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 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 principal 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 passing 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 God."—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 assorted."—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 pronoun 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 analogy (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 God!"—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 pass!"—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.