Part 172 (1/2)
RULE II--GREATER PAUSES
When the semicolon has been introduced, or when it reater pause is required within the period, the colon should be employed: as, ”Princes have courtiers, and merchants have partners; the voluptuous have companions, and the wicked have accomplices: none but the virtuous can have friends”--”Unless the truth of our religion be granted, a Christian reatest monster in nature: he must at the same time be eminently wise, and notoriously foolish; a wisepowers ed by a constant delirium, while his conduct never swerves from the path of propriety”--_Principles of Eloquence_, p
80
”A decent coives a constant feast: More we perceive by dint of thought alone; The rich _
RULE III--INDEPENDENT QUOTATIONS
A quotation introduced without a close dependence on a verb or a conjunction, is generally preceded by the colon; as, ”In his last moments, he uttered these words: 'I fall a sacrifice to sloth and luxury'”--”At this the king hastily retorted: 'No put-offs, my lord; answer me presently'”--_Churchill's Gram_, p 367 ”The father addressed himself to them to this effect: 'O ha_, p 85
IMPROPRIETIES FOR CORRECTION
FALSE PUNCTUATION--ERRORS CONCERNING THE COLON
UNDER RULE I--ADDITIONAL REMARKS
”_Of_ is a preposition, it expresses the relation between _fear_ and _Lord_”--_Bullions, E Gram_, p 133
[FORMULE--Not proper, because the additional remark in this sentence is not sufficiently separated from the main clause, by the co to Rule 1st for the Colon, ”When the preceding clause is complete in itself, but is followed by some additional remark or illustration, especially if no conjunction is used, the colon is generally and properly inserted” Therefore, the colon should here be substituted for the comma]
”Wealth and poverty are both temptations to man; _that_ tends to excite pride, _this_ discontentment”--_Id, ib_, p 93; see also _Lennie's Graer's_, 25; _Merchant's_, 44; _Hart's_, 137; _et al_ ”Religion raises ion sinks them beneath the brutes; _this_ binds them down to a poor pitiable speck of perishable earth, _that_ opens for them a prospect in the skies”--_Bullions, E Gram_, p 98; _Lennie's Graersoll's Gram_, p 71
”Children, obey your parents; honour thy father and mother, is the first commandment with pro place, and my shi+eld, I hope in thy promises”--_O B Peirce's Gram_, p 56 ”The sun shall not sht
The Lord will preserve from evil He will save ned the highest place in the class of objects a which she is numbered--the nations of antiquity--she is one of them”--_Lennie's Gram_, p 79
”From short (as usual) and disturb'd repose I wake; how happy they ake no more!”--_Hallock's Gram_, p 216
UNDER RULE II--GREATER PAUSES
”A taste _of_ a thing, implies actual enjoyment of it; but a taste for it, implies only capacity for enjoyment; as, 'When we have had a true taste of the pleasures of virtue, we can have no relish _for_ those of vice'”--_Bullions, E Gram_, p 147
[FORMULE--Not proper, because the pause after _enjoy to Rule 2d for the Colon, ”When the semicolon has been introduced, or when it reater pause is required within the period, the colon should be eed to a colon]
”The Indicative ; as, He _loves_; He is _loved_; Or, it asks a question; as, _Lovest_ thou me?”--_Id, ib_, p 35; _Pract Lessons_, p 43; _Lennie's Gr_, p 20 ”The Indicative Mood si: as, 'He _loves_, he is _loved_:' or it asks a question: as, 'Does he love?' 'Is he loved?'”--_L Murray's Gram_, 8vo, p 63; 12mo, p 63 ”The Imperfect (or Past) tense represents an action or event indefinitely as past; as, Caesar _came_, and _saw_, and _conquered_; or it represents the action definitely as unfinished and continuing at a certain ti_ home when I met him”--_Bullions, P L_, p 45; _E Gr_, 39 ”Soold, silver, wisdos_; others are alike in both numbers; as, _sheep, deer, means, news_”--_Day's School Gram_, p 15 ”The same verb may be transitive in one sense, and intransitive in another; thus, in the sentence, 'He believes my story,' _believes_ is transitive; but in this phrase, 'He believes in God,' it is intransitive”--_Butler's Gram_, p
61 ”Let the divisions be _distinct_; one part should not include another, but each should have its proper place, and be of iether and united, should present a whole”--_Goldsbury's C S Gram_, p 91 ”In the use of the transitive verb there are always _three_ things implied,--the _actor_, the _act_, and the _object_ acted upon In the use of the intransitive there are only _two_--the _subject_ or thing spoken of, and the _state_, or _action_ attributed to it”--_Bullions, E Gram_
”Why labours reason? instinct were as well; Instinct far better; what can choose, can err”
--_Brit Poets_, Vol viii
UNDER RULE III--INDEPENDENT QUOTATIONS
”The sentence overned by him'”--_Hart's Gram_