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Where a finite verb is understood, a coenerally required; as, ”From law arises security; froe”--_Murray_

”Else all my prose and verse were much the same; This, prose on stilts; that, poetry fallen lame”--_Pope_

EXCEPTION--VERY SLIGHT PAUSE

As the semicolon must separate the clauses when the comma is inserted by this rule, if the pause for the oht, it may be left unmarked, and the coate speaks of piety, the enerosity, the coward of valour, and the corrupt of integrity, they are only the more despised by those who know them”--_Comstock's Elocution_, p 132

RULE X--INFINITIVES

The infinitive mood, when it follows a verb fro reenerally, with its adjuncts, set off by the coreatest secrets in composition is, _to knohen to be simple”--_Jamieson's Rhet_, p 151 ”To confess the truth, I was much in fault”--_Murray's Gram_, p 271

”The Governor of all--has interposed, Not seldo arm, _to smite_ The injurious trampler upon nature's law”--_Cowper_

RULE XI--PARTICIPLES

Participles, when so depends on them, when they have the i understood, should, with their adjuncts, he set off by the comma; as, 1 ”Law is a rule of civil conduct, _prescribed_ by the supreht, and _prohibiting_ what is wrong”--BLACKSTONE: _Beattie's Moral Science_, p 346

2 ”Young Edwin, _lighted by the evening star, Lingering and list'ning_ wander'd down the vale”--_Beattie_

3 ”_United_, we stand; _divided_, we fall”--_Motto_

4 ”_Properly speaking_, there is no such thing as chance”

EXCEPTION--PARTICIPLES RESTRICTIVE

When a participle immediately follows its noun, and is taken in a restrictive sense, the comma should not be used before it; as,

”A man _renown'd for repartee_, Will seldo”--_Cowper_

RULE XII--ADVERBS Adverbs, when they break the connexion of a simple sentence, or when they have not a close dependence on some particular word in the context, should, with their adjuncts, be set off by the coentleness with the artificial courtesy of the world”--”_Besides_, the mind must be employed”--_Gilpin_

”_Most unquestionably_, no fraud was equal to all this”--_Lyttelton_

”But, _unfortunately for us_, the tide was ebbing already”

”When buttress and buttress, _alternately_, Seem framed of ebon and ivory”--_Scott's Lay_, p 33

RULE XIII--CONJUNCTIONS

Conjunctions, when they are separated from the principal clauses that depend on theenerally set off by the coion, the force of Habit was eluded”--_Johnson_

”They know the neck that joins the shore and sea, _Or_, ah! how chang'd that fearless laugh would be”--_Crabbe_

RULE XIV--PREPOSITIONS