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The Grammar of English Grammars

CHAPTER XI
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Connectives or conjunctions." In his Philosophical and Practical Grammar, published in 1807, a book which professes to teach "the _only legitimate principles_, and established usages," of the language, a twofold division of words is adopted; first, into two general classes, primary and secondary; then into "_seven species_ or parts of speech," the first two belonging to the former class, the other five to the latter; thus: "1.

Names or nouns; 2.

Verbs; 3.

Substitutes; 4.
Attributes; 5.

Modifiers; 6.


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