“The fundamental rule for the construction of sentences, the rule into which all others might be resolved, undoubtedly is, to communicate, in the clearest and most natural order, the ideas which we mean to express.”—­Blair and Jamieson cor. “He left a son of a singular character, who behaved so ill that he was put in prison.”—­L.  Murray cor. “He discovered in the youth some disagreeable qualities which to him were wholly unaccountable.”—­Id. “An emphatical pause is made after something of peculiar moment has been said, on which we wish to fix the hearer’s attention.”  Or:  “An emphatical pause is made after something has been said which is of peculiar moment, and on which we wish to fix the hearer’s attention.”—­Blair and Murray cor. “But we have duplicates of each, agreeing in movement, though differing in measure, and making different impressions on the ear,”—­Murray cor.

UNDER NOTE VI.—­OF THE WORD THAT.

“It will greatly facilitate the labours of the teacher, and, at the same time, it will relieve the pupil from many difficulties.”—­Frost cor. “While the pupil is engaged in the exercises just mentioned, it will be proper for him to study the whole grammar in course.”—­Bullions cor. “On the same ground on which a participle and an auxiliary are allowed to form a tense.”—­Beattie and Murray cor. “On the same ground on which the voices, moods, and tenses, are admitted into the English tongue.”—­L.  Murray cor. “The five examples last mentioned, are corrected on the same principle that is applied to the errors preceding them.”—­Murray and Ingersoll cor. “The brazen age began at the death of Trajan, and lasted till Rome was taken by the Goths.”—­Gould cor. “The introduction to the duodecimo edition is retained in this volume, for the same reason for which the original introduction to the Grammar is retained in the first volume.”—­L.  Murray cor. “The verb must also agree in person with its subject or nominative.”—­Ingersoll cor. “The personal pronoun ‘THEIR’ is plural for the same reason for which ‘WHO’ is plural.”—­Id. “The Sabellians could not justly be called Patripassians, in the same sense in which the Noetians were so called.”—­R.  Adam cor. “This is one reason why we pass over such smooth language without suspecting that it contains little or no meaning.”—­L.  Murray cor. “The first place at which the two armies came within sight of each other, was on the opposite banks of the river Apsus.”—­Goldsmith cor. “At the very time at which the author gave him the first book for his perusal.”—­Campbell cor. “Peter will sup at the time at which Paul will dine.”—­Fosdick cor. “Peter will be supping when Paul will enter.”—­Id. “These, while they may serve as models to those who may wish to imitate them, will give me an opportunity to cast more light upon the principles of this book.”—­Id.