Part 110 (1/2)

IMPROPRIETIES FOR CORRECTION FALSE SYNTAX UNDER RULE V

UNDER THE RULE ITSELF--THE OBJECTIVE FORM

”Who should I meet the other day but my old friend!”--_Spectator_, No 32

[FORMULE--Not proper, because the pronoun _who_ is in the nominative case, and is used as the object of the active-transitive verb _shouldto Rule 5th, ”A noun or a pronoun made the object of an active-transitive verb or participle, is governed by it in the objective case” Therefore, _who_ should be _whom_; thus, ”_Whom_ should I meet,”

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”Let not him boast that puts on his armour, but he that takes it off”--_Barclay's Works_, iii, 262 ”Let none touch it, but they who are clean”--_Sale's Koran_, 95 ”Let the sea roar, and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein”--_Psalms_, xcviii, 7 ”Pray be private, and careful who you trust”--_Mrs Goffe's Letter_ ”How shall the people knoho to entrust with their property and their liberties?”-- _District School_, p 301 ”The chaplain entreated my comrade and I to dress as well as possible”--_World Displayed_, i, 163 ”He that cometh unto me, I will in no wise cast out”--_Tract_, No 3, p 6 ”Who, during this preparation, they constantly and solemnly invoke”--_Hope of Israel_, p 84 ”Whoever or whatever owes us, is Debtor; whoever or whatever e, is Creditor”--_Marsh's Book-Keeping_, p 23 ”Declaring the curricle was his, and he should have who he chose in it”--_Anna Ross_, p 147 ”The fact is, Burke is the only one of all the host of brilliant contemporaries e can rank as a first-rate orator”--_The Knickerbocker, May_, 1833

”Thus you see, how naturally the Fribbles and the Daffodils have produced the Messalina's of our time:”--_Brown's Estimate_, ii, 53 ”They would find in the Roman list both the Scipio's”--_Ib_, ii, 76 ”He found his wife's clothes on fire, and she just expiring”--_New-York Observer_ ”To present ye holy, unblaht”--_Barclay's Works_, i, 353 ”Let the distributer do his duty with sience; he who performs offices of compassion, with cheerfulness”--_Stuart's Romans_, xii, 9 ”If the crew rail at the master of the vessel, ill theynone but the none but hee”--DRAYTON'S _Polyolbion_

”Thou, nature, partial nature, I arraign! Of thy caprice maternal I complain!”--_Burns's Poeer clasps, but loves he knows not who”--_Addison's_, p 218

UNDER NOTE I--OF VERBS TRANSITIVE

”When it gives that sense, and also connects, it is a conjunction”--_L

Murray's Grae, thou canst not deny the fact”--_Murray's Key_, p 209 ”They _specify_, like many other adjectives, and _connect_ sentences”--_Kirkham's Gram_, p 114 ”The violation of this rule tends so much to perplex and obscure, that it is safer to err by too many short sentences”--_Murray's Gram_, p 312 ”A few _Exercises_ are subjoined to each important definition, for hi's Graoverns the accusative”--_Adam's Gram_, p 171; _Gould's_, 172; _Grant's_, 199; and others ”Or, any word that will _conjugate_, is a verb”--_Kirkha sentences, the author, hastening to finish, appears to write rather carelessly”--_Blair's Rhet_, p 216 ”He simply reasons on one side of the question, and then finishes”--_Ib_, p 306 ”Praise to God teaches to be humble and lowly ourselves”--ATTERBURY: _ib_, p 304 ”This author has endeavored to surpass”--_Green's Inductive Gra az soon az bizziness”--_Noah Webster's Essays_, p 402 ”And, in conjugating, you ns are applied”--_Kirkhainia would have e in a readiness to revenge all disobedience”--_2 Cor_, x, 6 ”However, in these cases, custoht's Gra cases demonstrate”--_Ib_, p

46 ”We otten his first principles”--_Ib_, p 147 ”How should we surprise at the expression, 'This is a _soft_ question!'”--_Ib_, p 219 ”And such as prefer, can parse it as a possessive adjective”--_Goodenow's Gran all the reasons, that induced to deviate frorammarians, would lead to a needless prolixity”--_Alexander's Gram_, p 4 ”The Indicative mood simply indicates or declares”--_Farnum's Gram_, p 33

UNDER NOTE II--OF VERBS INTRANSITIVE

”In his seventh chapter he expatiateth hith”--_Barclay's Works_, iii, 350 ”He quarrellethhat I say”--_Ib_, iii, 373

”Repenting hin”--_Hume's Hist_, ii, 56 ”Henry knew, that an excoerous effects”--_Ib_, ii, 165 ”The popular lords did not fail to enlarge themselves on the subject”--_Mrs Macaulay's Hist_, iii, 177 ”He is always master of his subject; and seems to play himself with it”--_Blair's Rhet_, p 445 ”But as soon as it coth of disease, all his secret infirmities shew themselves”--_Ib_, p 256 ”No man repented him of his wickedness”--_Jereht hand, or on the left”--_Ezekiel_, xxi, 16 ”He lies him down by the rivers side”--_Walker's Particles_, p 99 ”My desire has been for some years past, to retire myself to some of our American plantations”--_Cowley's Pref to his Poems_, p vii ”I fear me thou wilt shrink from the payment of it”--_Zenobia_, i, 76 ”We never recur an idea, without acquiring so_, p

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”Yet more; the stroke of death he must abide, Then lies him meekly down fast by his brethren's side”--_Milton_

UNDER NOTE III--OF VERBS MISAPPLIED

”A parlia”--_Hu shi+ps which had been wrecked”--_Ib_, i, 500 ”The nearer his military successes approached him to the throne”--_Ib_, v, 383 ”In the next example, _you_ personifies _ladies_, therefore it is plural”--_Kirkham's Gram_, p 103

”The first _its_ personates vale; the second _its_ represents stream”--_Ib_, p 103 ”pronouns do not always avoid the repetition of nouns”--_Ib_, p 96 ”_Very_ is an adverb of coood_”--_Ib_, p 88 ”You will please to coraph”--_Ib_, p 140 ”Even the Greek and Latin passive verbs require an auxiliary to conjugate some of their tenses”--_Murray's Gram_, p 100

”The deponent verbs, in Latin, require also an auxiliary to conjugate several of their tenses”--_Ib_, p 100 ”I have no doubt he made as wise and true proverbs, as any body has done since”--_Ib_, p 145 ”A uniform variety assumes as many set forms as Proteus had shapes”--_Kirkham's Elocution_, p 72 ”When words in apposition follow each other in quick succession”--_Nixon's Parser_, p 57 ”Where such sentences frequently succeed each other”--_L Murray's Gram_, p 349 ”Wisdom leads us to speak and act what is most proper”--_Blair's Rhet_, p 99; _Murray's Graue?

_Rom_ Neither, fair saint, if either thee dislike”--_Shak_

UNDER NOTE IV--OF PassIVE VERBS

”We tooour os”--_L

Murray's Gram_, p 134 ”For we are not only allowed the use of all the ancient poetic feet,” &c--_Ib_, p 259; _Kirkham's Elocution_, 143; _Jamieson's Rhet_, 310 ”By what code of e?”--_Dr Bartlett's Lect_, p 4 ”The children of Israel have alone been denied the possession of it”--_Keith's Evidences_, p 68 ”At York fifteen hundred Jeere refused all quarter”--_Ib_, p 73 ”He would teach the French language in three lessons, provided he was paid fifty-five dollars in advance”--_Chazotte's Essay_, p 4 ”And when he was dedom of God should come”--_Luke_, xvii, 20 ”I have been shown a book”--_Campbell's Rhet_, p 392 ”John Horne Tooke was refused admission only because he had been in holy orders”--_Diversions of Purley_, i, 60 ”Mr Horne Tooke having taken orders, he was refused admission to the bar”--_Churchill's Graht of”--_Bullions's E Graht by the tenor of this history?”--_Bush's Questions_, p 71 ”He had been left, by a friend, no less than eighty thousand pounds”--_Priestley's Gras to be done, each must be allowed its share of time and labour”--_Johnson's Pref to Dict_, p xiii ”Presenting the subject in a far iven”--_Kirkha of entire impartiality should be shown the two companies”--_Scott's Pref to Bible_, p vii ”He was offered the command of the British army”--_Grimshaw's Hist_, p 81 ”Who had been unexpectedly left a considerable sum”--_Johnson's Life of Goldsranted such a privilege”--_Spectator_, No 536 ”Happily all these affected tere”--_Ca table”--_Nutting's Gram_, p viii ”Thence, heTable”--_Ib_, p ix ”Pittacus was offered a great sum of money”--_Sanborn's Gram_, p 228 ”He had been allowed more time for study”--_Ib_, p 229 ”If the walks were a little taken care of that lie between them”--_Addison's Spect_, No 414 ”Suppose I am offered an office or a bribe”--_Pierpont's Discourse_, Jan 27, 1839