Part 238 (1/2)

LESSON I--ANY PARTS OF SPEECH

”Such _a_ one, I believe, yours will be proved to be”--_Peet and Farnum cor_ ”Of the distinction between the imperfect and the perfect _tense_, it may be observed,” &c--_L Ainsworth cor_ ”The subject is certainly worthy _of_ consideration”--_Id_ ”By this uity and controversy _on this point are avoided_”--_Bullions cor_ ”The perfect participle, in English, has both an active and _a_ passive signification” Better: ”The perfect participle, in English, has _sonification”--_Id_ ”The old house _has_ at length fallen down”--_Id_ ”The king, the lords, and _the_ coovernrees with the person next _to_ it” Better: ”The singular verb agrees _in_ person with _that noloves in _Jareat”--_Id_ ”The conjugation of a verb is the na _of_ its several _ular order_”--_Id_ ”The _long-reuest”--_Id_ ”Participles refer to nouns _or_ pronouns”--_Id_ ”F has _a_ uniform sound, in every position, except in OF” Better: ”F has _one unvaried_ sound, in every position, except in OF”--_E J Hallock cor_ ”There are three genders; the masculine, the feminine, and _the_ neuter”--_Id_ ”When SO _and_ THAT occur together, sometimes the particle SO is taken as an adverb”--_Id_ ”The definition of the articles _shows_ that they ”--_Id_ ”The _auxiliary_, SHALL, WILL, or SHOULD, is ile-rhymed_ trochaic oreeably_ to this, we read of na blotted out of God's book”--_Burder, Hallock, and Webster, cor_ ”The first person is _that which denotes the speaker_”--_Inst_, p 32

”Accent is the laying _of_ a peculiar stress of the voice, on a certain letter or syllable in a word”--_L Murray's Graht”--_Felton cor_ ”You _were_ loved”--_Id_ ”The nominative and _the_ objective end _alike_”--_T Smith cor_ ”The _numbers_ of pronouns, like those of substantives, are two; the singular and the plural”--_Id_ ”_I_ is called the pronoun of the first person, _because it represents_ the person speaking”--_Frost cor_ ”The essential eleerundive and an adjective”--_Hazen cor_ ”_Wealth_ is no justification for such impudence”--_Id_ ”_That he was_ a soldier in the revolution, is not doubted”--_Id_ ”_Fishi+ng_ is the chief employment of the inhabitants”--_Id_ ”The chief e _of_ fish”--_Id_ ”The cold weather did not prevent the _work fro finished at the time specified”--_Id_ ”The _man's_ former viciousness caused _him to be_ suspected of this crime”--_Id_ ”But person and number, applied to verbs, _mean_ certain terminations”--_Barrett cor_ ”Robert _felled_ a tree”--_Id_ ”Charles raised _hiht not be _a_ useless waste of time”--_Id_ ”Neither will you have that is and works of others, which _characterizes_ the vulgar”--_Id_ ”_I_ is _of_ the first person, because it denotes the speaker”--_Ib_ ”I would refer the student to _Hedge's_ or _Watts's_ Logic”--_Id_ ”Hedge's _Watts's_, Kirwin's, and Collard's Logic”--_Parker and Fox cor_ ”Letters _that_ make a full and perfect sound of themselves, are called vowels” Or: ”_The_ letters _which_ ular and _a_ plural construction”--_Id_ ”For he _beholds_ (or _beholdeth_) thy beams no more”--_Id Carthon_ ”To this sentiment the Committee _have_ the candour to incline, as it will appear by their _su-up_”--_Macpherson cor_ ”This _reduces_ the point at issue to a narrow colish _set_ foot upon the soil”--_Exiles cor_ ”The arrangement of its different parts _is_ easily retained by the memory”--_Hiley cor_ ”The words employed are the most appropriate _that_ could have been selected”--_Id_ ”To prevent it _fro!”--_Id_ ”Webster has been followed in preference to others, where _he_ differs from them” Or: ”_Webster's Grammar_ has been followed in preference to others, where _it_ differs froation are often mistaken _the_ one _for the_ other”--_Buchanan cor_ ”When all nature is hushed in sleep, and neither love nor guilt _keeps its_ vigils”--_Felton cor_ Or thus:--

”When all nature's hush'd asleep

Nor love, nor guilt, _doth_ vigils keep”

LESSON II--ANY PARTS OF SPEECH

”A _Versifier_ and _a_ Poet are two different things”--_Brightland cor_ ”Those qualities will arise fro_ of the subject”--_Id_ ”Therefore the explanation of NETWORK is _not noticed_ here”--_Mason cor_ ”When emphasis or pathos _is_ necessary to be expressed”--_Humphrey cor_ ”Whether this mode of punctuation is correct, _or_ whether it _is_ proper to close the sentence with the mark of admiration, may be made a question”--_Id_ ”But not every writer in those days _was_ thus correct”--_Id_ ”The sounds of A, in English orthoepy, are no _fewer_ than four”--_Id_ ”Our present code of rules _is_ thought to be generally correct” Or: ”_The rules in_ our present code are thought to be generally correct”--_Id_ ”To prevent _it fro into _an other_”--_Id_ ”_Shakspeare_, perhaps, the greatest poetical genius _that_ England has produced”--_Id_ ”This I will illustrate by exa so_, a few preliminary remarks may be necessary”--_Id_ ”All such are entitled to two accents each, and some of _them_ to two accents nearly equal”--_Id_ ”But some cases of the kind are so plain, that no one _needs_ to exercise (or, need exercise) his _judgement_ therein”--_Id_ ”I have _forborne_ to use the word”--_Id_ ”The propositions, 'He ht study,' 'He could study,' _affirm_ an ability or power to study”--_E J Hallock cor_ ”The divisions of the tenses _have_ occasioned gra a fa this subject, _onelearners”--_Wells cor_ ”The definitions and rules of different grammarians were carefully compared with _one an_ other:” or--”_one_ with _an_ other”--_Id_ ”So as not wholly to prevent so”--_Sheridan cor_ ”Letters of the Alphabet, not yet _noticed_”--_Id_ ”'IT _is sad_,' 'IT _is strange_,' &c, _seee, &c”--_Well-Wishers cor_ ”The winning is easier than the preserving _of_ a conquest”--_Same_ ”The United States _find theion of country at the west”--_H Mann cor_ ”One or more letters placed before a word _are_ a prefix”--_S W Clark cor_ ”One or more letters added to a word, _are_ a Suffix”--_Id_ ”_Two thirds_ of my hair _have_ fallen off” Or: ”My hair has, two thirds of it, fallen off”--_Id_ ”'Suspecting' describes _us, the speakers_, by expressing, incidentally, an act of _ours_”--_Id_ ”Daniel's predictions are now _about_ being fulfilled” Or thus: ”Daniel's predictions are now _receiving their fulfillment_”--_Id_ ”His _scholarshi+p_ entitles him to respect”--_Id_ ”I doubted _whether he had_ been a soldier”--_Id_ ”_The_ taking _of_ aht it to be him; but it was not _he_”--_Id_ ”It was not _I_ that you saw”--_Id_ ”Not to knohat happened before you _were_ born, is always to be a boy”--_Id_ ”How long _were_ you going? Three days”--_Id_ ”The qualifying adjective is placed next _to_ the noun”--_Id_ ”All went but _I_”--_Id_ ”This is _a_ parsing _of_ their own language, and not _of_ the author's”--_Wells cor_ ”_Those_ nouns which denote ender” Or: ”Nouns _that_ denote ender”--_Wells, late Ed_ ”_Those_ nouns which denote feender” Or: ”Nouns _that_ denote feender”--_Wells, late Ed_ ”When a co_ more than two objects of the saree is eoes_ before, the additional letter _d_ or _t_, in this contracted form, _coalesces_ into one letter with the radical _d_ or _t_”--_Dr Johnson cor_ ”Write words which will shohat kind of _house_ you live in--what kind of _book_ you hold in your hand--what kind of _day_ it is”--_Weld cor_ ”One word or more _are_ often joined to nouns or pronouns to ”--_Id_ ”_Good_ is an adjective; it explains the quality or character of every person _to who to which, it is applied” Or:--”of every person or thing _that_ it is applied to”--_Id_ ”A great public as well as private advantage arises fro _of_ himself to that occupation which he prefers, and for which he is specially fitted”--_Wayland, Wells, and Weld, cor_ ”There was a chance _for_ him _to recover_ his senses” Or: ”There was a chance _that he ht recover_ his senses”--_Wells and Macaulay cor_ ”Thisword iular expressions occasionally to be y, _sanctions_”--_Id_ ”He added an anecdote of _Quin_ relieving Thomson fro Thomson fro _of_ Thomson from prison” Or better: ”He _also told how Quin relieved_ Thomson from prison”--_Id_ ”The daily labour of her hands _procures_ for her all that is necessary”--_Id_ ”_That it is I, should_ e in your determination”--_Hart cor_ ”The classification of words into what _are_ called the Parts of Speech”--_Weld cor_ ”Such licenses ures”--_Id_

”Liberal, not lavish, is kind Nature's _hand_”--_Beattie_

”They fall successive, and successive _rise_”--_Pope_

LESSON III--ANY PARTS OF SPEECH

”A Figure of Etyy is _an_ intentional deviation _from_ the usual forure of Syntax is _an_ intentional deviation _from_ the usual construction of a word”--_See Brown's Inst_, p 230 ”Synecdoche is _the na_ for a part, or a part for the whole”--_Weld cor_ ”Apostrophe is a _turning-off_[547] froular course of the subject, to address so pupils will perfor interest and facility, and will unconsciously gain, in a little tie_, than _they_ can acquire by a drilling of several years in the usual routine of parsing”--_Id_ ”A few _rules_ of construction are euide _the pupil_ in the exercise of parsing”--_Id_ ”The naht of, or spoken of, is a noun”--_Id_ ”A dot, rese our period, is used between every _tords_, as well as at the close of _each verse_”--_W Day cor_ ”_The_ casting _of_ types in matrices was invented by Peter Schoeffer, in 1452”--_Id_ ”On perusing it, he said, that, so far [_was it_] _frouilt [that] it positively established his innocence”--_Id_ ”By printing the nominative and verb in Italic letters, _we shall enable_ the reader to distinguish thelance”--_Id_ ”It is well, no doubt, to avoid unnecessary words”--_Id_ ”_I_a friend the other day, he said to ?'”--_Id_ ”To John, apples _were_ first denied; then _they were_ promised _to him_; then _they were_ offered _to him_”--_Lennie cor_ ”Admission was denied _him_”--_Wells cor_ ”A pardon _was_ offered _to them_”--_L Murray's Gram_, 8vo, p 183 ”A new _potato_ was this day shown me”--_Darwin, Webster, Frazee, and Weld, cor_ ”_Those_ nouns or pronouns which denote ender”--_S S Greene, cor_ ”There are three degrees of comparison; the positive, _the_ comparative, and _the_ superlative”--_Id_ ”The first two refer to direction; the third _refers_ to locality”--_Id_ ”The following are some of the verbs which take a direct and _an_ indirect object”--_Id_ ”I was not aware _that he was_ the judge of the supreme court”--_Id_ ”An indirect question may refer to _any_ of the five elements of a declarative sentence”--_Id_ ”I am not sure that he will be present”--_Id_ ”We left _New York_ on Tuesday”--_Id_ ”He left _the city_, as he told me, before the arrival of the steamer”--_Id_ ”We told him that he must leave _us_;”--_Id_ ”We told him to leave _us_”--_Id_ ”Because he was unable to persuade the ust”--_Id_ ”He left _the co, or declaring, or denying _of_ any thing, is called the indicative _”--_Weld cor_ ”This took place at our friend Sir Joshua _Reynolds's_”--_Id_ ”The_lady , will be the subject of _an other_ paper”--_Id_ ”Very little time is necessary for _Johnson to conclude_ a treaty with the bookseller”--_Id_ ”My father is not now sick; but if he _were_, your services would be welcome”--_Chandler's Coin to write or speak, we ought to fix in our minds a clear conception of the end to be aiht hand; and, in her left hand, _are_ riches and honour”--See _Proverbs_, iii, 16 ”The active and _the_ passive present express different ideas”--_Bullions cor_ ”An _Iraph,) is a diphthong in which only one of the vowels _is_ sounded”--_Fowler cor_ (See G Brown's definition) ”The real origin of the words _is_ to be sought in the Latin”--_Fowler cor_ ”What sort of alphabet the Gothic languages possess, we knohat sort of alphabet they require, we can determine”--_Id_ ”The Runic alphabet, whether borrowed or invented by the early Goths, is of greater antiquity than either the oldest Teutonic or the Moeso-Gothic _alphabet_”--_Id_ ”Colo-Saxon, HIS was common to both the masculine and _the_ Neuter _Gender_”--_Id_ ”When time, number, or dimension, _is_ specified, the adjective follows the substantive”--_Id_ ”Nor pain, nor grief nor anxious fear, _Invades_ thy bounds”--_Id_ ”To Brighton, the Pavilion lends a _lath-and-plaster_ grace”--_Fowler cor_ ”Froiven to nouns_ but one person, the THIRD”--_D C Allen cor_

”For it seeuard and cherish E'en the ard dreamer--_me_”--_Anon cor_

CHAPTER XII--GENERAL REVIEW

CORRECTIONS UNDER ALL THE PRECEDING RULES AND NOTES

LESSON I--ARTICLES

”And they took stones, and made _a_ heap”--ALGER'S BIBLE: _Gen_, xxxi, 46 ”And I do know many fools, that stand in better place”--_Shak cor_ ”It is a strong antidote to the turbulence of passion, and _the_ violence of pursuit”--_Kaular or _a_ plural application”--_Wright cor_ ”He has gained a fair and honourable reputation”--_Id_ ”There are two general forms, called the solemn and _the_ familiar style” Or:--”called the solemn and familiar _styles_”--_Sanborn cor_ ”Neither the article nor _the_ preposition can be oht cor_ ”A close union is also observable between the subjunctive and _the_ potential _mood_”--_Id_ ”Should we render service equally to a friend, _a_ neighbour, and an enely”--_Sheridan cor_ ”There is _a_ uniforns”--_Id_ ”A traveller remarks most _of the_ objects _which_ he sees”--_Jamieson cor_ ”What is the name of the river on which London stands? _Thames_”--_G B_ ”We sometimes find the last line of a couplet or _a_ triplet stretched out to twelve syllables”--_Adam cor_ ”_The_ nouns which follow active verbs, are not in the nominative case”--_David Blair cor_ ”It is a soleoodof riches is a pleasant tor quoted” Or better: ”It is worth quoting”--_Coleridge cor_ ”COUNCIL is a noun which adht cor_ ”To exhibit the connexion between the Old _Testament_ and the New”--_Keith cor_ ”An apostrophe discovers the omission of a letter or _of_ letters”--_Guy cor_ ”He is ied, _a_ hero”--_Pope cor_ ”Which is the sahtland cor_ ”pronouns, as will be seen hereafter, have _three_ distinct _cases; the_ nominative, _the_ possessive, and _the_ objective”--_D Blair cor_ ”A word of many syllables is called _a_ polysyllable”--_Beck cor_ ”Nouns have two nuular and _the_ plural”--_Id_ ”They have three genders; _the_ masculine, _the_ feminine, and _the_ neuter”--_Id_ ”They have three cases; _the_ nominative, _the_ possessive, and _the_ objective”--_Id_ ”Personal pronouns have, like nouns, two nuenders; _the_ masculine, _the_ feminine, and _the_ neuter;--_three_ cases; _the_ nominative, _the possessive_, and _the_ objective”--_Id_ ”He ular froh they may be able to meet every reproach which any one of their fellows may prefer”--_Chal such _a_ one as Paul the aged”--_Bible cor_; also _Webster_ ”A people that jeoparded their lives unto death”--_Bible cor_ ”By preventing too great _an_ accumulation of seed within too narrow _a_ compass”--_The Friend cor_ ”Who fills up the middle space between the animal and _the_ intellectual nature, the visible and _the_ invisible world”--_Addison cor_ ”The Psalement of words”--_Murray cor_ ”On _an_ other table, were _a_ ewer and _a_ vase, likewise of gold”--_Mirror cor_ ”TH is said to have two sounds, _a_ sharp and _a_ flat”--_Wilson cor_ ”_The_ SECTION (--) is _so of a chapter into lesser parts”--_Brightland cor_ ”Try it in a dog, or _a_ horse, or any other creature”--_Locke cor_ ”But particularly in _the_ learning of languages, there is _the_ least occasion _to pose_ children”--_Id_ ”_Of_ what kind is _the_ noun RIVER, and why?”--_R C Smith cor_ ”Is WILLIAM'S a proper or _a_ common noun?”--_Id_ ”What kind of article, then, shall we call _the_?” Or better: ”What then shall we call the article _the_?”--_Id_

”Each burns alike, who can, or cannot write, Or with a rival's, or _a_ eunuch's spite”--_Pope cor_

LESSON II--NOUNS, OR CASES

”And there _are_ stainations _ideas_ that follow theht_”--_Locke cor_ ”There's not a wretch that lives on common charity, but's happier than _I_”--_Ven Pres cor_ ”But they overwhelnorant of them”--_H Mann cor_ ”I have received a letter from my cousin, _her_ that was here last week”--_Inst_, p 129 ”_Gentlemen's_ houses are seldom without variety of company”--_Locke cor_ ”Because Fortune has laid them below the level of others, at their _masters_' feet”--_Id_ ”We blamed neither _John's_ nor Mary's delay”--_Nixon cor_ ”The book ritten by order _of Luther_ the _reformer_”--_Id_ ”I saw on the table of the saloon Blair's seret _whose_,) and [_about the room_] a set of noisy children”--_Byron cor_ ”Or saith he it altogether for our _sake_?”--_Bible cor_ ”He was not aware _that the Duke was_ his competitor”--_Sanborn cor_ ”It is no condition of an adjective, that _the word_ must be placed before a noun” Or: ”It is no condition _on which a word becomes_ an adjective, that it h their reason corrected the wrong _ideas which_ they had taken in”--_Locke cor_ ”It was _he that_ taught me to hate slavery”--_Morris cor_ ”It is _he_ and his kindred, who live upon the labour of others”--_Id_ ”Pay--(of _hi--) to e think it due”--_C Leslie cor_ ”When we coersoll cor_ ”The folloords, and parts of words, must be _noticed_”--_Priestley cor_ ”Hence tears and commiseration are so often _employed_”--_Dr H Blair cor_ ”JOHN-A-NOKES, _n_ A fictitious nas”--_A Chal_ rasped_”--_B F Fisk cor_ ”And such other na_ terrible and hurtful”--_Locke cor_ ”Every learner then would surely be glad to be spared _froue”--_Pike cor_ ”_It_ is not the owning of _one's_ dissent froainst”--_Locke cor_ ”A man that cannot fence, will be amesters'_ company, and will not be half so apt to stand upon _punctilios_”--_Id_ ”From such persons it is, _that_ onefroenerally considered to be twice _as long as_ a short one”--_D Blair cor_ ”I is of the first person, and _the_ singular nuular HE, SHE, or IT, is _of the_ third person singular WE is _of the_ first person plural YE or YOU is _of the_ second person plural THEY is _of the_ third person plural”--_Kirkham cor_ ”This actor, doer, or producer of the action, is _denoted by some word in_ the nominative _case_”--_Id_ ”_nobody_ can think, _that_ a boy of three or seven years _of age_ should be argued with as a grown man”--_Locke cor_ ”This was in _the house of_ one of the Pharisees, not in Simon the leper's”--_Hammond cor_ ”Irey top shall tre”--_Milton, P L_, xii, 227 ”_Of_ what gender is _woender, then, is _man_, and why?”--_Id_ ”Who is _this I; whom_ do you mean when you say _I_?”--_R W

Green cor_ ”It _has_ a pleasant air, but _the soil_ is barren”--_Locke cor_ ”You o from Galilee to Jerusalem”--_W

Whiston cor_ ”And that which is left of the , shall be Aaron's and his _sons'_”--FRIENDS' BIBLE

”For none in all the world, without a lie, Can say _of_ this, '_'T_is mine,' but _Bunyan_, I”--_Bunyan cor_

LESSON III--ADJECTIVES

”When he can be their remembrancer and advocate _at all assizes_ and sessions”--_Leslie cor_ ”DOING denotes _every_ manner of action; as, to dance, to play, to write, &c”--_Buchanan cor_ ”Seven _feet_ long,”--”eight _feet_ long,”--”fifty _feet_ long”--_W Walker cor_ ”Nearly the whole of _these_ twenty-five millions of dollars is a dead loss to the nation”--_Fowler cor_ ”Two negatives destroy _each_ other”--_R