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The principal design of this letter, is to show the affinity between the modern English, and the ancient Saxon; and he observes, very rightly, that "though we have borrowed many substantives, adjectives, and some verbs, from the French; yet the great body of numerals, auxiliary verbs, articles, pronouns, adverbs, conjunctions, and prepositions, which are the distinguishing and lasting parts of a language, remain with us from the Saxon."
In the gradual multiplication of parts of speech out of these primary ones in the differentiation of verbs into active and passive, of nouns into abstract and concrete in the rise of distinctions of mood, tense, person, of number and case in the formation of auxiliary verbs, of adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, prepositions, articles in the divergence of those orders, genera, species, and varieties of parts of speech by which civilized races express minute modifications of meaning we see a change from the homogeneous to the heterogeneous.
Cambreling rose quickly, and remarked that, at so late a period of the session, the last working night, he could not waste his time in discussing nouns, pronouns, verbs, and adverbs, with the gentleman from Massachusetts. Mr.
English words crave spaces between them, they do not like to huddle in clusters of slightly divergent centers of meaning, each edging a little away from the rest. Similarly, unable can hold its own against able because it destroys the latter's sphere of influence; unable is psychologically as distinct from able as is blundering or stupid. It is different with adverbs in -ly.
The foreign gentleman found it, without doubt, enormement riche. 'Enormously Rich, We say, returned Mr Podsnap, in a condescending manner. 'Our English adverbs do Not terminate in Mong, and We Pronounce the "ch" as if there were a "t" before it. We say Ritch. 'Reetch, remarked the foreign gentleman.
"The reserved seats," I whispered, "are half-a-crown each." "Then I will take eight reserved," said my father, opening a drawer in his desk and bringing out a bright, new sovereign. The little Frenchman started. He could hardly believe in such munificence. "When? How much?" stammered he, with a pleasant confusion of adverbs. "Eight," growled my father, scarcely able to repress a smile.
Conjunctions, prepositions, and adverbs play indeed the vital part in all philosophies; and in contemporary idealism the words 'as' and 'quâ' bear the burden of reconciling metaphysical unity with phenomenal diversity.
That which is common in the intellectual organization of man is reflected in the general structure of language; and every idiom, however barbarous it may appear, discloses a regulating principle which has presided at its formation. The Chaymas have also the Castilian adverbs aqui and alla, shades of difference which can be expressed only by periphrasis, in the idioms of Germanic and Latin origin.
With rhymes obtained from verb tenses, sometimes even from long adverbs preceded by a monosyllable from which they fell as from a rock into a heavy cascade of water, his verses, divided by improbable caesuras, often became strangely obscure with their audacious ellipses and strange inaccuracies which none the less did not lack grace.
And staggered sidewise. Now the warped and twisted tongue began to chant past-participially: "I done! I done!! I done!!!" "'Elp!" implored the King's English, fairly wan. "Friends, this this fellow 'as treated me houtrageously for for yaaws!" "Oh, worser and worser and worser," pursued Thomas, changing suddenly to adverbs. "Rawly now !" The King's English tottered to his knees.
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