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CO-ORDINATE [Par. 439, 440.

But, owing to the Semi-Adverbial use of " What,"
"What sort," the Indefinite Adjective "a " is inserted before "man" (see Par. 219); so that the
notion of class is lost, and "a man" appears to
denote an individual, and "what sort of," "a jewel
of," &c., come to be regarded as Compound SemiAdverbial Adjectives.
439 The use of " of" after "whole," " all" -
(5) " The whole-of the day; " " all of us,"
-may be accounted for as a natural extension of,
and (II.) confusion with, similar expressions, e.g.
"half, quarter, &c., of the day;" "ten, eleven,
almost all, &c., of us."
SYNTAX OF SENTENCES.
Co-ordinate Clauses.
440 "And " sometimes joins a sentence to a previous
sentence implied but not expressed. It is often used
in passionate exclamations: -
(1) " (Is it true?) And will you then desert me? "
"And " sometimes comes between an Adverb
repeated twice, the repetition having the force of
emphasis: 1 -(1) " More and more;" " worse and worse."
1 See Par. 420.