Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1860-09-15
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FOR THE KE0wEE COURIER.
The Lamar System of English Gramm

NO. -
Ar. Elftor; 1t hos been shown in a pre-
vlous article that Mir. LAMAR has used his
Mssecttag haue upon the Verb, bisecting it
at the auxiliary junction transforming the
auxiliary into principal verb, and the prn-
clpal. INTO perfect partcip ipe--rcducing the
number of lenses to three, and destroying the
PaSsi0c Verb entirely.
Now, sir, we lay it down as an incontroycrt-
iblc proposition-and challenge any, or all of
the advocates of Mr. LAMAR's system of
Grammar, or Mr.. LAMAR hinself, or him and
all combined, to show to the contrary--that
the English Verb has sir lenses, because it
has six different forms by which san action,
state or being may be affirmed of its subject,
each indicating different times, as it relates to
tho subject and time of the speaker; that
these different infections qualifications or va
rlatlons OF the verb are caused by tine different
relations that the time of the verb bears tn
the time of the speaker and that these diff
terent variations are called the lenses, signi-
tying In Grammar the times of the verb, not
that the term tense literally means time, but
because Ut Is derived from tellGl0, the literal
SlgnlncatIon OF walch is, to stretch, extend or
vary Hence the stretching, extending or
variation ofthe gcrb to show its different times
We Will in the next place, give the reader
ono OF Mr.. LAMAR'S model sentences
lie has JYriaen'
PARsING, lie iS u pronou,,, of tn. Third
person, sing'tinr number, 0,asculiae gcnt2er,
0Hdsayect If has. HnS IS a vc55 IN tie pres
ent tense, third person, siagalar nunJer, an1
agrees wtth he tOritten as a perfect narti-
cipke and refers to he"
Now, is not this supremely ridculous-an
outrage upon common sense--an insult offered
to the Intelligence of the age, TO attempt to
thrust such nonsepsioal stuff as this down the
threats Of the people; and then, to cap the
climax, have the bfazen, .unheard.of effront-
cry to call it GrammaT, L-yea, PsRosophica1
RfrGnnsars " founded upon reason and com
mon sense" when every one can sec, at one
single indirect glance, that it is perfect bur
iesque upon common sense" and {" founded
o.on the yely quintessencc of nonsense ="
Now we take the position, that it is a
Grammatical impossibility in at least four.
fold sense, for 8 Vritea," in this sentence, to
be .por9Sciple. i -, st A
q In the fret place, Mr.. LAMAR's own e1e6;nS-
hon ofithe Verb, is proof Of the highest nos
suite order, that "torittea," In this sentence
should not be parsed or "disposod OF" as a
participle for his AeGnition of the Verb is
an these words: "A perb is q ao9rd thst e.r
presses the action, state or Jei,g Of Me sub
.Jectj" and cannot every one see who has dis.
criminatiye qualities sufficient to distinguish.
s Itamars PYaetical Grammar z from Moore's
Magnetic Telegraph, th;titi$ e ssStte,s} and
mot has, tbat s1presses he actioa of Me
suyect in this, his model sentence and
1hpt, therefore, f,oritsea, should be parsed
as verb, because II performs the very identil
cal Office that r.LAMAR tells us the verb
q performs. IL is an ilnpOssibility, IN tho sec
eond place. because ths form Of the verb, when
used IS q partleiple, always kas a passios sig
niicetion, and consequently cannot possibly
he nssd u an acFies sense as " syritten . is,
in thisseptenpe. IL is an impossihilitys in.
the third placo, because it obliterases the line
pf dcmarcation between ths Verb and Parti.