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 distinct forms;--the simple; as, 'I read;'--the emphatic; as, 'I do read;'--and the progressive; as, 'I am reading.'"--Id. "The tenses in English 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 Compound Perfect: as, loving, loved, having loved." Or, better: "There are three participles from each verb; namely, the Imperfect, the Perfect, and the Preperfect; as, turning, turned, having turned."--Murray et al. cor. "The participles are three; the Present, the Perfect, and the Compound Perfect: as, loving, loved, having loved." Better: "The participles of each verb are three; the Imperfect, the Perfect, and the Preperfect: as, turning, 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 compound: one is that of gz, 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 common noun is the name of a sort, kind, or class, of beings 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 from her seat,     Sighing through all her works, gave signs 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 shines.'"--Frazee cor.

"Two, and three, and four, make nine. If he were here, he would assist his father and mother; for he is a dutiful son. They live together, 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 seldom perform. She is wiser than her sister. Though 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. Neither prosperity, nor adversity, has improved him. Let him that standeth, take heed lest he fall. He can acquire no virtue, unless he make some sacrifices."--Id.

"Down from his neck, with blazing gems array'd,   Thy image, lovely Anna! hung portray'd;    Th' unconscious figure, smiling all serene,    Suspended in a golden chain was seen."--Falconer.

UNDER RULE II.--OF ALLIED SENTENCES.

"This life is a mere prelude to an other which has no limits. It is a little portion of duration. As death leaves us, so the day of judgement will find us."--Merchant cor.

"He went from Boston to New York.--He went (I say) from Boston; he went to New York. In walking across the floor, he stumbled over a chair."--Goldsbury corrected.

"I saw him on the spot, going along the road, looking towards the house. During the heat of the day, he sat on the ground, under the shade of a tree."--Goldsbury corrected.

"'George came home; I saw him yesterday.' Here the word him can extend only to the individual George."--Barrett corrected.

"Commas are often used now, where parentheses were [adopted] formerly. I cannot, however, esteem this an improvement."--Bucke's Classical Grammar, p. 20.

"Thou, like a sleeping, faithless sentinel,   Didst let them pass unnotic'd, unimprov'd.    And know, for that thou slumberst on the guard,    Thou shalt be made to answer at the bar    For every fugitive."--COTTON: Hallock and Enfield cor.

UNDER RULE III.--OF ABBREVIATIONS.

"The term pronoun (Lat. pronomen) strictly means a word used for, or in stead of, a noun."--Bullions corrected.

"The period is also used after abbreviations; as, A. D., P. S., G. W. Johnson."--N. Butler cor.

"On this principle of classification, the later Greek grammarians divided words into eight classes, or parts of speech: viz., the Article, Noun, Pronoun, Verb, Participle, Adverb, Preposition, and Conjunction."--Bullions cor.

"'Metre [Melody] is not confined to verse: there is a tune in all good prose; and Shakspeare's was a sweet one.'--Epea Pter., ii, 61. [First American Ed., ii, 50.] Mr. H. Tooke's