If this can be shown to the satisfaction of the reader, will he hope to find an other English grammar in which the eye of criticism may not detect errors and deficiencies with the same ease?
My object is, to enforce attention to the proprieties of speech; and this is the very purpose of all grammar.

To exhibit here all Murray's definitions, with criticisms upon them, would detain us too long.

We must therefore be content to take a part of them as a sample.

And, not to be accused of fixing only upon the worst, we will take a _series_.

Let us then consider in their order his definitions of the nine parts of speech;--for, calling the participle a verb, he reduces the sorts of words to that number.