or should is implied.”—Ib.,
p. 192. “Single rhyme trochaic omits the
final short syllable.”—Ib.,
p. 244. “Agreeable to this, we read of names
being blotted out of God’s book,”—BURDER:
ib., p. 156; Webster’s Philos.
Gram., 155; Improved Gram., 107. “The
first person is the person speaking.”—Goldsbury’s
Common School Gram., p. 10. “Accent
is the laying a peculiar stress of the voice on a
certain letter or syllable in a word.”—Ib.,
Ed. of 1842, p. 75. “Thomas’ horse
was caught.”—Felton’s Gram.,
p. 64. “You was loved.”—Ib.,
p. 45. “The nominative and objective end
the same.”—Rev. T. Smith’s
Gram., p. 18. “The number of pronouns,
like those of substantives, are two, the singular and
the plural.”—Ib., p. 22. “I
is called the pronoun of the first person,
which is the person speaking.”—Frost’s
Practical Gram., p. 32. “The essential
elements of the phrase is an intransitive gerundive
and an adjective.”—Hazen’s
Practical Gram., p. 141. “Being rich
is no justification for such impudence.”—Ib.,
p. 141. “His having been a soldier in the
revolution is not doubted.”—Ib.,
p. 143. “Catching fish is the chief employment
of the inhabitants. The chief employment of the
inhabitants is catching fish.”—Ib.,
p. 144. “The cold weather did not prevent
the work’s being finished at the time specified.”—Ib.,
p. 145. “The former viciousness of that
man caused his being suspected of this crime.”—Ib.,
p. 145. “But person and number applied to
verbs means, certain terminations.”—Barrett’s
Gram., p. 69. “Robert fell a tree.”—Ib.,
p. 64. “Charles raised up.”—Ib.,
p. 64. “It might not be an useless waste
of time.”—Ib., p. 42.
“Neither will you have that implicit faith
in the writings and works of others which characterise
the vulgar,”—Ib., p. 5. “I,
is the first person, because it denotes the speaker.”—Ib.,
p. 46. “I would refer the student to Hedges’
or Watts’ Logic.”—Ib.,
p. 15. “Hedge’s, Watt’s, Kirwin’s,
and Collard’s Logic.”—Parker
and Fox’s Gram., Part III, p. 116. “Letters
are called vowels which make a full and perfect sound
of themselves.”—Cutler’s
Gram., p. 10. “It has both a singular
and plural construction.”—Ib.,
p. 23. “For he beholdest thy beams no more.”—Ib.,
p. 136. “To this sentiment the Committee
has the candour to incline, as it will appear by their
summing up.”—Macpherson’s
Ossian, Prelim. Disc., p. xviii. “This
is reducing the point at issue to a narrow compass.”—Ib.,
p. xxv. “Since the English sat foot upon
the soil.”—Exiles of Nova Scotia,
p. 12. “The arrangement of its different
parts are easily retained by the memory.”—Hiley’s
Gram., 3d Ed., p. 262. “The words employed
are the most appropriate which could have been selected.”—Ib.,