Gram., p. 118.  “Many poems, and especially songs, are written in the dactyl or anapaestic measure, some consisting of eleven or twelve syllables, and some of less.”—­Ib., p. 121.  “A Diphthong makes always a long Syllable, unless one of the vowels be droped.”—­ British Gram., p. 34.  “An Adverb is generally employed as an attributive, to denote some peculiarity or manner of action, with respect to the time, place, or order, of the noun or circumstance to which it is connected.”—­ Wright’s Definitions, Philos.  Gram., pp. 35 and 114.  “A Verb expresses the action, the suffering or enduring, or the existence or condition of a noun.”—­Ib., pp. 35 and 64.  “These three adjectives should be written our’s, your’s, their’s.”—­Fowle’s True Eng.  Gram., p. 22.  “Never was man so teized, or suffered half the uneasiness as I have done this evening.”—­ Tattler, No. 160; Priestley’s Gram., p. 200; Murray’s, i, 223.  “There may be reckoned in English four different cases, or relations of a substantive, called the subjective, the possessive, the objective, and the absolute cases.”—­Goodenow’s Gram., p. 31.  “To avoid the too often repeating the Names of other Persons or Things of which we discourse, the words he, she, it, who, what, were invented.”—­Brightland’s Gram., p. 85.  “Names which denote a number of the same things, are called nouns of multitude.”—­Infant School Gram., p. 21.  “But lest he should think, this were too slightly a passing over his matter, I will propose to him to be considered these things following.”—­Barclay’s Works, Vol. iii, p. 472.  “In the pronunciation of the letters of the Hebrew proper names, we find nearly the same rules prevail as in those of Greek and Latin.”—­Walker’s Key, p. 223.  “The distributive pronominal adjectives each, every, either, agree with the nouns, pronouns, and verbs of the singular number only.”—­Lowth’s Gram., p. 89. “Having treated of the different sorts of words, and their various modifications, which is the first part of Etymology, it is now proper to explain the methods by which one word is derived from another.”—­L.  Murray’s Gram., p. 130.

EXERCISE XVI.—­MANY ERRORS.

“A Noun with its Adjectives (or any governing Word with its Attendants) is one compound Word, whence the Noun and Adjective so joined, do often admit another Adjective, and sometimes a third, and so on; as, a Man, an old Man, a very good old Man, a very learned, judicious, sober Man.”—­British Gram., p. 195; Buchanan’s, 79.  “A substantive with its adjective is reckoned as one compounded word; whence they often take another adjective, and sometimes a third, and so on:  as, ’An old man; a good old man; a very learned, judicious, good old man.’”—­L.