LESSON III.—­MIXED EXAMPLES.

“The infinitive mood has, commonly, the sign to before it.”—­Harrison cor. “Thus, it is advisable to write singeing, from the verb to singe, by way of distinction from singing, the participle of the verb to sing.”—­Id. “Many verbs form both the preterit tense and the preterit participle irregularly.”—­Id. “Much must be left to every one’s taste and judgement.”—­Id. “Verses of different lengths, intermixed, form a Pindaric poem.”—­Priestley cor. “He’ll surprise you.”—­Frost cor. “Unequalled archer! why was this concealed?”—­ Knowles.  “So gayly curl the waves before each dashing prow.”—­Byron cor. “When is a diphthong called a proper diphthong?”—­Inf.  S. Gram. cor. “How many Esses would the word then end with?  Three; for it would be goodness’s.”—­Id. “Qu.  What is a triphthong? Ans.  A triphthong is a coalition of three vowels in one syllable.”—­Bacon cor. “The verb, noun, or pronoun, is referred to the preceding terms taken separately.”—­Murray.  “The cubic foot of matter which occupies the centre of the globe.”—­Cardell cor. “The wine imbibes oxygen, or the acidifying principle, from the air.”—­Id. “Charcoal, sulphur, and nitre, make gunpowder.”—­Id. “It would be readily understood, that the thing so labelled was a bottle of Madeira wine.”—­Id. “They went their ways, one to his farm, an other to his merchandise.”—­Matt., xxii, 5.  “A diphthong is the union of two vowels, both in one syllable.”—­Russell cor. “The professors of the Mohammedan religion are called Mussulmans.”—­Maltby cor. “This shows that let is not a mere sign of the imperative mood, but a real verb.”—­Id. “Those preterits and participles which are first mentioned in the list, seem to be the most eligible.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 107; Fisk’s, 81; Ingersoll’s, 103.  “Monosyllables, for the most part, are compared by er and est, and dissyllables, by more and most.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 47.  “This termination, added to a noun or an adjective, changes it into a verb:  as, modern, to modernize; a symbol, to symbolize.”—­ Churchill cor. “An Abridgement of Murray’s Grammar, with additions from Webster, Ash, Tooke, and others.”—­Maltby’s Gram., p. 2.  “For the sake of occupying the room more advantageously, the subject of Orthography is merely glanced at.”—­Nutting cor. “So contended the accusers of Galileo.”—­O.  B. Peirce cor. Murray says, “They were travelling