Part 169 (2/2)
--_Day's Gram_, p 117
”Idle after dinner in his chair Sat a farmer ruddy, fat, and fair”
--_Hiley's Gram_, p 125
UNDER THE EXCEPTION CONCERNING ADJECTIVES
”When an attribute becomes a title, or is emphatically applied to a name, it follows it; as Charles, the Great; Henry, the First; Lewis, the Gross”--_Webster's Philos Gram_, p 153; _Improved Gram_, p 107 ”Feed me with food, convenient for me”--_Cooper's Practical Gram_, p 118 ”The words and phrases, necessary to exeressively laid doill be found strictly and exclusively adapted to the illustration of the principles to which they are referred”--_Ingersoll's Gram, Pref_, p x ”The _Infinitive Mode_ is that for, unlimited by person, or nuent in his business, prospers”--_Frost's Practical Gram_, p 113
”O wretched state! oh bosom, black as death!”
--_Hallock's Gram_, p 118
”O, wretched state! O, bosoer's Shak_, Vol ii, p 494
UNDER RULE IX--OF FINITE VERBS
”The Singular denotes _one_; the Plural _more_ than one”--_Bullions, E
Gram_, p 12; _Pract Lessons_, p 16; _Lennie's Gram_, p 7
[FORMULE--Not proper, because no comma is here set after _Plural_, where the verb _denotes_ is understood But, according to Rule 9th, ”Where a finite verb is understood, a coenerally required” Therefore, a coular denotes _one_; the Plural, _more_ than one”]
”The _comma_ represents the shortest pause; the _seer than the seer than the colon”--_Hiley's Gram_, p 111 ”The comma represents the shortest pause; the semicolon a pause double that of the comma; the colon, double that of the semicolon; and the period, double that of the colon”--_Bullions, E Gram_, p 151; _Pract Lessons_, p 127 ”Who is applied only to persons; which to anis only; and that to persons, anis”--_Day's Graular nuular or plural”--_Bullions, Practical Lessons_, p 10 ”Hoil the better artist”--_Day's Grail the better artist”--POPE'S PREFACE: _British Poets_, Vol vi, p viii ”Words are formed of syllables; syllables of letters”--_St Quentin's General Graation of an active verb is styled the ACTIVE VOICE; and that of a passive verb the PassIVE VOICE”--_Frost's El of E Gram_, p 19 ”The CONJUGATION of an active verb is styled the ACTIVE VOICE, and that of a passive verb the PassIVE VOICE”--_Smith's New Graenitive case; and the objective the accusative”--_L Murray's Gram_, 12mo, p 44 ”Benevolence is allied to few vices; selfishness to fewer virtues”--_Karaphy treats of Letters, Etyy of Words, Syntax of Sentences, and Prosody of Versification”--_Hart's English Gra blood; Heaven those that love their foes, and do theood”--See _Key_
UNDER RULE X--OF INFINITIVES
”His business is to observe the agreereement of words”--_Bullions, E Grammar_, Revised Edition, p 189
[FORMULE--Not proper, because no co verb But, according to Rule 10th, ”The infinitive mood, when it follows a verb fro reenerally, with its adjuncts, set off by the comma” Therefore, a comma should be inserted after _is_; thus, ”His business is, to observe the agreereement of words”]
”It is a mark of distinction to be made a member of this society”-- _Farnuuish the conjugations let the pupil observe the following rules”--_Day's D S
Gram_, p 40 ”He was now sent for to preach before the Parliament”-- _Life of Dr J Owen_, p 18 ”It is incu to love and honour their parents”--_Bullions, E Gram_, p 83 ”It is the business of every ued the sincerest candor to ement”--_Id, ib_, p 115 ”The proper way is to complete the construction of the first member, and leave that of the second understood”--_Ib, ib_, p 125 ”ENEMY is a naiven to a certain person to show the character in which he is represented”--_O B Peirce's Gram_, p 23 ”The object of this is to preserve the soft sound of _c_ and _g_”--_Hart's Grara_ of a language”--_Barrett's Gram_, 10th Ed, Pref, p iii ”Four kinds of type are used in the following pages to indicate the portions that are considered more or less elementary”--_Hart's Gram_, p 3
UNDER RULE XI--OF PARTICIPLES
”The chancellor being attached to the king secured his crown”--_Wright's Gram_, p 114
[FORMULE--Not proper, because the phrase, ”being attached to the king,” is not _co to Rule 11th, ”Participles, when so depends on them, when they have the i understood, should, with their adjuncts, be set off by the comma” Therefore, two co attached to the king, secured his crown”--_Murray's Gra received his orders, proceeded to execute them”-- _Day's Gram_, p 108 ”Thus used it is in the present tense”--_Bullions, E Gram_, Revised Ed, p 33 ”The _I to those of the present tense”--_Id, ib_, p 40
”Every possessive case is governed by so possessed”--_Id, ib_, p 87 ”The word _that_ used as a conjunction is preceded by a co coood authority, deserves credit”--_Cooper's Pl and Pr Gra in her nest, was killed and eaten there by the eagle”--_Murray's Key_, 8vo p 252 ”pronouns being used instead of nouns are subject to the same modifications”--_Sanborn's Gra of words they are consonants”--_Hallock's Gra from his couch, shall sleep no more”--_Ib_, p 222