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About substitution, that is
when one word is used instead of another, there is
no dispute. It is an error which we may detect in
connexion with all the parts of speech, but most
frequently in the verb, because it has greater variety
[p. 99]
than any other: consequently in connexion with the
verb we get solecisms of gender, tense, person and
mood (or “states” or “qualities” if you prefer either
of these terms), be these types of error six in number,
as some assert, or eight as is insisted by others (for
the number of the forms of solecism will depend on
the number of subdivisions which you assign to the
parts of speech of which we have just spoken).
Further there are solecisms of number;
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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