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ENGLISH GRAMMAR.
Lately Published, By WILLIAM LENNIE, Teacher of English, Edinburgh, the Sixth Edition,
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THE Cheapest, Neatest, and most Comprehensive ENGLISH GRAMMAR extant, and warranted to contain almost every idea on Etymology, Syntax, Punctuation, and Prosody, advanced in Murray's Larger Grammar, with as many Exercises, on an average, under each Rule and Note, as there are in his Volume of Exercises.
The convenience of having the Exercises on Parsing and Syntax in the same volume with the Grammar, is sufficiently obvious; but as the Definitions, Rules, and Notes in Mr. Lennie's are far more concise and perspicuous than those in Mr. Murray's, it may not be improper to subjoin the following Comparative View of one or two of the Rules as a specimen.
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MR. MURRAY'S RULES. Rule II. p. 143. Two or more nouns, &c. in the singular number, joined together by a* copuIative conjunction expressed or understood, must have verbs, nouns, and pronouns, agreeing with them in the plural number: as, |
MR. LENNIE's RULES Rule IV. p.83 Two or more singular nouns coupled with and require a verb and pronoun in the plural number ' as |
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Rule III. p. 146. The conjunction disjunctive has an effect contrary to that of the conjunction copulative; for as the verb, noun, or pronoun, is referred to the preceding terms taken separately, it must be in the singular number; as, |
Two or more singular nouns separated by or or nor, require a verb and pronoun in the singular : as, James or John is first. p.83 |
* This rule is not only vague, but incorrect; for a means anyone ; now any copulative conjunction will not combine the agency of two or more into one. The only conjunction that does this is and. — Mr. M.'s third rule, with several others, is equally vague.
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