The Grammar of English Grammars Part 225

"A _Verb_ is so called from the Latin _verb.u.m_, 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."--_Wilc.o.x 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 Wilc.o.x 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 _a.s.sumed 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 p.r.o.noun and a plural one, the verb is made to agree with the plural noun _or_ p.r.o.noun."--_Murray et al. cor._ "p.r.o.nouns 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 p.r.o.nouns."--_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 a.s.sertion, _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_ p.r.o.noun is placed before a participle, independently _of_ the rest 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 seem to be derived _from verbs, without_ any variation."--_Lowth cor._ "Or disqualify us for receiving instruction or reproof _from_ others."--_Murray cor._ "For being more studious than any other pupil _in_ the school."-- _Id._ "Misunderstanding the directions, we lost our way."--_Id._ "These people reduced the greater part of the island _under_ their own power."-- _Id._ "The princ.i.p.al accent distinguishes one syllable _of_ a word from the rest."--_Id._ "Just numbers are in unison _with_ the human mind."--_Id._ "We must accept of sound _in stead_ of sense."--_Id._ "Also, _in stead of consultation_, he uses _consult_."--_Priestley cor._ "This ablative seems to be governed _by_ a preposition understood."--_W. Walker cor._ "_Lest_ my father _hear of it_, by some means or other."--_Id._ "And, besides, my wife would hear _of it_ by some means."--_Id._ "For insisting _on_ a requisition so odious to them."--_Robertson cor._ "Based _on_ the great self-evident truths of liberty and equality."--_Manual cor._ "Very little knowledge of their nature is acquired _from_ the spelling-book."--_Murray cor._ "They do not cut it off: except _from_ a few words; as, _due, duly_, &c."--_Id._ "Whether pa.s.sing _at_ such time, or then finished."--_Lowth cor._ "It hath disgusted hundreds _with_ that confession."--_Barclay cor._ "But they have egregiously fallen _into_ that inconveniency."--_Id._ "For is not this, to set nature _at_ work?"--_Id._ "And, surely, that which should set all its springs _at_ work, is G.o.d."--_Atterbury cor._ "He could not end his treatise without a panegyrie _on_ modern learning."--_Temple cor._ "These are entirely independent _of_ the modulation of the voice."--_J. Walker cor._ "It is dear _at_ a penny. It is cheap _at_ twenty pounds."--_W.

Walker cor._ "It will be despatched, _on_ most occasions, without resting."--_Locke cor._ "_Oh_ the pain, the bliss of dying!"--_Pope_. "When the objects or the facts are presented _to him_."--_R. C. Smith cor._ "I will now present you a synopsis."--_Id._ "The disjunctive conjunction connects _words or_ sentences, _and suggests an_ opposition of meaning, _more or less direct_."--_Id._ "I shall now present _to_ you a few lines."--_Bucke cor._ "Common names, _or_ substantives, are those which stand for things _a.s.sorted_."--_Id._ "Adjectives, in the English language, _are not varied by_ genders, numbers, or cases; _their only inflection is for_ the degrees of comparison."--_Id._ "Participles are [little more than]

adjectives formed _from_ verbs."--_Id._ "I do love to walk out _on_ a fine _summer_ evening."--_Id._ "_Ellipsis_, when applied to grammar, is the elegant omission of one or more words _of_ a sentence."--_Merchant cor._ "The _preposition to_ is generally _required_ before verbs in the infinitive mood, but _after_ the following verbs it is properly omitted; namely, _bid, dare, feel, need, let, make, hear, see_: as, 'He _bid_ me _do_ it;' not, 'He _bid_ me _to_ do it.'"--_Id._ "The infinitive sometimes follows _than, for the latter term of_ a comparison; as, ['Murray should have known _better than to write_, and Merchant, _better than to copy_, the text here corrected, or the ambiguous example they appended to it.']"--_Id._ "Or, by prefixing the _adverb more_ or _less, for_ the comparative, and _most_ or _least, for_ the superlative."--_Id._ "A p.r.o.noun is a word used _in stead_ of a noun."--_Id._ "From monosyllables, the comparative is regularly formed by adding _r_ or _er_."--_Perley cor._ "He has particularly named these, in distinction _from_ others."--_Harris cor._ "To revive the decaying taste _for ancient_ literature."--_Id._ "He found the greatest difficulty _in_ writing."--_Hume cor._

"And the tear, that is wiped with a little address, May be followed perhaps _by_ a smile."--_Cowper_, i, 216.

CHAPTER XI.--INTERJECTIONS.

CORRECTIONS IN THE USE OF INTERJECTIONS.

"Of chance or change, _O_ let not man complain."--_Beattie's Minstrel_, B.

ii, l. 1. "O thou persecutor! _O_ ye hypocrites!"--_Russell's Gram._, p.

92. "_O_ thou my voice inspire, Who _touch'd_ Isaiah's hallow'd lips with fire!"--_Pope's Messiah_. "_O happy we_! surrounded by so many blessings!"--_Merchant cor._ "_O thou who_ art so unmindful of thy duty!"--_Id._ "If I am wrong, _O_ teach my heart To find that better way."--_Murray's Reader_, p. 248. "Heus! evocate huc Davum."--_Ter_. "Ho!

call Davus out hither."--_W. Walker cor._ "It was represented by an a.n.a.logy (_O_ how inadequate!) which was borrowed from the _ceremonies_ of paganism."--_Murray cor._ "_O_ that Ishmael might live before thee!"--_Friends' Bible_, and _Scott's_. "And he said unto him, _O_ let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak."--_Alger's Bible_, and _Scott's_. "And he said, _O_ let not the Lord be angry."--_Alger; Gen._, xviii. 32. "_O_ my Lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word."--_Scott's Bible_. "_O_ Virtue! how amiable thou art!"--_Murray's Gram._, p. 128. "_Alas_! I fear for life."--See _Ib._ "_Ah_ me! they little know How dearly I abide that boast so vain!"--See _Bucke's Gram._, p. 87. "_O_ that I had digged myself a cave!"--_Fletcher cor._ "_Oh_, my good lord! thy comfort comes too late."--_Shak. cor._ "The vocative takes no article: it is distinguished thus: _O Pedro_! O Peter! _O Dios_! O G.o.d!"--_Bucke cor._ "_Oho_! But, the relative is always the same."--_Cobbett cor._ "_All-hail_, ye happy men!"--_Jaudon cor._ "_O_ that I had wings like a dove!'--_Scott's Bible_.

"_O glorious_ hope! O _bless'd_ abode!"--_O. B. Peirce's Gram._, p. 304.

"_Welcome_ friends! how joyous is your presence!"--_T. Smith cor._ "_O_ blissful days!--_but, ah_! how soon ye pa.s.s!"--_Parker and Fox cor._

"_O_ golden days! _O_ bright unvalued hours!-- What bliss, did ye but know that bliss, were yours!"--_Barbauld cor._

"_Ah_ me! what perils do environ The man that meddles with cold iron!"--_Hudibras cor._

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 a.n.a.lysis, with an application of its princ.i.p.al rules in parsing, contains no false grammar for correction; and has, of course, nothing to correspond to it, in this Key, except the t.i.tle, 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._ "n.o.body 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 a.s.siduity 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 pa.s.s, 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 compa.s.s."--_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 p.r.o.nunciation 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 three genders; _the_ masculine, _the_ feminine, and _the_ neuter."--_Adam cor._ "The numbers are two; _the_ singular and _the_ plural."--_Id. et al_. "The persons are three; _the_ first, _the_ second, and _the_ third."--_Iidem_. "Nouns and p.r.o.nouns have three cases; the nominative, _the_ possessive, and _the_ objective."-- _Comly and Ing. cor._ "Verbs have five moods; namely, the infinitive, _the_ indicative, _the_ potential, _the_ subjunctive, and _the_ imperative."-- _Bullions et al. cor._ "How many numbers have p.r.o.nouns? Two, the singular and _the_ plural."--_Bradley cor._ "To distinguish between an interrogative and _an_ exclamatory sentence."--_Murray et al. cor._ "The first and _the_ last of which are _compound_ members."--_Lowth cor._ "In the last lecture, I treated of the concise and _the_ diffuse, the nervous and _the_ feeble manner."--_Blair cor._ "The pa.s.sive and _the_ neuter verbs I shall reserve for some future conversation."--_Ingersoll cor._ "There are two voices; the active and _the_ pa.s.sive."--_Adam et al. cor._ "WHOSE is rather the poetical than _the_ regular genitive of WHICH."--_Johnson cor._ "To feel the force of a compound or _a_ derivative word."--_Town cor._ "To preserve the distinctive uses of the copulative and _the_ disjunctive conjunctions."--_Murray et al. cor._ "E has a long and _a_ short sound in most languages."--_Bicknell cor._ "When the figurative and _the_ literal sense are mixed and jumbled together."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "The Hebrew, with which the Canaanitish and _the_ Phoenician stand in connexion."--_Conant_ and _Fowler cor._ "The languages of Scandinavia proper, the Norwegian and _the_ Swedish."--_Fowler cor._

UNDER NOTE V.--ADJECTIVES CONNECTED.

"The path of truth is a plain and safe path."--_Murray cor._ "Directions for acquiring a just and happy elocution."--_Kirkham cor._ "Its leading object is, to adopt a correct and easy method."--_Id._ "How can it choose but wither in a long and sharp winter?"--_Cowley cor._ "Into a dark and distant unknown."--_Dr. Chalmers cor._ "When the bold and strong enslaved his fellow man."--_Chazotte cor._ "We now proceed to consider the things most essential to an accurate and perfect sentence."--_Murray cor._ "And hence arises a second and very considerable source of the improvement of taste."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "Novelty produces in the mind a vivid and agreeable emotion."--_Id._ "The deepest and bitterest feeling still is _that of_ the separation."--_Dr. M'Rie cor._ "A great and good man looks beyond time."--See _Brown's Inst._, p. 263. "They made but a weak and ineffectual resistance."--_Ib._ "The light and worthless kernels will float."--_Ib._ "I rejoice that there is an other and better world."--_Ib._ "For he is determined to revise his work, and present to the _public an other and better_ edition."--_Kirkham cor._ "He hoped that this t.i.tle would secure _to_ him an ample and independent authority."--_L. Murray cor. et al_. "There is, however, _an other and more limited sense_."--_J. Q. Adams cor._

UNDER NOTE VI.--ARTICLES OR PLURALS.

"This distinction forms what are called the diffuse _style_ and the concise."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "Two different modes of speaking, distinguished at first by the denominations of _the Attic manner_ and _the Asiatic_."--_Adams cor._ "But the great design of uniting the Spanish and French monarchies under the former, was laid."--_Bolingbroke cor._ "In the solemn and poetic styles, it [_do_ or _did_] is often rejected."--_Allen cor._ "They cannot be, at the same time, in _both_ the objective _case_ and the nominative." Or: "They cannot be, at the same time, in _both_ the objective and the nominative _case_." Or: "They cannot be, at the same time, in the nominative _case_, and _also in the_ objective." Or: "They cannot be, at the same time, in the nominative and objective cases."--_Murray's Gram._, 8vo, p. 148. Or, better: "They cannot be, at the same time, in _both_ cases, the nominative and _the_ objective."--_Murray et al. cor._ "They are named the positive, comparative, and superlative degrees."--_Smart cor._ "Certain adverbs are capable of taking an inflection; namely, that of the comparative and superlative degrees."--_Fowler cor._ "In the subjunctive mood, the present and imperfect tenses often carry with them a future sense."--_Murray et al.

cor._ "The imperfect, the perfect, the pluperfect, and the first-future _tense_, of this mood, are conjugated like the same tenses of the indicative."--_Kirkham bettered_. "What rules apply in parsing personal p.r.o.nouns of the second and third _persons_?"--_Id._ "Nouns are sometimes in the nominative or _the_ objective case after the neuter verb _be_, or after an active-intransitive or _a_ pa.s.sive verb." "The verb varies its _ending_ in the singular, in order to agree with its nominative, in the first, second, and third _persons_."--_Id._ "They are identical in effect with the radical and the vanishing _stress_."--_Rush cor._ "In a sonnet, the first, _the_ fourth, _the_ fifth, and _the_ eighth line, _usually_ rhyme to _one an_ other: so do the second, third, sixth, and seventh _lines_; the ninth, eleventh, and thirteenth _lines_; and the tenth, twelfth, and fourteenth _lines_."--_Churchill cor._ "The iron and golden ages are run; youth and manhood are departed."--_Wright cor._ "If, as you say, the iron and the golden _age_ are past, the youth and the manhood of the world."--_Id._ "An Exposition of the Old and New _Testaments_."--_Henry cor._ "The names and order of the books of the Old and _the_ New Testament."--_Bible cor._ "In the second and third _persons_ of that tense."--_Murray cor._ "And who still unites in himself the human and the divine _nature_."--_Gurney cor._ "Among whom arose the Italian, Spanish, French, and English languages."--_Murray cor._ "Whence arise these two _numbers_, the singular and the plural."--_Burn cor._

UNDER NOTE VII.--CORRESPONDENT TERMS.

"Neither the definitions nor _the_ examples are entirely the same _as_ his."--_Ward cor._ "Because it makes a discordance between the thought and _the_ expression."--_Kames cor._ "Between the adjective and _the_ following substantive."--_Id._ "Thus Athens became both the repository and _the_ nursery of learning."--_Chazotte cor._ "But the French pilfered from both the Greek and _the_ Latin."--_Id._ "He shows that Christ is both the power and _the_ wisdom of G.o.d."--_The Friend cor._ "That he might be Lord both of the dead and _of the_ living."--_Bible cor._ "This is neither the obvious nor _the_ grammatical meaning of his words."--_Blair cor._ "Sometimes both the accusative and _the_ infinitive are understood."--_Adam and Gould cor._ "In some cases, we can use either the nominative or _the_ accusative, promiscuously."--_Iidem_. "Both the former and _the_ latter substantive are sometimes to be understood."--_Iidem_. "Many _of_ which have escaped both the commentator and _the_ poet himself."--_Pope cor._ "The verbs MUST and OUGHT, have both a present and _a_ past signification."--_L. Murray cor._ "How shall we distinguish between the friends and _the_ enemies of the government?"--_Dr. Webster cor._ "Both the _ecclesiastical_ and _the_ secular powers concurred in those measures."--_Dr. Campbell cor._ "As the period has a beginning and _an_ end within itself, it implies an _inflection_."--_J. Q. Adams cor._ "Such as ought to subsist between a princ.i.p.al and _an_ accessory."--_Ld. Kames cor._

UNDER NOTE VIII.--CORRESPONDENCE PECULIAR.

"When both the upward and the downward _slide_ occur in _the sound of one_ syllable, they are called a CIRc.u.mFLEX, or WAVE."--_Kirkham cor._ "The word THAT is used both in the nominative and _in the objective case_."--_Sanborn cor._ "But _in_ all the other moods and tenses, both of the active and _of the_ pa.s.sive _voice_ [the verbs] are conjugated at large."--_Murray cor._ "Some writers on grammar, admitting the second-future _tense into_ the indicative mood, _reject it from the_ subjunctive."--_Id._ "_After_ the same conjunction, _to use_ both the indicative and the subjunctive _mood_ in the same sentence, and _under_ the same circ.u.mstances, seems to be a great impropriety."--_Id._ "The true distinction between the subjunctive and the indicative _mood_ in this tense."--_Id._ "I doubt of his capacity to teach either the French or _the_ English _language_."--_Chazotte cor._ "It is as necessary to make a distinction between the active-transitive and the active-intransitive verb, as between the active and _the_ pa.s.sive."--_Nixon cor._

UNDER NOTE IX.--A SERIES OF TERMS.

"As comprehending the terms uttered by the artist, the mechanic, and _the_ husbandman."--_Chazotte cor._ "They may be divided into four cla.s.ses; the Humanists, _the_ Philanthropists, _the Pestalozzians_, and the _Productives_."--_Smith cor._ "Verbs have six tenses; the present, the imperfect, the perfect, the pluperfect, the _first-future_, and the _second-future_."--_Murray et al. cor._ "Is it an irregular _neuter_ verb [from _be, was, being, been_; found in] _the_ indicative mood, present tense, third person, and singular number."--_Murray cor._ "SHOULD GIVE is an irregular _active-transitive_ verb [from _give, gave, given, giving_; found] in the potential mood, imperfect tense, first person, and plural number."--_Id._ "US is a personal p.r.o.noun, _of the_ first person, plural number, _masculine gender_, and objective case."--_Id._ "THEM is a personal p.r.o.noun, of the third person, plural number, _masculine gender_, and objective case."--_Id._ "It is surprising that the Jewish critics, with all their skill in dots, points, and accents, never had the ingenuity to invent a point of interrogation, _a point_ of admiration, or a parenthesis."--_Dr. Wilson cor._ "The fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth _verses_." Or: "The fifth, _the_ sixth, _the_ seventh, and the eighth verse."--_O. B. Peirce cor_. "Subst.i.tutes have three persons; the First, _the_ Second, and the Third."--_Id._ "JOHN'S is a proper noun, of the third person, singular number, masculine gender, and possessive case: and _is_ governed by 'WIFE,' _according to_ Rule" [4th, _which says_, &c.]--_Smith cor_. "Nouns, in the English language, have three cases; the nominative, the possessive, and _the_ objective."--_Bar. and Alex. cor._ "The potential mood has four tenses; viz., the present, the imperfect, the perfect, and _the_ pluperfect."--_Ingersoll cor._

"Where Science, Law, and Liberty depend, And own the patron, patriot, and friend."--_Savage cor._

UNDER NOTE X.--SPECIES AND GENUS.

"_The_ p.r.o.noun is a part of speech[532] put for _the_ noun."--_Paul's Ac.