What a sample of grammatical instruction is here!  The pronominal adjectives “cannot properly be called adjectives,” but “they may with sufficient propriety be termed adjectives!” And so may “the possessives,” or the personal pronouns in the possessive case!  “Here,” i.e., in Etymology, they are all “classed with pronouns;” but, “in Syntax,” they are “uniformly regarded as adjectives!” Precious MODEL for the “Series of Grammars, English, Latin, and Greek, all on THE SAME PLAN!”

[173] Some, for somewhat, or in some degree, appears to me a vulgarism; as, “This pause is generally some longer than that of a period.”—­Sanborn’s Gram., p. 271.  The word what seems to have been used adverbially in several different senses; in none of which is it much to be commended:  as, “Though I forbear, what am I eased?”—­Job, xvi, 6. “What advantageth it me?”—­1 Cor., xv, 32.  Here what, means in what degree? how much? or wherein? “For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband?”—­1 Cor., vii, 16.  Here how would have been better.  “The enemy, having his country wasted, what by himself and what by the soldiers, findeth succour in no place.”—­Spenser.  Here what means partly;—­“wasted partly by himself and partly by the soldiers.”  This use of what was formerly very common, but is now, I think, obsolete. What before an adjective seems sometimes to denote with admiration the degree of the quality; and is called, by some, an adverb; as, “What partial judges are our love and hate!”—­Dryden.  But here I take what to be an adjective; as when we say, such partial judges, some partial judges, &c. “What need I be forward with Death, that calls not on me?”—­Shakspeare.  Here what seems to be improperly put in place of why.

[174] Dr. Blair, in his Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles-Lettres, often uses the phrase “this much;” but it is, I think, more common to say “thus much,” even when the term is used substantively.

[175] There seems to be no good reason for joining an and other:  on the contrary, the phrase an other is always as properly two words, as the phrase the other, and more so.  The latter, being long ago vulgarly contracted into t’other, probably gave rise to the apparent contraction another; which many people nowadays are ignorant enough to divide wrong, and mispronounce.  See "a-no-ther" in Murray’s Spelling-Book, p. 71; and "a-noth-er" in Emerson’s, p. 76. An here excludes any other article; and both analogy and consistency require that the words be separated.  Their union, like that of the words the and other, has led sometimes to an