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The Grammar of English Grammars

CHAPTER XI
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And this distribution, which was adopted by Dr.Ash about 1765, by Murray the schoolmaster about 1790, by Caleb Alexander in 1795, and approved by Dr.Adam in 1793, has since been very extensively followed; as may be seen in Dr.Crombie's treatise, in the Rev.Matt.

Harrison's, in Dr.Mandeville's reading-books, and in the grammars of Harrison, Staniford, Alden, Coar, John Peirce, E.Devis, C.
Adams, D.Adams, Chandler, Comly, Jaudon, Ingersoll, Hull, Fuller, Greenleaf, Kirkham, Ferd.

H.Miller, Merchant, Mack, Nutting, Bucke, Beck, Barrett, Barnard, Maunder, Webber, Emmons, Hazen, Bingham, Sanders, and many others.

Dr.Lowth's distribution is the same, except that he placed the adjective after the pronoun, the conjunction after the preposition, and, like Priestley, called the participle a verb, thus making the parts of speech _nine_.

He also has been followed by many; among whom are Bicknell, Burn, Lennie, Mennye, Lindley Murray, W.Allen, Guy, Churchill, Wilson, Cobbett, Davis, David Blair, Davenport, Mendenhall, Wilcox, Picket, Pond, Russell, Bacon, Bullions, Brace, Hart, Lyon, Tob.


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