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The Grammar of English Grammars

CHAPTER X
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In the following sentence, _this rule is violated_: 'It is remarkable, that Holland, against _which_ the war was undertaken, and _that_, in the very beginning, was reduced to the brink of destruction, lost nothing.' The clause ought to have been, 'and _which_ in the very beginning.'"-- _Murray's Gram._, 8vo, p.155.But both the rule and the example, badly as they correspond, were borrowed from Priestley's Grammar, p.

102, where the text stands thus: "Whatever relative _be_ used, in one of a _series_ of clauses, relating to the same antecedent, the same ought to be used in _them all_.

'It is remarkable, that Holland,'" &c.
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THIRD DEFINITION:--"An Adjective is a word added to a substantive, to express _its_ quality."-- _Lowth, Murray, Bullions, Pond, and others_.

Here we have the choice of two meanings; but neither of them is according to truth.


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