me!’ cries such a one.”—Id.
“The muse that soft and sickly woos the
ear.”—Pollok cor. “A
man might better relate himself to a statue.”—Bacon
cor. “I heard thee say but now, thou liked
not that.”—Shak. cor. “In
my whole course of wooing, thou criedst, (or,
familiarly, thou cried,) Indeed!”—Id.
“But our ears have grown familiar with
’I have wrote, ‘I have drank,’
&c., which are altogether as ungrammatical.”—Lowth
et al. cor. “The court was in session
before Sir Roger came”—Addison
cor. “She needs—(or, if
you please, need,—) be no more with
the jaundice possessed”—Swift
cor. “Besides, you found fault with our victuals
one day when you were here.”—Id.
“If spirit of other sort, So minded, hath
(or has) o’erleaped these earthy bounds.”—Milton
cor. “It would have been more rational
to have forborne this.”—Barclay
cor. “A student is not master of it till
he has seen all these.”—Dr.
Murray cor. “The said justice shall summon
the party.”—Brevard cor. “Now
what has become of thy former wit and humour?”—Spect.
cor. “Young stranger, whither wanderst
thou?”—Burns cor. “SUBJ.
Pres. If I love, If thou love, If he
love. Imp. If I loved, If thou loved,
If he loved.”—Merchant cor.
“SUBJ. If I do not love, If thou do
not love, If he do not love.”—Id.
“If he has committed sins, they shall
be forgiven him.”—Bible cor.
“Subjunctive Mood of the verb to call,
second person singular: If thou call,
(rarely, If thou do call,) If thou called.”—Hiley
cor. “Subjunctive Mood of the verb to
love, second person singular: If thou love,
(rarely, If thou do love,) If thou loved.”—Bullions
cor. “I was; thou wast; he, she, or it,
was: We, you or ye, they, were.”—White
cor. “I taught, thou taughtest, (familiarly,
thou taught,) he taught.”—
Coar cor. “We say, ‘If it rain,’
‘Suppose it rain?’ ‘Lest it rain,’
‘Unless it rain.’ This manner of speaking
is called the SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD.”—Weld
cor. “He has arrived at what is deemed
the age of manhood.”—Priestley
cor. “He might much better have let
it alone.”—Tooke cor. “He
were better without it. Or: He would be
better without it.”—Locke
cor. “Hadst thou not been by.
Or: If thou hadst not been by.
Or, in the familiar style: Had not thou
been by,”—Shak. cor. “I
learned geography. Thou learned arithmetic.
He learned grammar.”—Fuller cor.
“Till the sound has ceased.”—Sheridan
cor. “Present, die; Preterit, died; Perf.
Participle, died.”—Six English
Grammars corrected.