NOTE VI.—­The adverb when, while, or where, is not fit to follow the verb is in a definition, or to introduce a clause taken substantively; because it expresses identity, not of being, but of time or place:  as, “Concord, is when one word agrees with another in some accidents.”—­Adam’s Gram., p. 151; Gould’s, 155.  Say, “Concord is the agreement of one word with an other in some accident or accidents.”

NOTE VII.—­The adverb no should not be used with reference to a verb or a participle.  Such expressions as, “Tell me whether you will go or no,” are therefore improper:  no should be not; because the verb go is understood after it.  The meaning is, “Tell me whether you will go or will not go;” but nobody would think of saying, “Whether you will go or no go.”

NOTE VIII.—­A negation, in English, admits but one negative word; because two negatives in the same clause, usually contradict each other, and make the meaning affirmative.  The following example is therefore ungrammatical:  “For my part, I love him not, nor hate him not.”—­Beauties of Shakspeare, p. 16.  Expunge the last not, or else change nor to and.

NOTE IX.—­The words ever and never should be carefully distinguished according to their sense, and not confounded with each other in their application.  Example:  “The Lord reigneth, be the earth never so unquiet.”—­Experience of St. Paul, p. 195.  Here, I suppose, the sense to require everso, an adverb of degree:  “Be the earth everso unquiet.”  That is,—­“unquiet in whatever degree.”

NOTE X.—­Adverbs that end in ly, are in general preferable to those forms which, for want of this distinction, may seem like adjectives misapplied.  Example:  “There would be scarce any such thing in nature as a folio.”—­Addison.  Better:—­“scarcely.”

IMPROPRIETIES FOR CORRECTION.

FALSE SYNTAX UNDER RULE XXI.

EXAMPLES UNDER NOTE I.—­THE PLACING OF ADVERBS.

“All that is favoured by good use, is not proper to be retained.”—­Murray’s Gram., ii, p. 296.

[FORMULE.—­Not proper, because the adverb not is not put in the most suitable place.  But, according to Note 1st under Rule 21st, “Adverbs must be placed in that position which will render the sentence the most perspicuous and agreeable.”  The sentence will be improved by placing not before all; thus, “Not all that is favoured by good use, is proper to be retained.”]