Gram., the Compend.  “Mr. Addison has also much harmony in his style; more easy and smooth, but less varied than Lord Shaftesbury.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 127; Jamieson’s, 129.  “A number of uniform lines having all the same pause, are extremely fatiguing; which is remarkable in French versification.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., Vol. ii, p. 104.  “Adjectives qualify or distinguish one noun from another.”—­Fowle’s True Eng.  Gram., p. 13.  “The words one, other, and none, are used in both numbers.”—­Kirkham’s Gram., p. 107.  “A compound word is made up of two or more words, usually joined by an hyphen, as summer-house, spirit-less, school-master.”—­Blair’s Gram., p. 7.  “There is an inconvenience in introducing new words by composition which nearly resembles others in use before; as, disserve, which is too much like deserve.”—­Priestley’s Gram., p. 145.  “For even in that case, the trangressing the limits in the least, will scarce be pardoned.”—­Sheridan’s Lect., p. 119.  “What other are the foregoing instances but describing the passion another feels.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., i, 388. “‘Two and three are five.’  If each substantive is to be taken separately as a subject, then ‘two is five,’ and ‘three is five.’”—­Goodenow’s Gram., p. 87.  “The article a joined to the simple pronoun other makes it the compound another.”—­ Priestley’s Gram., p. 96.  “The word another is composed of the indefinite article prefixed to the word other.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 57; et al.  “In relating things that were formerly expressed by another person, we often meet with modes of expression similar to the following.”—­Ib., p. 191.  “Dropping one l prevents the recurrence of three very near each other.”—­Churchill’s Gram., p. 202.  “Sometimes two or more genitive cases succeed each other; as, ’John’s wife’s father.’”—­Dalton’s Gram., p. 14.  “Sometimes, though rarely, two nouns in the possessive case immediately succeed each other, in the following form:  ‘My friend’s wife’s sister.’”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 45.

EXERCISE XV.—­MANY ERRORS.

“Number is of a two fold nature,—­Singular and Plural:  and comprehends, accordingly to its application, the distinction between them.”—­Wright’s Gram., p. 37.  “The former, Figures of Words, are commonly called Tropes, and consists in a word’s being employed to signify something, which is different from its original and primitive meaning.”—­Murray’s Gram., 8vo, p. 337.  “The former, figures of words, are commonly called tropes, and consist in a word’s being employed to signify something that is different from its original and primitive meaning.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 132.  “A particular number of connected syllables are called feet, or measured paces.”—­Blair’s