“And children are more busy in their play
    Than those that wiseliest pass their time away.”—­Butler cor.

CHAPTER IX.—­CONJUNCTIONS.

CORRECTIONS IN THE USE OF CONJUNCTIONS.

“A Verb is so called from the Latin verbum, a word.”—­Bucke cor. “References are often marked by letters or figures.”—­Adam and Gould cor. (1.) “A Conjunction is a word which joins words or sentences together.”—­Lennie, Bullions and Brace, cor. (2.) “A Conjunction is used to connect words or sentences together.”—­R.  C. Smith cor. (3.) “A Conjunction is used to connect words or sentences.”—­Maunder cor. (4.) “Conjunctions are words used to join words or sentences.”—­Wilcox cor. (5.) “A Conjunction is a word used to connect words or sentences.”—­M’Culloch, Hart, and Day, cor. (6.) “A Conjunction joins words or sentences together.”—­Macintosh and Hiley cor. (7.) “The Conjunction joins words or sentences together.”—­L.  Murray cor. (8.) “Conjunctions connect words or sentences to each other.”—­Wright cor. (9.) “Conjunctions connect words or sentences.”—­Wells and Wilcox cor. (10.) “The conjunction is a part of speech, used to connect words or sentences.”—­Weld cor. (11.) “A conjunction is a word used to connect words or sentences together.”—­Fowler cor. (12.) “Connectives are particles that unite words or sentences in construction.”—­Webster cor. “English Grammar is miserably taught in our district schools; the teachers know little or nothing about it.”—­J.  O. Taylor cor. “Lest, instead of preventing diseases, you draw them on.”—­Locke cor. “The definite article the is frequently applied to adverbs in the comparative or the superlative degree.”—­Murray et al. cor. “When nouns naturally neuter are assumed to be masculine or feminine.”—­Murray cor. “This form of the perfect tense represents an action as completely past, though often as done at no great distance of time, or at a time not specified.”—­Id. “The Copulative Conjunction serves to connect words or clauses, so as to continue a sentence, by expressing an addition, a supposition, a cause, or a consequence.”—­Id. “The Disjunctive Conjunction serves, not only to continue a sentence by connecting its parts, but also to express opposition of meaning, either real or nominal.”—­Id. “If we open the volumes of our divines, philosophers, historians, or artists, we shall find that they abound with all the terms necessary to communicate the observations and discoveries of their authors.”—­Id. “When a disjunctive conjunction occurs between a