MR GRANT AND GRAMMAR.

Evening Star, Issue 3043, 19 November 1872, Page 3

MR GRANT AND GRAMMAR.

To the Editor. Sir,—An “Onlooker” exposes his own flippant ignorance in your columns in his studied comments on my letter, I will not deign to take any notice of such a scurrilous effusion. The specimens of his composition show how profoundly ignorant he is of the distinction between the pluperfect and the imperfect tense. His letter will not parse, and that is the only test of pure composition. I ask him to favor us with his name, that wc may be able to see the would-hc critic that evinces such stupidity. In a word, I deny that any one sentence of my letter is ungrammatical. I challenge ad the stout aud feeble men in the Colony to point out one single error in my letter. Is there a man—who has a reputation to gain or lose—in the Colony that will father “Onooker’s” letter? Here is a fair challenge. As to the lies, Mr Grant passes them over— e.ij., Gaelie is not my native tongue, &c., &c. Were I to say more, I would be degrading pay scholarship, ape] putting myself' db a par •sith the anonymous ignoramus. I am, &0., j. G, S. Grant, Dunedin, Nov. 19.