Remarks on the English language Author:Robert Baker 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: II. WRITE. This Word is often ufcd (efpecially by Peopl in Trade) with a Dative Cafe following it without the Article To prefixed to that Dative, even thought... more »here be no accufative Cafe after it. Examples.] He is gone into the Country, and has promifed to write me often.—They arefo punctual in their Correfpondence, that they write each other every Week.—I won't fail to write you fan. This is very barbarous Expreffion. It is abfo- lutely neceffary to prefix to the Dative the Article To. Examples.] He is gone into the Country, and has promifed to write to me often.—They are fo punctual in their Correfpondence, that they write to each other every Week.—7 will not fail to write toyoufoon. Indeed, where an accufative Cafe follows the Dative, the Article becomes unnecefiary, and is feldom ufed. For Inftance; He writes me Word that the Affair isfinijhed.—We write each other very long Letters.—7 have written her a long Account of that Tranfatfion. Nor is the Article absolutely neceflary, where the accufative of the relative Pronoun Which or That is fuppofed, without being exprefted. Examples.] 'the Letter I wrote him never came to Hand.—The News I JJiall write her to Night ivillpleafe her greatly.—Here the Pronoun relative Which, or That, is fuppofed : For the Senfe is, the Letter that (or which) I wrote him, never came to Hand..—The News, that (or which) I Jhall write her to-night, will pleafe her greatly. III. Omiffion of the Nominative of the Relative Pronouns Who, That and Which. TH E Nominative of the Relative Pronouns Who, That and Which, is frequently omitted by bad Writers, (and fometimes, tho'rarely, even by good ones) and left to be fuppofed. Inftead, forlnftance, of faying, the Man, who lived there.lately, is removed.—The Article, that 'was inferted in Te...« less