Lectures on Language, as Particularly Connected with English Grammar
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Lectures on Language, as Particularly Connected with English Grammar, by William Stevens Balch, is designed for the use of teachers and advanced learners. The text says that formerly it was never dreamed that grammar depended on any higher authority than the books put into our hands. The speaker says the mind involuntarily reverts to the days of childhood, when learners were compelled, at the risk of their bodily safety, to commit to memory a set of arbitrary rules.
In a discussion of verbs, an objector says, "you mistake. An intransitive verb is one where the 'effect is confined within the subject, and does not pass over to any object.'" The text states that all words of this character are adjectives, describing one thing by its relation or likeness to another, and as such, admit of comparison.
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- William Stevens Balch
- Pages
- 158
- Language
- English
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