometimes it denotes identity in stead of similarity, and is then generally in the way of a better expression. "Sudi nouns as end iD x assume es:" say, "The nouns which," &c. Sundry=-divers, but it is not quite so emphatic. "So teach sundry grammarians."--Brown. This (plu. these) strongly a...
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- PublisherRareBooksClub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1130289818
- ISBN 13 9781130289817
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages212
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