Each explanation can be mastered in its turn, and may then be employed in forming the paraphrase; by which means the child's mind is called to the performance of double duty,-reading from his book,-throwing out the required words,-remembering their explanations,-inserting them regularly and grammatically,-and perhaps transposing, and re-constructing the whole sentence,-at the moment that he is giving utterance to that which the mind had previously arranged.
"A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education"
James Gall
The statement, not very grammatically expressed, that "the practice of smoking" was "itself a species of intoxication" was absurd enough; but the allegation, introduced by a question-begging "undoubtedly," that smoking occasioned drinking was directly contrary to fact.
"The Social History of Smoking"
G. L. Apperson
This was not exactly the way in which a learned scholar might be expected to talk; but Mr. Smith's speech was not always elegant, or even grammatically correct.
"Hector's Inheritance or The Boys of Smith Institute"
Horatio Alger