The Comic English Grammar: A New And Facetious Introduction To The English Tongue

rieties, modifications,

t, and then they are pathetic; others from the nose, in which case they are ludicrous. The funniest place, however, from which words can come is the

es, modifications, and derivation, of

is said to have lives, nine; namely, the Article, the Substantive or Noun, the Adjective,

articularise j individually. We can therefore only afford to classify them. For instance; th

t all those who hav

ass between

in a state of

red under

addressed by parent

nd broken words, addressed to young ladies, and whispere

makers' words; which, like the above-mentio

ds, which will be readily su

go on with the

to point them out, and to show the extent of th

is otherwise denominated a

is often to be met with in s

exists, or of which we have any notion; as, tinker,

tion, though, not, perhaps, a serious one, to urge against it; for, in the first place, we have "no notion" of imp

tive is s

ng is a s

nothing i

ng an article before it, and by its making sense

a substantive to denote its qualit

: as, a poor thing, a sweet thing, a cool thing; or with any particular

in order to avoid tautology: as, "The man wants

ies to be, to do, or to suffer:

th a personal pronoun, or with the word to before it: as I

le accomp

nd by persons who call themselves genteel, converte

r adverb, serves to express quality or circumstance concerning it: as, "She swear

ow?'how much? when? or where? as in the verse, "Merrily danced the Quak

er, and to show the relation between them: as

but sentences also: as, Smith and Jones are happy be

inal

as, 'Oh, Sophonisba! Sophonisba, oh!" Pshaw! Pish! Pooh! Bah! Ah!

inal

will be given; their insertion may excite astonishment, but their omission would have provoked complaint: though unprovided with a Johnsonian title to a place in the English vocabulary, they have long been recog