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Par. 413, 414.]

AD VERBS.

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(6) " He has a certain grandeur of soul, which cannot
be contemplated unmoved," i.e., "by any-one
unmoved."
413 V. Adverbs.
Some Adjectives appear to be used as Adverbs,
e.g."He ran fast."
The explanation of these forms is as follows:
In Early English an Adverb was often formed by
adding -e to an Adjective, e.g. " bright" Adjective,
"bright-e" Adverb. In Modern English the -e has
been dropped (with many other Inflections), but
several of the old Adverbs are retained, e.g. " quick,"
" sweet," &c.
"There " redundant; see Par. 152.
414 "So" is used (1) for an Adjective, (2) for a
Noun. The explanation of this is as follows: " So "
means " in this way," and is a less emphatic form of
"also," " all-so." Hence -
(1) "He is an Englishman, and so (also) are you,"
i.e., "and you also are an Englishman."
(2) "I am sorry, and so (also) is he," i.e., "he also
is sorry."
In time this restricted use of" so" (restricted to
indicate the repetition of a previous statement) was