Part 179 (2/2)
”When _this_ or _these, that_ or _those_, refers to a preceding sentence; _this_, or _these_, refers to the latter member or term; _that_, or _those_, to the former”--_Churchill's Gra of them [i e of plants] beca their kinds his first knowledge”--_N Butler's Gram_, p 44
”After the period used with abbreviations we should employ other points, if the construction demands it; thus, after Esq in the last example, there should be, besides a period, a comma”--_Ib_, p 212
”In the plural, the verb is the same in all the persons; and hence the principle in _Rem_ 5, under Rule iii [that the first or second person takes precedence,] is not applicable to verbs”--_Ib_, p 158
”Rex and Tyrannus are of very different characters The one rules his people by laws to which they consent; the other, by his absolute will and power: _that_ is called freedom, this, _tyranny_”--_Murray's Key_, 8vo, p
190
”A noun is the na, which can be known, or oodness; charity”--_Cooper's Plain and Pract Gray treats of the classification of words; their various modifications and derivations”--_Day's School Grah acquaintance with theof words and phrases, as well as of all their corresponding connexions”--_W Day's Punctuation_, p 31
”All objects which belong to neither the male nor female kind are called neuter”--_Weld's Gra to neither the ender”--_Weld's Graed_, p 51
”The analysis of the Sounds in the English language presented in the preceding statements are sufficiently exact for the purpose in hand Those ish to pursue it further can consult Dr Rush's admirable work, 'The Philosophy of the Human Voice'”--_Fowlers E Gram_, 1850, --65 ”nobody confounds the name of _w_ or _y_ with their sound or phonetic import”--_Ib_, --74
”Order is Heaven's first law; and this confest, Soreater than the rest”--_Ib_, p 96
LESSON II--UNDER VARIOUS RULES
”In adjectives of one syllable, the Co _-er_ to the positive; and the Superlative by adding _-est_; as, _sweet, sweeter, sweetest_”--_Bullions, Prin of E Gram_, p 19
”In_er_ or _r_ to the positive, and the superlative by adding _est_ or _st_; as, _tall, taller, tallest; wise, wiser, wisest_”--_Id, Pract Les_, p 24
”By this method the confusion and unnecessary labor occasioned by studying graes, constructed on different principles is avoided, the study of one is rendered a profitable introduction to the study of another, and an opportunity is furnished to the enquiring student of coraree, and wherein they differ”--_Bullions, Prin of E
Graer portion should be assigned for each recitation than the class can easily iven out”--_Id, ib_, p viii ”The acquisitions made in every new lesson should be rivetted and secured by repeated _revisals_”--_Id, ib_, p
viii
”The personal pronouns may be parsed briefly thus; _I_, the first personal pronoun, ular, the nominative _His_, the third personal pronoun, ular, the possessive, &c”--_Bullions, E Gram_, p 23: _Pract Les_, p 28
”When the male and female are expressed by distinct terms; as, _shepherd, shepherdess_, theboth male and female, and is always to be used when the office, occupation, profession, &c, and not the sex of the individual, is chiefly to be expressed The feminine term is used only when the discrimination, of sex is indispensably necessary Thus, when it is said 'the Poets of this country are distinguished by correctness of taste,' the term 'Poet' clearly includes both male and female writers of poetry”--_Id, E Gram_, p 12; _his analyt and Pract Gram_, 24
”Nouns and pronouns, connected by conjunctions, ersoll's Gram_, p 78 ”Verbs, connected by conjunctions, must be in the same moods and tenses, and, when in the subjunctive present, they must be in the same form”--_Ib_, p 112
”This will habituate hi of the author, and without any great effort on his part, impress indelibly on his ive After the exercises under the rule have been gone through as directed in the note page 96, theyan emphasis on the correctionat the next recitation”--_Bullions, Prin of E Gram_, 2d Ed Revised and Cor, p viii
”Man, but for _that_, no action _could_ attend And but for _this_, be _thoughtful_ to no end”
--_O B Peirce's Gram_, Pref p 5
LESSON III--UNDER VARIOUS RULES
”'Johnson the bookseller and stationer,' indicates that the bookseller and the stationer are epithets belonging to the same person; 'the bookseller and the stationer' would indicate that they belong to different persons”--_Bullions, E Gram_, p 127
”_Past_ is an adjective; _passed_, the past tense or perfect participle of the verb, and they ought not, as is frequently done, to be confounded with each other”--_Id, ib_, p 148