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 there are only two&mdash;the subject or thing spoken of, and the state, or action attributed to it."&mdash;Bullions, E. Gram.  "Why labours reason? instinct were as well; Instinct far better; what can choose, can err."       &mdash;Brit. Poets, Vol. viii.

UNDER RULE III.&mdash;INDEPENDENT QUOTATIONS.
"The sentence may run thus; 'He is related to the same person, and is governed by him.'"&mdash;Hart's Gram.

[.&mdash;Not proper, because the semicolon is here inserted, in an unusual manner, before a quotation not closely dependent. But, according to Rule 3d for the Colon, "A quotation introduced without a close dependence on a verb or a conjunction, is generally preceded by the colon." Therefore, the colon should be here preferred.]

"Always remember this ancient proverb, 'Know thyself.'"&mdash;Hallock's Gram. "Consider this sentence. The boy runs swiftly."&mdash;Frazee's Gram., Stereotype Ed. 1st Ed. "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'"&mdash;Bullions, E. Gram. see Lennie's Gram. "Burke, in his speech on the Carnatic war, makes the following allusion to the well known fable of Cadmus's sowing dragon's teeth;&mdash;'Every day you are fatigued 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, men may come up ready grown and ready made.'"&mdash;Hiley's Gram., see also Hart's. "For sects he car'd not, 'they are not of us,   Nor need we, brethren, their concerns discuss.'"&mdash;Crabbe. "Habit with him was all the test of truth,   'It must be right: I've done it from my youth.'    Questions he answered in as brief a way,    'It must be wrong&mdash;it was of yesterday.'"&mdash;Id., Borough.

MIXED EXAMPLES OF ERROR.

"This would seem to say, 'I doubt nothing save one thing, namely, that he will fulfil his promise;' whereas, that is the very thing not doubted."&mdash;Bullions, E. Gram.. "The common use of language requires that a distinction be made between morals and manners, the former depend upon internal dispositions, the latter on outward and visible accomplishments."&mdash;Beattie's Moral Science. "Though I detest war in each particular fibre of my heart yet I honor the Heroes among our fathers who fought with bloody hand: Peacemakers in a savage way they were faithful to their light; the most inspired can be no more, and we, with greater light, do, it may be, far less."&mdash;Parker's Idea of a Church. "The Article the, like a, must have a substantive joined with it, whereas that, like one, may have it understood; thus, speaking of books, I may select one, and say, 'give me that;' but not, 'give me the;' 'give me one;' but not 'give me a.'"&mdash;Bullions's E. Gram.. "The Present tense has three distinct forms&mdash;the simple; as, I read; the emphatic; as, I do read; and the progressive; as, I am reading'."&mdash;Ib.. "The tenses in English are usually reckoned six. The Present, the Imperfect, the Perfect, the Pluperfect, the Future, and the Future Perfect."&mdash;Ib.. "There are three participles, the Present or Active, the Perfect or Passive, and the Compound Perfect; as, loving, loved, having loved."&mdash;L. Murray's Gram., 2d Edition; Alger's; Fisk's; Bacon's. "The Participles are three, the Present, the Perfect, and the Compound Perfect; as, loving, loved, having loved."&mdash;Hart's Gram.. "Will is conjugated regularly, when it is a principal verb, as, present, I will, past, I willed, &c."&mdash;Frazee's Gram., Ster. Ed.; Old Ed. "And both sounds of x are compound, one is that of gz, and the other, that of ks"&mdash;Ib., Ster. Ed. "The man is happy: he is benevolent: he is useful."&mdash;Cooper's Murray; ''Pl. and Pract. Gr. "The Pronoun stands instead of the noun; as, The man is happy; he is benevolent; he is useful.'"&mdash;L. Murray's Gram.'', 2d Ed. "A pronoun is a word used instead of a noun, to avoid the too frequent repetition of the same word: as, 'The man is happy,' &lsquo;he is benevolent,&rsquo; &lsquo;he is useful.&rsquo;"&mdash;Ib.. "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."&mdash;''Cooper's Pl. and Pr. Gram., his Abridg. of Mur. "A common noun is the name of a sort, kind, or class of beings, or things, as: animal; tree; insect; fish; fowl"&mdash;Cooper's Pl. and Pr. Gram. "Nouns have three persons: the first; the second; and the third."&mdash;Ib.'' "(Eve) so saying, her rash hand in evil hour   Forth reaching to the fruit; she pluck'd, she ate    Earth felt the wound: and nature from her seat,    Sighing through all her works, gave signs of wo,    That all was lost."&mdash;''Cooper's Pl. and Pr. Gram.''

SECTION IV.&mdash;THE PERIOD.
The Period, or Full Stop, is used to mark an entire and independent sentence, whether simple or compound.