to occur in the future.”—­The Well-Wishers’ Grammar, Introd., p. 5.  “Nouns are either male, female, or neither.”—­Fowle’s Common School Grammar, Part Second, p. 12.  “Possessive Adjectives express possession, and distinguish nouns from each other by showing to what they belong; as, my hat, John’s hat.”—­Ib., p. 31.

PROMISCUOUS EXAMPLES OF FALSE SYNTAX.

LESSON I.—­VARIOUS RULES.

“What is the reason that our language is less refined than that of Italy, Spain, or France?”—­Murray’s Key, 8vo, p. 185.  “What is the reason that our language is less refined than that of France?”—­Ingersoll’s Gram., p. 152. “’I believe your Lordship will agree with me, in the reason why our language is less refined than those of Italy, Spain, or France.’  DEAN SWIFT.  Even in this short sentence, we may discern an inaccuracy—­’why our language is less refined than those of Italy, Spain, or France;’ putting the pronoun those in the plural, when the antecedent substantive to which it refers is in the singular, our language.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 228.  “The sentence might have been made to run much better in this way; ’why our language is less refined than the Italian, Spanish, or French.’”—­Ibid. “But when arranged in an entire sentence, which they must be to make a complete sense, they show it still more evidently.”—­L.  Murray’s Gram., p. 65.  “This is a more artificial and refined construction than that, in which the common connective is simply made use of.”—­Ib., p. 127.  “We shall present the reader with a list of Prepositions, which are derived from the Latin and Greek languages.”—­Ib., p. 120.  “Relatives comprehend the meaning of a pronoun and conjunction copulative.”—­Ib., p. 126.  “Personal pronouns being used to supply the place of the noun, are not employed in the same part of the sentence as the noun which they represent.”—­Ib., p. 155; R.  C. Smith’s Gram., 131.  “There is very seldom any occasion for a substitute in the same part where the principal word is present.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 155.  “We hardly consider little children as persons, because that term gives us the idea of reason and reflection.”—­Priestley’s Gram., p. 98; Murray’s, 157; Smith’s, 133; and others.  “The occasion of exerting each of these qualities is different.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 95; Murray’s Gram., 302; Jamieson’s Rhet., 66.  “I’ll tell you who time ambles withal, who time trots withal, who time gallops withal and who he stands still withal.  I pray thee, who doth he trot withal?”—­Shakspeare.  “By greatness, I do not only mean the bulk of any single object, but the largeness of a whole view.”—­Addison.  “The question may then be put, What does he more than mean?”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 103.  “The question might be put, what