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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: i ef the possessive case is commonly added to the last term: as, The king of Great Britain's dominions. Sometimes, though rarely, two nouns in the possessive case, immediately succeed each other, in the following form: My friend's wife's sister; a sense which would be better expressed by saying, tbe sister of my friend's wife; or my friend's sister-in-law. Some grammarians say, that in each of the following phrases, viz A book of my brother's, A servant of the queen's, A soldier of the king's, there are two geniiive cases; the fir' phrase implying, one of the books of my brother, the next, one of the servants of the queen; and the last, one of the soldiers of the king. But as the preposition governs the objective case; and as there ire not, in each of these sentences, two apostrophes with, - the letter coming after them, we cannot with propriety say, that there are two genitive cases. CHAPTER IV. Of JlDyEcrirEs. Section 1. Of the nature of Adjectives, and the degreef of comparison. An Adjective is a word added to a substantive to express its quality: as An industrious man; A virtuous woman; A benevolent mind. In English, the adjective is not variedwDn account of gender, number, or case. Thus we say, A careless boy; careless girls. The only variation which it admits, is that of the degrees of comparison. There are commonly reckoned three degrees of comparison; the Positive, the Comparative, and the Superlative. Grammarians have generally enumerated these three degrees of comparison; but the first of them has been thought by some writers, to be, impioperly, termed a degree of comparison; as it seems to be norhing more than the simple form of the adjective, and not to imply either comparison or degree. This ...
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