Part 243 (1/2)
”Here _rests_ his head _upon the lap of earth_, A youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown”--GRAY
”'_Youth_,' here, is in the _no, in this instance, _transitive_,) and is _the subject of the sentence_ Theis, '_A youth here rests his head_,' &c”--_Hart cor_ ”The pronoun _I, as well as_ the interjection _O_, should be written with a capital”
Or: ”The pronoun _I, and_ the interjection _O_, should be written with _capitals_”--_Weld cor_ ”The pronoun _I_ should _always_ be written with a capital”--_Id_ ”He went from _London_ to York”--_Id_ ”An adverb is a _word added_ to _a verb, a participle, an adjective, or an_ other _adverb_, to ”--_Id_ (See Lesson 1st under the General Rule) ”SINGULAR signifies, '_expressing only one;' denoting but_ one person or thing PLURAL, (Latin _pluralis_, fro_ more than one'”--_Weld cor_ ”When the present ends in _e, d_ only is added to forular verbs”--_Id_ ”Synaeresis is the contraction of two syllables into one; as, _seest_ for _seest, drowned_ for _drown-ed_”--_Id_ (See _Brown's Inst_ p 230) ”Words ending in _ee are often inflected byan additional syllable beginning with _e_: as, _see, seest, sees; agree, agreed, agrees_”--_Weld cor_ ”_In_ le vowel, _is_ doubled; as in _staff,_in ie_ drop the _e_, and _change the i into y; as, die, dying_”--_Id_”
One number may be used for _the_ other--_or, rather, the plural ular_; as, _we_ for _I, you_ for _thou_”--_S S Greene cor_ ”STR~OB'ILE, _n_ A pericarp made up of scales that lie _one over an other_”--_Worcester cor_
”Yet ever, froross _alloy_, some tincture of the man”--_Lowth cor_
LESSON V--UNDER VARIOUS RULES
”The possessive case is _usually_ followed by _a_ noun, _expressed or understood_, which is the nastein was as pious, devout, and praying a Christian, as _was_ Nelson, Washi+ngton, or Jefferson; or as _is_ Wellington, Tyler, Clay, or Polk”--_H C Wright cor_ ”A word in the possessive case is not an independent noun, and cannot stand by _itself_”--_J W Wright cor_ ”Mary is not handsoood-nature_ is better than beauty”--_St Quentin cor_ ”After the practice of joining _all_ words together had ceased, _a note_ of distinction _was placed_ at the end of every word”--_L Murray et al cor_ ”Neither Henry nor Charles _dissipates_ his time”--_Hallock cor_ ”'He had taken from the _Christians above_ thirty small castles' KNOLLES:”--_Brown's Institutes_, p 200; _Johnson's Quarto Dict, w What_ ”In _what_ character Butler was admitted, is unknown” Or: ”In _whatever_ character Butler was admitted, _that character_ is unknown”--_Hallock cor_ ”How _are_ the agent of a passive and the object of an active verb often left?”--_Id_ ”By SUBJECT, isis declared” Or: ”By SUBJECT, issignified_”--_Chandler cor_ ”Care should also be taken that _a transitive_ verb _be_ not used _in stead_ of a _neuter or intransitive_; as, _lay_ for _lie, raise_ for _rise, set_ for _sit_, &c”--_Id_ ”On them _depends_ the duration of our Constitution and our country”--_Calhoun cor_ ”In the present sentence, neither the sense nor the ht themselves oppressed by the _law_ that forbid thehtland cor_ ”_So and willingly_ are adverbs _So_ is _an_ adverb of _degree_, and qualifies _willingly Willingly_ is an adverb of _manner_, and qualifies _deceives_”--_Cutler cor_ ”Epicurus, for _experiment's_ sake, confined himself to a narrower diet than that of the severest prisons”--_Id_ ”Derivative words are such as are _formed frooodness, falsehood_”--_Id_ ”The distinction here insisted on is as old as Aristotle, and should not be lost _froht” Or: ”and _it_ should _still_ be _kept in view_”--_Hart cor_ ”The Tenses of the Subjunctive and Potential Moods” Or: ”The Tenses of the Subjunctive and _the_ Potential Mood”--_Id_ ”A triphthong is a union of three vowels, uttered _by a single impulse of the voice_; as, _uoy_ in _buoy_”--_Pardon Davis cor_ ”A common _noun is_ the _naree _i_ ive an additional idea _to_ a verb, _a participle, an adjective_, or _an other_ adverb”--_Id_ ”When several nouns in the possessive case _occur in succession_, each showing possession _of things_ of the san of the possessive case to _each of them_: as, 'He sells _s', cats'_, and _tigers'_ feet are digitated'”--_Id_ ”'A _rail-road_ is _being _;' 'A _school-house_ is _being built_,' should be, 'A _schoolhouse_ is _building_'”--_Id_ ”Auxiliaries _are_ of themselves verbs; _yet_ they resemble, in their character and use, those teres, _serve_ to express the action in the _mood_, tense, _person_, and _number_ desired”--_Id_ ”Please _to_ hold my horse while I speak to my friend”--_Id_ ”If I say, 'Give me _the_ book,' I _demand_ some particular book”--_noble Butler cor_ ”_Here_ are five men”--_Id_ ”_After_ the active _verb_, the object ent ive, in each case, a different shade ofto the verb”--_Hart cor_ ”THAT _may be called_ a Redditive Conjunction, when it answers to so _or_ SUCH”--_Ward cor_ ”He attributes to negligence your _want of success_ in that business”--_Smart cor_ ”_Do_ WILL and GO express but _one_ action?” Or: ”_Does_ '_will go_'
express but _one_ action?”--_Barrett cor_ ”Language is the _principal_ vehicle of thought”--_G Brown's Inst, Pref_, p iii ”_Much_ is applied to things weighed or measured; _many_, to those that are numbered _Elder_ and _eldest_ _are applied_ to persons only; _older_ and _oldest_, to _either_ persons or things”--_Bullions cor_ ”If there are any old ynists_ are so rare, the fault must be attributable to themselves”--_Kirkham cor_ ”The second method, used by the Greeks, has never been the practice of any _other people_ of Europe”--_Sheridan cor_ ”Neither consonant nor vowel _is_ to be dwelt upon beyond _its_ common quantity, when _it closes_ a sentence” Or: ”Neither _consonants_ nor _vowels_ are to be dwelt upon beyond their common quantity, when they close a sentence” Or, better thus: ”Neither _a_ consonant nor _a_ vohen _it closes_ a sentence, _is_ to be _protracted_ beyond _its usual length_”--_Id_ ”Irony is a mode of speech, in which what is said, is the opposite of what is , _and the person or persons_ spoken to, are supposed to be present”--_Wells cor_; also _Murray_ ”A _Noun_ is _a name_, a word used to express the _idea_ of an object”--_Wells cor_ ”A syllable is _such_ a word, or _part_ of a word, as is uttered by one articulation”--_Weld cor_
”Thus wond'rous fair; thyself hoond'rous then!
Unspeakable, who _sitst_ above these heavens”--_Milton_, B v, l 156
”And feel thy _sovran_ vital lamp; but thou _Revisitst_ not these eyes, that roll in vain”--_Id_, iii, 22
”Before all teht _heart_ and pure”--_Id_, i, 18
”In forest wild, in thicket, _brake_, or den”--_Id_, vii, 458
”The rogue and fool by fits _are_ fair and wise; And e'en the best, by fits, what they despise”--_Pope cor_
THE KEY--PART IV--PROSODY
CHAPTER I--PUNCTUATION
SECTION I--THE COMMA
CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE I--OF SIMPLE SENTENCES
”A short simple _sentence_ should _rarely_ be _divided_ by _the_ coular and virtuous education is an inesti”--_L Mur cor_ ”Such equivocal expressions mark an intention to deceive”--_Id_ ”They are _this_ and _that_, with their plurals _these_ and _those_”--_Bullions cor_ ”A nominative and a verb sometimes make a complete sentence; as, He sleeps”--_Felton cor_ ”TENSE expresses the action _as_ connected with certain relations of time; MOOD represents it as _further_ ency, conditionality, &c”--_Bullions cor_ ”The word _noun_ ersoll cor_ ”The present or active participle I explained then”--_Id_ ”Are some verbs used both transitively and intransitively?”--_Cooper cor_ ”Blank verse is verse without rhyme”--_Brown's Institutes_, p 235 ”A distributive adjective denotes each one of a number considered separately”--_Hallock cor_
”And e”
--MILTON: _Ward's Gr_, 158; _Hiley's_, 124
UNDER THE EXCEPTION CONCERNING SIMPLE SENTENCES
”A noun without an _article_ to limit it, is taken in its widest sense”--_Lennie_, p 6 ”To maintain a steady course areat hbour as ourselves, comprehends the whole e”--_Id_ ”A great fortune in the hands of a fool, is a great misfortune”--_Bullions cor_ ”That he should e”--_Farnuhtful”--_Id_ ”That he committed the fault, is s of the same sort or class, are called _Common nouns_; as, _man, woman, day_”--_Bullions cor_ ”That it is our duty to be pious, admits not of any doubt”--_Id_ ”To endure reatof a friend in such circumstances, was certainly a duty”--_Id_ ”That a life of virtue is the safest, is certain”--_Hallock cor_ ”A collective noun denoting the idea of unity, should be represented by a pronoun of the singular number”--_Id_
UNDER RULE II--OF SIMPLE MEMBERS