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 commanded it, I must obey."--R. C. Smith cor. "I now present him a form of the diatonic scale."--Barber cor. "One after an other, their favourite rivers have been reluctantly abandoned." Or: "One after an other of their favourite rivers have they reluctantly abandoned."--Hodgson cor. "Particular and peculiar are words of different import."--Dr. Blair cor. "Some adverbs admit of comparison; as, soon, sooner, soonest."--Bucke cor. "Having exposed himself too freely in different climates, he entirely lost his health."--L. Mur. cor. "The verb must agree with its nominative in number and person."--Buchanan cor. "Write twenty short sentences containing adjectives."--Abbott cor. "This general tendency of the language seems to have given occasion to a very great corruption."-- Churchill's Gram., p. 113. "The second requisite of a perfect sentence is unity."--L. Murray cor. "It is scarcely necessary to apologize for omitting their names."--Id. "The letters of the English alphabet are twenty-six."--Id. et al. cor. "He who employs antiquated or novel phraseology, must do it with design; he cannot err from inadvertence, as he may with respect to provincial or vulgar expressions."--Jamieson cor. "The vocative case, in some grammars, is wholly omitted; why, if we must have cases, I could never understand."--Bucke cor. "Active verbs are conjugated with the auxiliary verb have; passive verbs, with the auxiliary am or be."--Id. "What then may AND be called? A conjunction."--Smith cor. "Have they ascertained who gave the information?"--Bullions cor.

UNDER CRITICAL NOTE X.--OF IMPROPER OMISSIONS.

"All words signifying concrete qualities of things, are called adnouns, or adjectives."--Rev. D. Blair cor. "The macron = signifies a long or accented syllable, and the breve ~ indicates a short or unaccented syllable."--Id. "Whose duty it is, to help young ministers."--Friends cor. "The passage is closely connected with what precedes and what follows."--''Phil. Mu. cor. "The work is not completed, but it soon will be."--R. C. Smith cor. "Of whom hast thou been afraid, or whom hast thou feared?"--Bible cor. "There is a God who made, and who governs, the world."--Bp. Butler cor. "It was this that made them so haughty."--Goldsmith cor. "How far the whole charge affected him, it is not easy to determine."--Id. "They saw these wonders of nature, and worshiped the God that made them."--Bucke cor. "The errors frequent in the use of hyperboles, arise either from overstraining them, or from introducing them on unsuitable occasions."--L. Mur. cor. "The preposition in is set before the names of countries, cities, and large towns; as, 'He lives in France, in London, or in Birmingham.' But, before the names of villages, single houses, or foreign cities, at is used; as, 'He lives at Hackney.'"--Id. et al. cor. "And, in such recollection, the thing is not figured as in our view, nor is any image formed."--Kames cor. "Intrinsic beauty and relative beauty must be handled separately."--Id. "He should be on his guard not to do them injustice by disguising them or placing them in a false light."--Dr. Blair cor. "In perusing that work, we are frequently interrupted by the author's unnatural thoughts."--L. Murray cor. "To this point have tended all the rules which I have just given."--Dr. Blair cor. "To this point have tended all the rules which have just been given."--L. Murray cor. "Language, as written, or as oral, is addressed to the eye, or to the ear."--Journal cor. "He will learn, Sir, that to accuse and to prove are very different."--Walpole cor. "They crowded around the door so as to prevent others from going out."--Abbott cor. "A word denoting one person or thing, is of the singular number; a word denoting more than one person or thing: is of the plural number."--J. Flint cor.'' "Nouns, according to the sense or relation in which they are used, are in the nominative, the possessive, or the objective case: thus, Nom. man. Poss. man's, Obj. man."--Rev. D. Blair cor. "Nouns or pronouns in the possessive case are placed before the nouns which govern them, and to which they belong."--Sanborn cor. "A teacher is explaining the difference between a noun and a verb."--Abbott cor. "And therefore the two ends, or extremities, must directly answer to the north and the south pole."--Harris cor. "WALKS or WALKETH, RIDES or RIDETH, and STANDS or STANDETH, are of the third person singular."--Kirkham cor. "I grew immediately roguish and pleasant, to a high degree, in the same strain."--Swift cor. "An Anapest has the first two syllables unaccented, and the last one accented."--Rev. D. Blair cor.; also Kirkham et al.; also ''L. Mur. et al''. "But hearing and vision differ not more than words spoken and words written." Or: "But hearing and vision do not differ more than spoken words and written."--Wilson cor. "They are considered by some authors to be prepositions."--Cooper cor. "When those powers have been deluded and have gone astray."--''Phil Mu. cor.'' "They will understand this, and will like it."--Abbott cor. "They had been expelled from their native country Romagna."--Hunt cor. "Future time is expressed in two different ways."--Adam and Gould cor. "Such as the borrowing of some noted event from history."--Kames cor. "Every finite verb must agree with its nominative in number and person."--Bucke cor. "We are struck, we know not how, with the symmetry of any handsome thing we see."--L. Murray cor. "Under this head, I shall consider every thing that is necessary to a good delivery."--Sheridan cor. "A good ear is the gift of nature; it may be much improved, but it cannot be acquired by art."--L. Murray cor. "Truth is a common noun, of the third person, singular number, neuter gender, and nominative case."--Bullions cor. by Brown's Form. "Possess is a regular active-transitive verb, found in the indicative mood, present tense, third person, and plural number."--Id. "Fear is a common noun, of the third person, singular number, neuter gender, and nominative case: and is the subject of is: according to the Rule which says, 'A noun or a pronoun which is the subject of a finite verb, must be in the nominative case. Because the meaning is--fear is.'"--Id. "Is is an irregular neuter verb, from be, was, being, been; found in the indicative mood, present tense, third person, and singular number: and agrees with its nominative fear; according to the Rule which says, 'Every finite verb must