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MIXED EXAMPLES CORRECTED
”In old books, _i_ is often used for _j; v_, for _u; vv_, for _w_; and _ii_ or _ij_, for _y_”--_Hart cor_ ”The for of letters into words and syllables, is also called _Spelling_”--_Id_ ”labials are formed chiefly by the _lips_; dentals, by the _teeth_; palatals, by the palate; gutturals, by the _throat_; nasals, by the _nose_; and linguals, by the _tongue_”--_Id_ ”The labials are _p, b, f, v_; the dentals, _t, d, s, z_; the palatals, _g_ soft and _j_; the gutturals, _k, q_, and _c_ and _g_ hard; the nasals, _uals, _l_ and _r_”--_Id_ ”Thus, '_The_finished_ his letter, will carry it to the _post-office_'”--_Id_ ”Thus, in the sentence, '_He_ had a dagger concealed under his cloak,' _concealed_ is passive, signifying _being concealed_; but, in the foroes to make up a form the force of which is active”--_Id_ ”Thus, in Latin, '_He_ had concealed the dagger,' would be, '_Pugioneer concealed,' would be, '_Pugionem abditum habebat_”--_Id_ ”_Here_, for instance, means, 'in this place;' _now_, 'at this time;' &c”--_Id_ ”Here _when_ both declares the _time_ of the action, and so is an adverb; and also _connects_ the two verbs, and so _resembles_ a conjunction”--_Id_ ”These words were all, no doubt, originally other parts of speech; viz, verbs, nouns, and adjectives”--_Id_ ”The principal parts of a sentence, are the subject, the attribute, and the object; in other words, the nominative, the verb, and the objective”--_Id_ ”Thus, the adjective is connected with the noun; the adverb, with the verb or adjective; _the pronoun_, with _its antecedent_; &c” ”_Between_ refers to two; _a_, to more than two”--_Id_ ”_At_ is used after a verb of rest; _to_, after a verb of motion”--_Id_ ”Verbs are of three kinds; Active, Passive, and Neuter”--_L Murray_ [Active] ”Verbs are divided into two classes; Transitive and Intransitive”--_Hendrick cor_ ”The Parts of Speech, in the English language, are nine; viz, _the_ Article, Noun, Adjective, pronoun, Verb, Adverb, Preposition, Interjection, and Conjunction”--_Bullions cor_ See _Lennie_ ”Of these, the Noun, pronoun, and Verb, are declined; the rest are indeclinable”--_Bullions, analyt and Pract Gram_, p 18 ”The first expression is called 'the _Active_ form;' the second, 'the _Passive_ fore to save; And he that scorns it, is himself a slave”--_Cowper cor_
SECTION III--THE COLON
CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE I--OF ADDITIONAL REMARKS
”_Of_ is a preposition: it expresses the relation between _fear_ and _Lord_”--_Bullions cor_ ”Wealth and poverty are both temptations to man: _that_ tends to excite pride; _this_, discontention 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 to the skies”--_Murray's Key_, 8vo, p 189 ”Love not idleness: it destroys ersoll cor_ ”Children, obey your parents: 'Honour thy father and mother,' is the first co-place_ and my shi+eld; I hope in thy _word_”--_Psalm_ cxix, 114 ”The sun shall not sht The Lord _shall_ preserve _thee_ from _all_ evil: _he shall preserve thy_ soul”--_Psalhest place in the class of objects a which she is numbered--the nations of antiquity: she is one of them”--_Bullions, E Gram_, p 114
”From short (as usual) and disturb'd repose, I wake: how happy they ake no , N T_, p 3
UNDER RULE II--OF GREATER PAUSES
”A taste _of_ a thing, implies actual enjoyment of it; but a tase [sic--KTH] _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 cor_ ”The Indicative : as, 'He _loves_;' 'He _is_ loved:' or it asks a question; as, '_Lovest_ thou me?'”--_Id and Lennie cor_; also _Murray_ ”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 old, silver, wisdos_: others are alike in both numbers; as, _sheep, deer, means, news_”--_Day cor_ ”The same verb may be transitive in one sense, and intransitive in an other: thus, in the sentence, 'He believes my story,' _believes_ is transitive; but, in this phrase, 'He believes in God,' it is intransitive”--_Butler cor_ ”Let the divisions be _distinct_: one part should not include _an other_, but each should have its proper place, and be of iether and united, should present a _perfect_ whole”--_Goldsbury cor_ ”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 _the thing_ spoken of, and the _state_ or _action_ attributed to it”--_Bullions cor_
”Why labours reason? instinct were as well; Instinct, far better: what can choose, can err”--_Young_, vii, 622
UNDER RULE III--OF INDEPENDENT QUOTATIONS
”The sentence overned by him'”--_Hart cor_ ”Always remember this ancient proverb: 'Know thyself'”--_Hallock cor_ ”Consider this sentence: 'The boy runs swiftly'”--_Frazee cor_ ”The comparative is used thus: 'Greece was more polished than any other nation of antiquity' The same idea is expressed by the superlative, when the word _other_ is left out: thus, 'Greece was the most polished nation of antiquity'”--_Bullions and Lennie cor_ ”Burke, in his speech on the Carnatic war,allusion to the well known fable of _Cadued and disgusted with this cant: 'The Carnatic is a country that will soon recover, and become instantly as prosperous as ever' They think they are talking to innocents, who believe that by the sowing of dragon's teeth, rown and ready made'”--_Hiley and Hart cor_
”For sects he car'd not: 'They are not of us, Nor need we, brethren, their concerns discuss'”--_Crabbe cor_
”Habit, with hiht; I've done it from my youth'
Questions he answer'd in as brief a way: 'It ; it was of yesterday'”--_Id_
MIXED EXAMPLES CORRECTED
”This would see; namely, that he will _fulfill_ his pro not doubted”--_Bullions cor_ ”The coe requires, that a distinction be made between _morals_ and _manners_: the former depend upon internal dispositions; the latter, _upon_ outward and visible accoh I detest war in each particular fibre of ht with bloody hand Peaceht: the ht, do, it may be, far less”--_T Parker cor_ ”The article _the_, like _a_, must have a substantive joined with it; whereas _that_, like _one_,of books, I may select one, and say, 'Give me that;' but not, 'Give me _the_;'--[so I may say,] 'Give me _one_;' but not, 'Give me _a_'”--_Bullions cor_ ”The Present tense has three distinct forms: the _simple_; as, I read: the _eressive_; as, I a” Or thus: ”The Present tense has three distinct forms;--the _simple_; as, 'I read;'--the _eressive_; as, 'I alish are usually reckoned six: the _Present_, the _Imperfect_, the _Perfect_, the _Pluperfect_, the _First-future_, and the _Second-future_”--_Id_ ”There are three participles; the Present or Active, the Perfect or Passive, and the Co loved_” Or, better: ”There are three participles from each verb; namely, the _I, turned, having turned_”--_Murray et al cor_ ”The participles are three; the Present, the Perfect, and the Co loved_” Better: ”The participles of each verb are three; the _I, turned, having turned_”--_Hart cor_ ”_Will_ is conjugated regularly, when it is a principal verb: as, present, I _will_; past, I _willed_; &c”--_Frazee cor_ ”And both sounds of _x_ are coz_, and the other, that of _ks_”--_Id_ ”The man is happy; he is benevolent; he is useful”--_L Mur_, p 28: _Cooper cor_ ”The pronoun stands _in stead_ of the noun: as, 'The man is happy; _he_ is benevolent; _he_ is useful'”--_L
Murray cor_ ”A pronoun is a word used _in stead_ of a noun, to _prevent_ too frequent _a_ repetition of it: as, 'The man is happy; _he_ is benevolent; _he_ is useful'”--_Id_ ”A pronoun is a word used in the room of a noun, or as a substitute for one or more words: as, 'The man is happy; _he_ is benevolent; _he_ is useful'”--_Cooper cor_ ”A cos or things; as, _Animal, tree, insect, fish, fowl_”--_Id_ ”Nouns have three persons; the _first_, the _second_, and the _third_”--_Id_
”_So_ saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she _eat_: Earth felt the wound; and _Nature_ frons of _woe_, That all was lost”--MILTON, P L, Book ix, l 780
SECTION IV--THE PERIOD
CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE I--OF DISTINCT SENTENCES
”The third person is the position of _a word by which an object is merely_ spoken of; as, 'Paul and Silas were imprisoned'--'The earth thirsts'--'The sun shi+nes'”--_Frazee cor_
”Two, and three, and four, make nine If he were here, he would assist his father and ether, and are happy, because they enjoy each other's society They went to Roxbury, and tarried all night, and came back the next day”--_Goldsbury cor_
”We often resolve, but seldoh he is often advised, yet he does not reform Reproof either softens or hardens its object He is as old as his classmates, but not so learned