speakers, by expressing, incidentally, an act of ours.”—­Id. “Daniel’s predictions are now about being fulfilled.”  Or thus:  “Daniel’s predictions are now receiving their fulfillment”—­Id. “His scholarship entitles him to respect.”—­Id. “I doubted whether he had been a soldier.”—­Id. “The taking of a madman’s sword to prevent him from doing mischief, cannot be regarded as a robbery.”—­Id. “I thought it to be him; but it was not he.”—­Id. “It was not I that you saw.”—­Id. “Not to know what happened before you were born, is always to be a boy.”—­Id. “How long were you going?  Three days.”—­Id. “The qualifying adjective is placed next to the noun.”—­Id. “All went but I.”—­Id. “This is a parsing of their own language, and not of the author’s.”—­Wells cor. “Those nouns which denote males, are of the masculine gender.”  Or:  “Nouns that denote males, are of the masculine gender.”—­Wells, late Ed. “Those nouns which denote females, are of the feminine gender.”  Or:  “Nouns that denote females, are of the feminine gender.”—­Wells, late Ed. “When a comparison among more than two objects of the same class is expressed, the superlative degree is employed.”—­Wells cor. “Where d or t goes before, the additional letter d or t, in this contracted form, coalesces into one letter with the radical d or t.”—­Dr. Johnson cor. “Write words which will show what kind of house you live in—­what kind of book you hold in your hand—­what kind of day it is.”—­Weld cor. “One word or more are often joined to nouns or pronouns to modify their meaning.”—­Id. “Good is an adjective; it explains the quality or character of every person to whom, or thing to which, it is applied.”  Or:—­“of every person or thing that it is applied to.”—­Id. “A great public as well as private advantage arises from every one’s devoting of himself to that occupation which he prefers, and for which he is specially fitted.”—­Wayland, Wells, and Weld, cor. “There was a chance for him to recover his senses.”  Or:  “There was a chance that he might recover his senses.”—­Wells and Macaulay cor. “This may be known by the absence of any connecting word immediately preceding it.”—­Weld cor. “There are irregular expressions occasionally to be met with, which usage, or custom, rather than analogy, sanctions.”—­Id. “He added an anecdote of Quin relieving Thomson from prison.”  Or:  “He added an anecdote of Quin as relieving Thomson from prison.”  Or:  “He added an anecdote of Quin’s relieving of Thomson from prison.”  Or better:  “He also told how Quin relieved Thomson from prison.”—­Id. “The daily labour of her hands procures for her all that is necessary.”—­Id. “That it is I, should make no change in your determination.”—­Hart cor. “The classification of words into what are called the Parts of Speech.”—­Weld cor. “Such licenses may be explained among what are usually termed Figures.”—­Id.