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CHAPTER IX.--CONJUNCTIONS.

CORRECTIONS IN THE USE OF CONJUNCTIONS.

"A Verb is so called from the Latin verbum, a word."--Bucke cor. "References are often marked by letters or figures."--Adam and Gould cor. (1.) "A Conjunction is a word which joins words or sentences together."--Lennie, Bullions and Brace, cor. (2.) "A Conjunction is used to connect words or sentences together."--R. C. Smith cor. (3.) "A Conjunction is used to connect words or sentences."--Maunder cor. (4.) "Conjunctions are words used to join words or sentences."--Wilcox cor. (5.) "A Conjunction is a word used to connect words or sentences."--M'Culloch, Hart, and Day, cor. (6.) "A Conjunction joins words or sentences together."--Macintosh and Hiley cor. (7.) "The Conjunction joins words or sentences together."--L. Murray cor. (8.) "Conjunctions connect words or sentences to each other."--Wright cor. (9.) "Conjunctions connect words or sentences."--Wells and Wilcox cor. (10.) "The conjunction is a part of speech, used to connect words or sentences."--Weld cor. (11.) "A conjunction is a word used to connect words or sentences together."--Fowler cor. (12.) "Connectives are particles that unite words or sentences in construction."--Webster cor. "English Grammar is miserably taught in our district schools; the teachers know little or nothing about it."--J. O. Taylor cor. "Lest, instead of preventing diseases, you draw them on."--Locke cor. "The definite article the is frequently applied to adverbs in the comparative or the superlative degree."--Murray et al. cor. "When nouns naturally neuter are assumed to be masculine or feminine."--Murray cor. "This form of the perfect tense represents an action as completely past, though often as done at no great distance of time, or at a time not specified."--Id. "The Copulative Conjunction serves to connect words or clauses, so as to continue a sentence, by expressing an addition, a supposition, a cause, or a consequence."--Id. "The Disjunctive Conjunction serves, not only to continue a sentence by connecting its parts, but also to express opposition of meaning, either real or nominal."--Id. "If we open the volumes of our divines, philosophers, historians, or artists, we shall find that they abound with all the terms necessary to communicate the observations and discoveries of their authors."--Id. "When a disjunctive conjunction occurs between a singular noun or pronoun and a plural one, the verb is made to agree with the plural noun or pronoun."--Murray et al. cor. "Pronouns must always agree with their antecedents, or the nouns for which they stand, in gender and number."--Murray cor. "Neuter verbs do not express action, and consequently do not govern nouns or pronouns."--Id. "And the auxiliary of the past imperfect as well as of the present tense."--Id. "If this rule should not appear to apply to every example that has been produced, or to others which might be cited."--Id. "An emphatical pause is made, after something of peculiar moment has been said, on which we desire to fix the hearer's attention."--Murray and Hart cor. "An imperfect[531] phrase contains no assertion, and does not amount to a proposition, or sentence."--Murray cor. "The word was in the mouth of every one, yet its meaning may still be a secret."--Id. "This word was in the mouth of every one, and yet, as to its precise and definite idea, this may still be a secret,"--Harris cor. "It cannot be otherwise, because the French prosody differs from that of every other European language."--Smollet cor. "So gradually that it may be engrafted on a subtonic."--Rush cor. "Where the Chelsea and Malden bridges now are." Or better: "Where the Chelsea or the Malden bridge now is."--Judge Parker cor. "Adverbs are words added to verbs, to participles, to adjectives, or to other adverbs."--R. C. Smith cor. "I could not have told you who the hermit was, or on what mountain he lived."--Bucke cor. "AM and BE (for they are the same verb) naturally, or in themselves, signify being."--Brightland cor. "Words are signs, either oral or written, by which we express our thoughts, or ideas."--Mrs. Bethune cor. "His fears will detect him, that he shall not escape."--Comly cor. "Whose is equally applicable to persons and to things"--Webster cor. "One negative destroys an other, so that two are equivalent to an affirmative."--Bullions cor. "No sooner does he peep into the world,   Than he has done his do."--Hudibras cor.

CHAPTER X.--PREPOSITIONS.

CORRECTIONS IN THE USE OF PREPOSITIONS.

"Nouns are often formed from participles."--L. Murray corrected. "What tenses are formed from the perfect participle?"--Ingersoll cor. "Which tense is formed from the present, or root of the verb?"--Id. "When a noun or a pronoun is placed before a participle, independently of the est of the sentence."--Churchill's Gram., p. 348. "If the addition consists of two or more words."--''Mur. et al. cor. "The infinitive mood is often made absolute, or used independently of the rest of the sentence."--Lowth's Gram., 80; Churchill's, 143; Bucke's, 96; Merchant's'', 92. "For the great satisfaction of the reader, we shall present a variety of false constructions."--Murray cor. "For your satisfaction, I shall present you a variety of false constructions."--Ingersoll cor. "I shall here present [to] you a scale of derivation."--Bucke cor. "These two manners of representation in respect to number."--Lowth and Churchill cor. "There are certain adjectives which