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.