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ETYMOLOGY.
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swears dreadfully; she is incorrigibly lazy; and she is almost continually in liquor."
7. An Adverb is generally characterised by answering to the question, How? how much? when? or where? as in the verse, "Merrily danced the Quaker's wife," the answer to the question. How did she dance? is, merrily.
8. Prepositions serve to connect words together, and to show the relation between them: as,
"Off with his head, so much for Buckingham!"
9. A Conjunction is used to connect not only words, but sentences also: as, Smith and Jones are happy because they are single. A miss is as good as a mile.
SINGLE BLESSEDNESS
