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THE COMIC ENGLISH GRAMMAR.

The young Gentleman what does the Lovers.

Some people say, "Those kind of things," or, "This four-and-twenty year," neither of which expressions they have any business to use.

Adjectives are sometimes improperly used as adverbs: as, "He behaved very bad." "He insulted me most gross." "He eat and drank uncommon." "He wur beat very severe." "It hailed tremendous," or, more commonly, "tremenjus."


RULE IX.

The article a or an agrees with nouns in the singular number only: as, "A fool, an ass, a simpleton, a nin-

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