IMPROPRIETIES FOR CORRECTION.
ERRORS RESPECTING PREPOSITIONS.
"Nouns are often formed by participles."—L. Murray's Index, Octavo
Gram., ii, 290.
[FORMULE.—Not proper, because the relation here intended, between are formed and participles, is not well signified by the preposition by. But, according to Observation 7th, on this part of speech, "The prepositions have, from their own nature, or from custom, such an adaptation to particular terms and relations, that they can seldom be used one for an other without manifest impropriety." This relation would be better expressed by from; thus, "Nouns are often formed from participles.">[
"What tenses are formed on the perfect participle?"—Ingersoll's Gram., p. 104. "Which tense is formed on the present?"—Ibid. "When a noun or pronoun is placed before a participle, independently on the rest of the sentence," &c.—Ib., p. 150; Murray, 145; and others. "If the addition consists in two or more words."—Murray's Gram., p. 176; Ingersoll's, 177. "The infinitive mood is often made absolute, or used independently on the rest of the sentence."—Mur., p. 184; Ing., 244; and others. "For the great satisfaction of the reader, we shall present him with a variety of false constructions."—Murray's Gram., p. 189. "For your satisfaction, I shall present you with a variety of false constructions."—Ingersoll's Gram., p. 258. "I shall here present you with a scale of derivation."—Bucke's Gram., p. 81. "These two manners of representation in respect of number."—Lowth's Gram., p. 15; Churchill's, 57; "There are certain adjectives, which seem to be derived without any variation from verbs."—Lowth's Gram., p. 89. "Or disqualify us for receiving instruction or reproof of others."—Murray's Key, 8vo, p. 253. "For being more studious than any other pupil of the school."—Ib., p. 226. "From misunderstanding the directions, we lost our way."—Ib., p. 201. "These people reduced the greater part of the island to their own power."—Ib., p. 261.[317] "The principal accent distinguishes one syllable in a word from the rest."—Murray's Gram., p. 236. "Just numbers are in unison to the human mind."—Ib., p. 298. "We must accept of sound instead of sense."—Ib., p. 298. "Also, instead for consultation, he uses consult."—Priestley's Gram., p. 143. "This ablative seems to be governed of a preposition understood."—Walker's Particles, p. 268. "That my father may not hear on't by some means or other."—Ib., p. 257. "And besides, my wife would hear on't by some means."—Ib., p. 81. "For insisting in a requisition is so odious to them."—Robertson's Amer., i, 206. "Based in the great self-evident truths of liberty and equality."—Scholar's Manual. "Very little knowledge of their nature is acquired by the spelling book."—Murray's Gram., p. 21. "They do not cut it off: except in a few words; as, due, duly, &c."—Ib., p. 24. "Whether passing in such time, or then finished."—Lowth's Gram., p. 31. "It hath disgusted hundreds of that confession."—Barclay's Works, iii, 269. "But they have egregiously fallen in that inconveniency."—Ib., iii, 73. "For is not this to set nature a work?"—Ib., i, 270. "And surely that which should set all its springs a-work, is God."—ATTERBURY: in Blair's Rhet., p. 298. "He could not end his treatise without a panegyric of modern learning."—TEMPLE: ib., p. 110. "These are entirely independent on the modulation of the voice."—Walker's Elocution, p. 308. "It is dear of a penny. It is cheap of twenty pounds."—Walker's Particles, p. 274. "It will be despatched, in most occasions, without resting."—Locke. "'0, the pain the bliss in dying.'"—Kirkham's Gram., p. 129. "When [he is] presented with the objects or the facts."—Smith's Productive Gram., p. 5. "I will now present you with a synopsis."—Ib., p. 25. "The conjunction disjunctive connects sentences, by expressing opposition of meaning in various degrees."—Ib., p. 38. "I shall now present you with a few lines."—Bucke's Classical Gram, p. 13. "Common names of Substantives are those, which stand for things generally."—Ib., p. 31. "Adjectives in the English language admit no variety in gender, number, or case whatever, except that of the degrees of comparison."—Ib., p. 48. "Participles are adjectives formed of verbs."—Ib., p. 63. "I do love to walk out of a fine summer's evening."—Ib., p. 97. "An Ellipsis, when applied to grammar, is the elegant omission of one or more words in a sentence."—Merchant's Gram., p. 99. "The prefix to is generally placed before verbs in the infinitive mood, but before the following verbs it is properly omitted; (viz.) bid, make, see, dare, need, hear, feel, and let; as, He bid me do it; He made me learn; &c."—Ib., Stereotype Edition, p. 91; Old Edition, 85. "The infinitive sometimes follows than, after a comparison; as, I wish nothing more, than to know his fate."—Ib., p. 92. See Murray's Gram., 8vo, i, 184. "Or by prefixing the adverbs more or less, in the comparative, and most or least, in the superlative."—Merchant's Gram., p. 36. "A pronoun is a word used instead of a noun."—Ib., p. 17; Comly, 15. "In monosyllables the Comparative is regularly formed by adding r or er."—Perley's Gram., p. 21. "He has particularly named these, in distinction to others."—Harris's Hermes, p. vi. "To revive the decaying taste of antient Literature."—Ib., p. xv. "He found the greatest difficulty of writing."—HUME: in Priestley's Gram., p. 159.
"And the tear that is wip'd with a little address
May be followed perhaps with a smile."
Webster's American Spelling-Book, p. 78;
and Murray's E. Reader, p. 212.