UNDER NOTE XVII.—VARIOUS ERRORS.
"For the same reason, a neuter verb cannot become passive."—Lowth cor. "A period is a whole sentence complete in itself."—Id. "A colon, or member, is a chief constructive part, or the greatest division, of a sentence."—Id. "A semicolon, or half-member, is a smaller constructive part, or a subdivision, of a sentence or of a member."—Id. "A sentence or a member is again subdivided into commas, or segments."—Id. "The first error that I would mention is, too general an attention to the dead languages, with a neglect of our own tongue."—Webster cor. "One third of the importations would supply the demands of the people."—Id. "And especially in a grave style."—Murray's Gram., i, 178. "By too eager a pursuit, he ran a great risk of being disappointed."—Murray cor. "The letters are divided into vowels and consonants."—Mur. et al. cor. "The consonants are divided into mutes and semivowels."—Iidem. "The first of these forms is the most agreeable to the English idiom."—Murray cor. "If they gain, it is at too dear a rate."—Barclay cor. "A pronoun is a word used in stead of a noun, to prevent too frequent a repetition of it."—Maunder cor. "This vulgar error might perhaps arise from too partial a fondness for the Latin."—Ash cor. "The groans which too heavy a load extorts from her."—Hitchcock cor. "The numbers of a verb are, of course, the singular and the plural."—Bucke cor. "To brook no meanness, and to stoop to no dissimulation, are indications of a great mind."—Murray cor. "This mode of expression rather suits the familiar than the grave style."—Id. "This use of the word best suits a familiar and low style."—Priestley cor. "According to the nature of the composition, the one or the other may be predominant."—Blair cor. "Yet the commonness of such sentences prevents in a great measure too early an expectation of the end."—Campbell cor. "A eulogy or a philippic may be pronounced by an individual of one nation upon a subject of an other."—J. Q. Adams cor. "A French sermon is, for the most part, a warm animated exhortation."—Blair cor. "I do not envy those who think slavery no very pitiable lot."—Channing cor. "The auxiliary and the principal united constitute a tense."—Murray cor. "There are some verbs which are defective with respect to the persons."—Id. "In youth, habits of industry are the most easily acquired."—Id. "The apostrophe (') is used in place of a letter left out."—Bullions cor.