[Now parse the six lessons of the Thirteenth Praxis; taking, if the teacher please, the Italic or difficult words only; and referring to the exceptions or observations under the rules, as often as there is occasion.  Then proceed to the correction of the eighteen lessons of False Syntax contained in Chapter Twelfth, or the General Review.]

LESSON XXXIII.—­GENERAL RULE.

1.  Why were the general rule and the general or critical notes added to the foregoing code of syntax? 2.  What is the general rule? 3.  How many are there of the general or critical notes? 4.  What says Critical Note 1st of the parts of speech? 5.  What says Note 2d of the doubtful reference of words? 6.  What says Note 3d of definitions? 7.  What says Note 4th of comparisons? 8.  What says Note 5th of falsities? 9.  What says Note 6th of absurdities? 10.  What says Note 7th of self-contradiction? 11.  What says Note 8th of senseless jumbling? 12.  What says Note 9th of words needless? 13.  What says Note 10th of improper omissions? 14.  What says Note 11th of literary blunders? 15.  What says Note 12th of literary perversions? 16.  What says Note 13th of literary awkwardness? 17.  What says Note 14th of literary ignorance? 18.  What says Note 15th of literary silliness? 19.  What says Note 16th of errors incorrigible? 20.  In what place are the rules, exceptions, notes, and observations, in the foregoing system of syntax, enumerated and described? 21.  What suggestions are made in relation to the number of rules or notes, and the completeness of the system? 22.  What is remarked on the place and character of the critical notes and the general rule? 23.  What is noted in relation to the unamendable imperfections sometimes found in ancient writings?

[Now correct—­(or at least read, and compare with the Key—­) the sixteen lessons of False Syntax, arranged under appropriate heads, for the application of the General Rule; the sixteen others adapted to the Critical Notes; and the five concluding ones, for which the rules are various.]

CHAPTER XV.—­FOR WRITING.

EXERCISES IN SYNTAX.

[Fist][When the pupil has been sufficiently exercised in syntactical parsing, and has corrected orally, according to the formulas given, all the examples of false syntax designed for oral exercises, or so many of them as may be deemed sufficient; he should write out the following exercises, correcting them according to the principles of syntax given in the rules, notes, and observations, contained in the preceding chapters; but omitting or varying the references, because his corrections cannot be ascribed to the books which contain these errors.]

EXERCISE I.—­ARTICLES.