Excerpt from English Grammar, Past and Present, Vol. 1 of 3: With Appendices on Prosody, Synonyms, and Other Outlying Subjects
Accordingly, Part I. Deals with Modern English Grammar, covering the more familiar ground of Accidence, Analysis, Syntax, and Punctuation.
Part II. Discusses the idiomatic uses of the different Parts of Speech, explaining these, when necessary, by reference to idioms that were in force in the earlier stages of our language.
Part III....
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