But all their efforts to grammarize Chinese have proved fruitless. The reason is not that Chinese itself has no grammar but that a language should be idiomatic rather than grammatical, or rather, idiomatic regardless of grammar.

At the hill, the Warrior must have been at least ten lengths in front of Wild Dayrell; but he compounded about 200 yards on the T. Y. C. side of the Red House.

By the middle, the show was unsavable.

The indolent girl resisted doing her homework.