expresses action, or being.”—­Day’s District School Gram., pp. 11 and 61.  “The Objective Case denotes the object of a verb, or a preposition.”—­Ib., pp. 17 and 19.  “Verbs of the second conjugation may be either transitive, or intransitive.”—­Ib., p. 41.  “Verbs of the fourth conjugation may be either transitive, or intransitive.”—­Ib., 41.  “If a verb does not form its past indicative by adding d, or ed to the indicative present, it is said to be irregular.”—­Ib., 41.  “The young lady is studying rhetoric, and logic.”—­Cooper’s Pl. and Pr.  Gram., p. 143.  “He writes, and speaks the language very correctly.”—­Ib., p. 148.  “Man’s happiness, or misery, is, in a great measure, put into his own hands.”—­Murray’s Key, 8vo, p. 183.  “This accident, or characteristic of nouns, is called their Gender.”—­Bullions, E. Gram., 1843, p. 195.

   “Grant that the powerful still the weak controul;
    Be Man the Wit, and Tyrant of the whole.” 
        —­POPE:  Brit.  Poets, vi, 375.

UNDER EXCEPTION I.—­TWO WORDS WITH ADJUNCTS.

“Franklin is justly considered the ornament of the new world and the pride of modern philosophy.”—­Day’s District School Gram., p. 88.

[FORMULE.—­Not proper, because the words ornament and pride, each of which has adjuncts, are here connected by and without a comma before it.  But, according to Exception 1st to Rule 4th, “When the two words connected have several adjuncts, or when one of them has an adjunct that relates not to both, the comma is inserted.”  Therefore, a comma should be set before and; thus, “Franklin is justly considered the ornament of the New World, and the pride of modern philosophy.”]

“Levity and attachment to worldly pleasures, destroy the sense of gratitude to him.”—­Murray’s Key, 8vo, p. 183.  “In the following Exercise, point out the adjectives and the substantives which they qualify.”—­Bullions, Practical Lessons, p. 100.  “When a noun or pronoun is used to explain or give emphasis to a preceding noun or pronoun.”—­Day’s Gram., p. 87.  “Superior talents and briliancy of intellect do not always constitute a great man.”—­Ib., p. 92.  “A word that makes sense after an article or the phrase speak of, is a noun.”—­Bullions, Practical Lessons, p. 12.  “All feet used in poetry, are reducible to eight kinds; four of two syllables and four of three.”—­Hiley’s Gram., p. 123.  “He would not do it himself nor let me do it.”—­Bullions, E. Gram., p. 113.[464] “The old writers give examples of the subjunctive mode and give other modes to explain what is meant by the words in the subjunctive.”—­O.  B. Peirce’s Gram., p. 352.

UNDER EXCEPTION II.—­TWO TERMS CONTRASTED.