UNDER NOTE V.—CONFUSION OF SENSES.
"The name of the possessor shall take a particular form to show its case."—Kirkham cor. "Of which reasons, the principal one is, that no noun, properly so called, implies the presence of the thing named."—Harris cor. "Boston is a proper noun, which distinguishes the city of Boston from other cities."—Sanborn cor. "The word CONJUNCTION means union, or the act of joining together. Conjunctions are used to join or connect either words or sentences."—Id. "The word INTERJECTION means the act of throwing between. Interjections are interspersed among other words, to express strong or sudden emotion."—Id. "Indeed is composed of in and deed. The words may better be written separately, as they formerly were."—Cardell cor. "Alexander, on the contrary, is a particular name; and is employed to distinguish an individual only."—Jamieson cor. "As an indication that nature itself had changed its course." Or:—"that Nature herself had changed her course."—History cor. "Of removing from the United States and their territories the free people of colour."—Jenifer cor. "So that gh may be said not to have its proper sound." Or thus: "So that the letters, g and h, may be said not to have their proper sounds."—Webster cor. "Are we to welcome the loathsome harlot, and introduce her to our children?"—Maturin cor. "The first question is this: 'Is reputable, national, and present use, which, for brevity's sake, I shall hereafter simply denominate good use, always uniform, [i. e., undivided, and unequivocal,] in its decisions?"—Campbell cor. "In personifications, Time is always masculine, on account of his mighty efficacy; Virtue, feminine, by reason of her beauty and loveliness."—Murray, Blair, et al. cor. "When you speak to a person or thing, the noun or pronoun is in the second person."—Bartlett cor. "You now know the noun; for noun means name."—Id. "T. What do you see? P. A book. T. Spell book."—R. W. Green cor. "T. What do you see now? P. Two books. T. Spell books."—Id. "If the United States lose their rights as a nation."—Liberator cor. "When a person or thing is addressed or spoken to, the noun or pronoun is in the second person."—Frost cor. "When a person or thing is merely spoken of, the noun or pronoun is in the third person."—Id. "The word OX also, taking the same plural termination, makes OXEN."—Bucke cor.
"Hail, happy States! yours is the blissful seat
Where nature's gifts and art's improvements meet."—Everett cor.
UNDER NOTE VI.—THE RELATIVE THAT.
(1.) "This is the most useful art that men possess."—L. Murray cor. "The earliest accounts that history gives us, concerning all nations, bear testimony to these facts."—Blair et al. cor. "Mr. Addison was the first that attempted a regular inquiry into the pleasures of taste."—Blair cor. "One of the first that introduced it, was Montesquieu."—Murray cor. "Massillon is perhaps the most eloquent sermonizer that modern times have produced."—Blair cor. "The greatest barber that ever lived, is our guiding star and prototype."—Hart cor.
(2.) "When prepositions are subjoined to nouns, they are generally the same that are subjoined to the verbs from which the nouns are derived."—Murray's Gram., p. 200. Better thus: "The prepositions which are subjoined to nouns, are generally the same that," &c.—Priestley cor. "The same proportions that are agreeable in a model, are not agreeable in a large building."—Kames cor. "The same ornaments that we admire in a private apartment, are unseemly in a temple."—Murray cor. "The same that John saw also in the sun."—Milton cor.
(3.) "Who can ever be easy, that is reproached with his own ill conduct?"—T. à Kempis cor. "Who is she that comes clothed in a robe of green?"—Inst., p. 267. "Who that has either sense or civility, does not perceive the vileness of profanity?"—G. Brown.
(4.) "The second person denotes the person or thing that is spoken to."—Kirkham cor. "The third person denotes the person or thing that is spoken of."—Id. "A passive verb denotes action received, or endured by the person or thing that is signified by its nominative."—Id. "The princes and states that had neglected or favoured the growth of this power."—Bolingbroke cor. "The nominative expresses the name of the person or thing that acts, or that is the subject of discourse."—Hiley cor.
(5.) "Authors that deal in long sentences, are very apt to be faulty."—Blair cor. "Writers that deal," &c.—Murray cor. "The neuter gender denotes objects that are neither male nor female."—Merchant cor. "The neuter gender denotes things that have no sex."—Kirkham cor. "Nouns that denote objects neither male nor female, are of the neuter gender."—Wells's Gram. of late, p. 55. Better thus: "Those nouns which denote objects that are neither male nor female, are of the neuter gender."—Wells cor. "Objects and ideas that have been long familiar, make too faint an impression to give an agreeable exercise to our faculties."—Blair cor. "Cases that custom has left dubious, are certainly within the grammarian's province."—L. Murray cor. "Substantives that end in ery, signify action or habit."—Id. "After all that can be done to render the definitions and rules of grammar accurate."—Id. "Possibly, all that I have said, is known and taught."—A. B. Johnson cor.
(6.) "It is a strong and manly style that should chiefly be studied."—Blair cor. "It is this [viz., precision] that chiefly makes a division appear neat and elegant."—Id. "I hope it is not I that he is displeased with."—L. Murray cor. "When it is this alone that renders the sentence obscure."—Campbell cor. "This sort of full and ample assertion, 'It is this that,' is fit to be used when a proposition of importance is laid down."—Blair cor. "She is not the person that I understood it to have been."—L. Murray cor. "Was it thou, or the wind, that shut the door?"—Inst., p. 267. "It was not I that shut it."—Ib.