Part 168 (1/2)

”To maintain a steady course areat mind”--_Day's District School Grahbor as ourselves comprehends the whole e”--_Ib_, p 85 ”A great fortune in the hands of a fool is a great misfortune”--_Bullions, Practical Lessons_, p 89 ”That he should e”--_Farnuroves is delightful”--_Id, ib_ ”That he committed the fault is s of the same sort or class are called _Common nouns_; as, _man, woman, day_”--_Bullions, Pract

Les_, p 12 ”That it is our duty to be pious _admits_ not of any doubt”--_Id, E Granation is the characteristic of a greatof a friend in such circumstances was certainly a duty”--_Id, ib_, 81

”That a life of virtue is the safest is certain”--_Hallock's Gra the idea of unity should be represented by a pronoun of the singular number”--_Ib_, p 167

UNDER RULE II--OF SIMPLE MEMBERS

”When the sun had arisen the enemy retreated”--_Day's District School Gram_, p 85

[FORMULE--Not proper, because no comma here separates the two si to Rule 2d, ”The simple members of a compound sentence, whether successive or involved, elliptical or coenerally divided by the comma” Therefore, a comma should be inserted after _arisen_; thus, ”When the sun had arisen, the enemy retreated”]

”If he _become_ rich he may be less industrious”--_Bullions, E Grarammar the better I like it”--_Id, ib_, p 127

”There is e that fire is a better servant than master”--_Id, ib_, p 128 ”The verb _do_, when used as an auxiliary gives force or emphasis to the expression”--_Day's Gram_, p 39

”Whatsoever it is incumbent upon a man to do it is surely expedient to do well”--_J Q Adams's Rhetoric_, Vol i, p 46 ”The soul which our philosophy divides into various capacities, is still one essence”--_Channing, on Self-Culture_, p 15 ”Put the folloords in the plural and give the rule for for it”--_Bullions, Practical Lessons_, p 19 ”We will do it if you wish”--_Id, ib_, p 29 ”He who does ill be rewarded”--_Id, ib_, 29 ”That which is always true is expressed in the present tense”--_Id, ib_, p 119 ”An observation which is always true must be expressed in the present tense”--_Id, Prin of E

Graraphy which treats of co letters to form syllables and words is called SPELLING”--_Day's Gram_, p 8 ”A noun can never be of the first person except it is in apposition with a pronoun of that person”--_Ib_, p 14 ”When two or ular nouns or pronouns refer to the saular verb and pronoun”--_Ib_, p 80 ”Jaone but he will return in a few days”--_Ib_, 89 ”A pronoun should have the saender as the noun for which it stands”--_Ib_, 89 and 80 ”Though he is out of danger he is still afraid”--_Bullions, E Gram_, p 80 ”She is his inferior in sense but his equal in prudence”--_Ib_, p 81 ”The ion is little to be trusted”--_Ib_, 81 ”He who does the ood has the most pleasure”--_Ib_, 81 ”They were not in the most prosperous circumstances e last saw them”--_Ib_, 81 ”If the day continue pleasant I shall return”--_Felton's Gram_, 1st Ed, p

22; Ster Ed, 24 ”The days that are past are gone for ever”--_Ib_, pp

89 and 92 ”As many as are friendly to the cause will sustain it”--_Ib_, 89 and 92 ”Such as desire aid will receive it”--_Ib_, 89 and 92 ”Who gave you that book which you prize so much?”--_Bullions, Pract Lessons_, p 32 ”He who overns it”--_Bullions, E

Gram_, p 83

”Shall he alone, who if not blessed with all?”

--_Felton's Gram_, p 126

UNDER THE EXCEPTIONS CONCERNING SIMPLE MEMBERS

”Newcastle is the town, in which Akenside was born”--_Bucke's Classical Gram_, p 54

[FORMULE--Not proper, because a needless comma here separates the restrictive relative _which_ fro to Exception 1st to Rule 2d, ”When a relative immediately follows its antecedent, and is taken in a restrictive sense, the comma should not be introduced before it” Therefore, this comma Should be omitted; thus, ”Newcastle is the town in which Akenside was born”]

”The remorse, which issues in reformation, is true repentance”--_Campbell's Philos of Rhet_, p 255 ”Men, who are intemperate, are destructive members of community”--_Alexander's Gram_, p 93 ”An active-transitive verb expresses an action, which extends to an object”--_Felton's Graiven, will have much to answer for”--_Murray's Key_, 8vo, p 188 ”The prospect, which we have, is char”--_Cooper's Pl and Pr Gram_, p 143 ”He is the person, who informed me of the matter”--_Ib_, p 134; _Cooper's Murray_, 120 ”These are the trees, that produce no fruit”--_Ib_, 134; and 120 ”This is the book, which treats of the subject”--_Ib_, 134; and 120 ”The proposal was such, as pleased me”--_Cooper, Pl and Pr Gram_, p 134 ”Those, that sow in tears, shall reap in joy”--_Id, ib_, pp 118 and 124; and _Cooper's Murray_, p 141 ”The pen, hich I write, ersoll's Graives the persons, who labour under it, by the prejudice, it affords every worthy person in their favour”--_Ib_, p 80 ”Irony is a figure, whereby we plainly intend so very different from what our words express”--_Bucke's Graure, whereby an improper word is used instead of a proper one”--_Ib_, p 109 ”The man, whom you met at the party, is a Frenchman”--_Frost's Practical Gram_, p 155

UNDER RULE III--OF MORE THAN TWO WORDS

”John, James and Thomas are here: that is, John _and_ James, &c”--_Cooper's Plain and Practical Grammar_, p

153

[FORMULE--Not proper, because no coain after _John_, in the latter clause; the three nouns being supposed to be in the same construction, and all of the to Rule 3d for the Comma, ”When more than tords or terms are connected in the same construction, or in a joint dependence on some other term, by conjunctions expressed or understood, the comma should be inserted after every one of them but the last; and, if they are nominatives before a verb, the comma should follow the last also” Therefore, the comma should be inserted after each; thus, ”John, James, and Thomas, are here: that is, John, _and_ James, and Thomas, are here”][463]

”Adverbs modify verbs adjectives and other adverbs”--_Bullions, E Gra Person, Gender, Number and Case”--_Id, Practical Lessons_, p 12 ”Wheat, corn, rye, and oats are extensively cultivated”--_Id, ib_, p 13 ”Infacts are prolix, inaccurate and confused”--_Finch's Report on Gram_, p 3 ”Most people consider it mysterious, difficult and useless”--_Ib_, p 3 ”His father and mother, and uncle reside at Rome”--_Farnum's Gram_, p 11 ”The relative pronouns are _hich_ and _that_”--_Bullions, Practical Lessons_, p 29 ”_That_ is sometimes a demonstrative, sometimes a relative and sometimes a conjunction”--_Id, ib_, p 33 ”Our reputation, virtue, and happiness greatly depend on the choice of our coion is social, kind and cheerful”--_Felton's Gram_, p 81 ”_Do, be, have_ and _will_ are sometimes principal verbs”--_Ib_, p 26 ”John and Thomas and Peter reside at Oxford”--_Webster, Philos Gram_, p 142; _Improved Gram_, p 96 ”The htful and the most durable”--_Id, ib_, pp 215 and 151 ”Love, joy, peace and blessedness are reserved for the good”--_Id, ib_, 215 and 151 ”The husband, wife and children, suffered extremely”--_Murray's Gram_, 4th Am Ed, 8vo, p 269 ”The husband, wife, and children suffer extremely”--_Sanborn's analytical Graned us”--_Ibid_

”He ed and tried, Repented, prohed”--_Felton's Gr_, p 108

UNDER RULE IV--OF ONLY TWO WORDS