The Principles of Latin and English Grammar: Designed to Facilitate the Study of Both Languages, by Connecting Them Together (Classic Reprint)

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As language is regular in its general structure, rules must no doubt be useful to assist us in understanding it. We first learn to speak from imitation. We use the expressions which we hear from others. But when we have once gained a cer tain stock of words, we employ them according to general rules. When a child, for instance, has occasion to speak of two persons, he will say, two mans, instead of two men because he learns the general method of forming the plural, before he attends to particular exceptions. The same may be observed of a person who endeavours to acquire any foreign language. Memory furnishes us with proper terms to ex press our thoughts, but judgment must be exerted in adapt mg these to particular circumstances.

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