[Fist][The following examples of false syntax are arranged for a General Review of the doctrines contained in the preceding Rules and Notes.  Being nearly all of them exact quotations, they are also a sort of syllabus of verbal criticism on the various works from which they are taken.  What corrections they are supposed to need, may be seen by inspection of the twelfth chapter of the Key.  It is here expected, that by recurring to the instructions before given, the learner who takes them as an oral exercise, will ascertain for himself the proper form of correcting each example, according to the particular Rule or Note under which it belongs.  When two or more errors occur in the same example, they ought to be corrected successively, in their order.  The erroneous sentence being read aloud as it stands, the pupil should say, “first, Not proper, because, &c.”  And when the first error has thus been duly corrected by a brief and regular syllogism, either the same pupil or an other should immediately proceed, and say, “Secondly, Not proper again, because,” &c.  And so of the third error, and the fourth, if there be so many.  In this manner, a class may be taught to speak in succession without any waste of time, and, after some practice, with a near approach to the PERFECT ACCURACY which is the great end of grammatical instruction.  When time cannot be allowed for this regular exercise, these examples may still be profitably rehearsed by a more rapid process, one pupil reading aloud the quoted false grammar, and an other responding to each example, by reading the intended correction from the Key.]

LESSON I.—­ARTICLES.

“And they took stones, and made an heap.”—­Com.  Bibles; Gen., xxxi, 46.  “And I do know a many fools, that stand in better place.”—­Beauties of Shak., p. 44.  “It is a strong antidote to the turbulence of passion, and violence of pursuit.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., Vol. i, p. xxiii.  “The word news may admit of either a singular or plural application.”—­Wright’s Gram., p. 39.  “He has earned a fair and a honorable reputation.”—­Ib., p. 140.  “There are two general forms, called the solemn and familiar style.”—­Sanborn’s Gram., p. 109.  “Neither the article nor preposition may be omitted.”—­Wright’s Gram., p 190.  “A close union is also observable between the Subjunctive and Potential Moods.”—­Ib., p. 72.  “We should render service, equally, to a friend, neighbour, and an enemy.”—­Ib., p. 140.  “Till an habit is obtained of aspirating strongly.”—­Sheridan’s Elocution, p. 49.  “There is an uniform, steady use of the same signs.”—­Ib., p. 163.  “A traveller remarks the most objects he sees.”—­Jamieson’s Rhet., p. 72.  “What is the name of the river on which London stands?  The Thames.”—­“We sometimes find the last line of a couplet or triplet stretched out to twelve syllables.”—­Adam’s