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THE KEY.--PART III.--SYNTAX.

CHAPTER I.--SENTENCES.

The first chapter of Syntax, being appropriated to general views of this part of grammar, to an exhibition of its leading doctrines, and to the several forms of sentential analysis, with an application of its principal rules in parsing, contains no false grammar for correction; and has, of course, nothing to correspond to it, in this Key, except the title, which is here inserted for form's sake.

CHAPTER II.--ARTICLES.

CORRECTIONS UNDER THE NOTES TO RULE I.

UNDER NOTE I.--AN OR A.

"I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel."--Bible cor. "There is a harshness in the following sentences."--Murray's Gram., 8vo, p. 152. "Indeed, such a one is not to be looked for."--Dr. Blair cor. "If each of you will be disposed to approve himself a useful citizen."--Id. "Land with them had acquired almost a European value."--Webster cor. "He endeavoured to find out a wholesome remedy."--Neef cor. "At no time have we attended a yearly meeting more to our own satisfaction."--The Friend cor. "Addison was not a humorist in character."--Kames cor. "Ah me! what a one was he!"--Lily cor. "He was such a one as I never saw before"--Id. "No man can be a good preacher, who is not a useful one."--Dr. Blair cor. "A usage which is too frequent with Mr. Addison."--Id. "Nobody joins the voice of a sheep with the shape of a horse."--Locke cor. "A universality seems to be aimed at by the omission of the article."--Priestley cor. "Architecture is a useful as well as a fine art."--Kames cor. "Because the same individual conjunctions do not preserve a uniform signification."--Nutting cor. "Such a work required the patience and assiduity of a hermit."--Johnson cor. "Resentment is a union of sorrow with malignity."--Id. "His bravery, we know, was a high courage of blasphemy."--Pope cor. "HYSSOP; an herb of bitter taste."--Pike cor. "On each enervate string they taught the note   To pant, or tremble through a eunuch's throat."--Pope cor.

UNDER NOTE II.--AN OR A WITH PLURALS.

"At a session of the court, in March, it was moved," &c.--Hutchinson cor. "I shall relate my conversations, of which I kept memoranda."--''D. D'Ab. cor. "I took an other dictionary, and with a pair of scissors cut out, for instance, the word ABACUS."--A. B. Johnson cor. "A person very meet seemed he for the purpose, and about forty-five years old."--Gardiner cor. "And it came to pass, about eight days after these sayings."--Bible cor. "There were slain of them about three thousand men."--1 Macc. cor. "Until I had gained the top of these white mountains, which seemed other Alps of snow."--Addison cor. "To make them satisfactory amends for all the losses they had sustained."--Goldsmith cor. "As a first-fruit of many that shall be gathered."--Barclay cor. "It makes indeed a little amend, (or some amends,) by inciting us to oblige people."--Sheffield cor. "A large and lightsome back stairway (or flight of backstairs) leads up to an entry above."--Id. "Peace of mind is an abundant recompense for any sacrifices of interest."--Murray et al. cor. "With such a spirit, and such sentiments, were hostilities carried on."--Robertson cor. "In the midst of a thick wood, he had long lived a voluntary recluse."--G. B''. "The flats look almost like a young forest."--Chronicle cor. "As we went on, the country for a little way improved, but scantily."--Freeman cor. "Whereby the Jews were permitted to return into their own country, after a captivity of seventy years at Babylon."--Rollin cor. "He did not go a great way into the country."--Gilbert cor. "A large amend by fortune's hand is made,   And the lost Punic blood is well repay'd."--Rowe cor.

UNDER NOTE III.--NOUNS CONNECTED.

"As where a landscape is conjoined with the music of birds, and the odour of flowers."--Kames cor. "The last order resembles the second in the mildness of its accent, and the softness of its pause."--Id. "Before the use of the loadstone, or the knowledge of the compass."--Dryden cor. "The perfect participle and the imperfect tense ought not to be confounded."--Murray cor. "In proportion as the taste of a poet or an orator becomes more refined."--Blair cor. "A situation can never be more intricate, so long as there is an angel, a devil, or a musician, to lend a helping hand."--Kames cor. "Avoid rude sports: an eye is soon lost, or a bone broken."--Inst., p. 262. "Not a word was uttered, nor a sign given."--Ib. "I despise not the doer, but the deed."--Ib. "For the sake of an easier pronunciation and a more agreeable sound."--Lowth cor. "The levity as well as the loquacity of the Greeks made them incapable of keeping up the true standard of history."--Bolingbroke cor.

UNDER NOTE IV.--ADJECTIVES CONNECTED.

"It is proper that the vowels be a long and a short one."--Murray cor. "Whether the person mentioned was seen by the speaker a long or a short time before."--''Id. et al''. "There are