Well, I guess I’ll have to, since you say so.
Exercises for Inflectional Agility:
I find earth not gray but rosy, heaven not grim but fair of hue.
Do I stoop? I pluck a posy. Do I stand and stare? All’s blue.
—Browning.
I must have left my book on this table last night. (Read two ways.)
There are three pleasures pure and lasting, and all derived from inanimate things—books, pictures, and the face of nature.
—Hazlitt.