I cannot pretend to have seen, of course, every definition and rule which has been published on this subject; but, if I do not misjudge a service too humble for boasting, I have myself framed a greater number of new or improved ones, than all other English grammarians together.

And not a few of them have, since their first publication in 1823, been complimented to a place in other grammars than my own.

This is in good keeping with the authorship which has been spoken of in an other chapter; but I am constrained to say, it affords no proof that they were well written.

If it did, the definitions and rules in Murray's grammar must undoubtedly be thought the most correct that ever have been given: they have been more frequently copied than any others.
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But I have ventured to suggest, that nine tenths of this author's definitions are bad, or at least susceptible of some amendment.