Part 245 (1/2)

”pronouns agree with the nouns for which they stand, in gender, number, and person”--_Butler and Bullions cor_ ”In the first two exa equivalent; in the last [_one_], it is _thing_”--_N Butler cor_ ”In what character he was ad, is not known”--_Id_ ”In the preceding examples, _John, Caesar_, and _Jaenerally used to denote assent, _in answer_ to a question”--_Id_ ”_That_, in its origin, is the passive participle of the Anglo-Saxon verb _thean_, [_thegan, thicgan, thicgean_, or _thigan_,] _to take_”--_Id_ ”But, in all these sentences, _as_ and _so_ are adverbs”--_Id_ ”After an interjection or _an_ exclamatory sentence, is _usually_ placed the mark of exclamation”--_D Blair cor_ ”Intransitive verbs, from their nature, can have no distinction of voice”--_Bullions cor_ ”To the inflection of verbs, belong Voices, Moods, Tenses, Numbers, and Persons”--_Id_ ”_As_ and _so_, in the antecedent member of a comparison, are properly Adverbs” Better: ”_As_ OR _so_, in the antecedent member of a co Exercise, point out the words in apposition”--_Id_ ”In the following Exercise, point out the noun or pronoun denoting the possessor”--_Id_ ”_Its_ is not found in the Bible, except by misprint”--_Brown's Institutes_, p 49 ”No one's interest is concerned, except es, there are four concords”--_St Quentin cor_ ”In illustration of these reht ement of the emphasis, depends the life of pronunciation”--_J S Hart and L Murray cor_ See _Blair's Rhet_, p 330

UNDER RULE XV--OF INTERJECTIONS

”Behold, he is in the desert”--_Friend's Bible_ ”And Lot said unto theer's Bible_ ”Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and er's_

”Behold, I come quickly”--_Rev_, xxii, 7 ”Lo, I am with you always”--_Day cor_ ”And, lo, I aer's Bible: Day cor_; also _Scott and Bruce_ ”Ha, ha, ha; how laughable that is!”--_Bullions cor_ ”Interjections of laughter; _ha, ha, Ha_”--_Wright cor_

UNDER RULE XVI--OF WORDS REPEATED

”Lend, lend your wings!” &c--_Pope_ ”To bed, to bed, to bed There is a knocking at the gate Come, come, come What is done, cannot be undone To bed, to bed, to bed”--SHAKSPEARE: _Burghs Speaker_, p 130 ”I will roar, that the duke shall cry, Encore, encore, let him roar, let him roar, once more, once more”--_Id, ib_, p 136

”Vital spark of heavenly flame!

Quit, oh quit this uish, When we love, and e languish”--_Addison_

”Praise to God, immortal praise, For the love that crowns our days!”--_Barbauld_

UNDER RULE XVII--OF DEPENDENT QUOTATIONS

”Thus, of an infant, we say, '_It_ is a lovely creature'”--_Bullions cor_ ”No being can state a falsehood in saying, '_I am_;' for no one can utter _this_, if it is not true”--_Cardell cor_ ”I know they will cry out against this, and say, 'Should he pay,' means, 'If he should pay'”--_O B

Peirce cor_ ”For instance, e say, '_The house is building_,' the advocates of the new theory ask,--'building _what?_' We hs_ well,'--ploughs _what?_ 'Wheat _sells_ well,'--sells _what?_ If _usage_ allows us to say, 'Wheat _sells_ at a dollar,' in a sense that is not active; why _ at a dollar' in a sense that is not active?”--_Hart cor_ ”_Man_ is accountable,' equals, '_Mankind_ are accountable'”--_Barrett cor_ ”Thus, e say, 'He ,'

_may_ is the real verb; the other parts are verbs by name only”--_Smart cor_ ”Thus we say, _an apple, an hour_, that tel sounds ether”--_Id_ ”It would be as improper to say, _an unit_, as to say, _an youth_; to say, _an one_, as to say, _an wonder_”--_Id_ ”When we say, 'He died for the truth,' _for_ is a preposition”--_Id_ ”We do not say, 'I one yesterday'”--_Id_ ”By student, we understand, one who has by hts of academical citizenshi+p; but, by _bursche_, we understand, one who has already spent a certain time at the university”--_Howitt cor_

SECTION II--THE SEMICOLON

CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE I--OF COMPLEX MEMBERS

”The buds spread into leaves, and the blossorow, nor who causes the up from the bosom of the earth”--_Day cor_ ”But he used his eloquence chiefly against Philip, king of Macedon; and, in several orations, he stirred up the Athenians to ainst him”--_Bullions cor_ ”For the sake of euphony, the _n_ is dropped before a consonant; and, because in with a consonant, this of course is its more common form”--_Id_ ”But if I say, 'Will _a_ man be able to carry this burden?' it is ed; the reference is not to nuht be, 'No; but a horse will'”--_Id_ ”In direct discourse, a noun used by the speaker or writer to designate himself [in the special relation of speaker or writer], is said to be of the _first_ person; used to designate the person addressed, it is said to be of the _second_ person; and, when used to designate a person or thing [merely] spoken of, it is said to be of the _third_ person”--_Id_ ”Vice stings us, even in our pleasures; but virtue consoles us, even in our pains”--_Day cor_ ”Vice is infah in a peasant”--_Id_ ”Every word that is the na, is a _noun_; because, 'A noun is the na'”--_Bullions cor_

”This is the shich he did the deed; And that, the shi+eld by which he was defended”--_Bucke cor_

UNDER RULE II--OF SIMPLE MEMBERS ”A deathlike paleness was diffused over his countenance; a chilling terror convulsed his frame; his voice burst out at intervals into broken accents”--_Jerningham cor_ ”The Lacedemonians never traded; they knew no luxury; they lived in houses built of rough materials; they _ate_ at public tables; fed on black broth; and despised every thing effeent; society is the principal”--_Wayland cor_ ”The essentials of speech were anciently supposed to be sufficiently designated by the _Noun_ and the _Verb_; to which was subsequently added the _Conjunction_”--_Bullions cor_ ”The first faint gleaht in its mind, are but reflections from the parents' own intellect; the first ious parental fountain; the first aspirations of soul, are but the wars of the parental spirit”--_Jocelyn cor_ ”_Older_ and _oldest_ refer to ht by birth _Farther_ and _farthest_ denote place or distance; _further_ and _furthest_, quantity or addition”--_Bullions cor_ ”Let the divisions be _natural_; such as obviously suggest then; and _such as may_ be easily remembered”--_Goldsbury cor_

”Gently make haste, of labour not afraid; A hundred times consider what you've said”--_Dryden cor_

UNDER RULE III--OF APPOSITION, &C

(1) ”Adjectives are divided [, in Frost's Practical Gra _quality_, and adjectives denoting _nu to so_ adjectives, and _li_ adjectives”--_N Butler cor_ (3-5) ”There are three genders; the _masculine_, the _feminine_, and the _neuter_”--_Frost et al cor_; also _L Mur et al_; also _Hendrick: Inst_, p 35 (6) ”The Singular denotes _one_; the Plural, _more_ than one”--_Hart cor_ (7) ”There are three cases; viz, the Nominative, the Possessive, and the Objective”--_Hendrick cor_ (8) ”Nouns have three cases; the _nominative_, the _possessive_, and the _objective_”--_Kirkhalish, nouns have three cases; the _nominative_, the _possessive_, and the _objective_”--_Smith cor_ (10) ”Gray, Syntax, Prosody”--_Hazen_ (11) ”It is divided into four parts; viz, Orthography, Etyy, Syntax, Prosody”--_Mur et al cor_ (12) ”It is divided into four parts; viz, Orthography Etyy, Syntax, Prosody”--_Bucke cor_ (13) ”It is divided into four parts; nay, Syntax, and Prosody”--_Lennie, Bullions, et al_

(14) ”It is divided into four parts; viz, Orthography, Etyy, Syntax, and Prosody”--_Hendrick cor_ (15) ”Gray, Syntax, and Prosody”--_Chandler cor_ (16) ”It is divided into four parts; Orthography, Etyy, Syntax, and Prosody”--_Cooper and Frost cor_ (17) ”English Graraphy, Ety cor_ (18) ”Temperance leads to happiness; intemperance, to erates a man's virtues; an enemy, his crimes”--_Hiley cor_; also _Murray_ (21) ”Many writers use a plural noun after the second of two nues_ are torn'”--_Bullions cor_ (22) ”Of these, [i e, of _Cases_,] the Latin has six; the Greek, five; the German, four; the Saxon, six; the French, three; &c”--_Id_

”In _ing_ it ends, when doing is expressed; In _d, t, n_, when suffering's confessed”--_Brightland cor_