CONTENTS. Page 1. Grammatical Errors in the Use of Pronouns 2. Grammatical Errors in the Use of Verbs 3. Grammatical Errors in the Use of Participles 4. Grammatical Errors in the Use of Adjectives THE ELEMENTS OF ENGLISH COMPOSITION. CHAP. I.. INTRODUCTION. Some philosophers, supposing that mankind did not receive the gift of language from the divine author of their being, have been pleased to explain the process by which they must have fabricated a language for themselves ; but if mankind had been sent into the world without the principal organ of speech, I could almost as easily have believed them capable of inventing tongues. In the opinion of other writers, eminent for their learning, the true system of etymology consists in tracing the words of every language to one primitive speech. The researches of modern philologers have ascertained the radical affinities of many languages, which were formerly believed to have no connexion with each other; and there is every reason to anticipate that |