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

by Percival Leigh

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Contents

  1. Preliminary Discourse
  2. Chapter I. Of the Nature of the Letters, and of a Comic Alphabet
  3. Chapter II. Of Syllables
  4. Chapter III. Of Words in General
  5. Chapter I. A Comical View of the Parts of Speech
  6. Chapter II. Of the Articles
  7. Section I. Of Substantives in General
  8. Section II. Of Gender
  9. Section III. Of Number
  10. Section IV. Of Case
  11. Section I. Of the Nature of Adjectives and the Degrees of Comparison
  12. Section II. A Few Remarks on the Subject of Comparison
  13. Chapter V. Of Pronouns
  14. Section I. Of the Personal Pronouns
  15. Section II. Of the Relative Pronouns
  16. Section III. Of the Adjective Pronouns
  17. Section I. Of the Nature of Verbs in General
  18. Section II. Of Number and Person
  19. Section III. Of Moods and Participles
  20. Section IV. Of the Tenses
  21. Section V. The Conjugation of the Auxiliary Verbs to Have and to Be
  22. Section VI. The Conjugation of Regular Verbs Active
  23. Section VII. Irregular Verbs
  24. Section VIII. Of Defective Verbs
  25. Chapter VII. Of Adverbs
  26. Chapter VIII. Of Prepositions
  27. Chapter IX. Of Conjunctions..
  28. Chapter X. Of Derivation
  29. Part III. Syntax
  30. Part IV. Prosody
  31. Section I. Of Accent
  32. Section II. Of Quantity
  33. Section III. On Emphasis
  34. Section IV. Of Pauses
  35. Section V. Of Tones
  36. Chapter II. Of Versification
  37. Chapter III. Punctuation
  38. Address to Young Students

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