“A knowledge of grammar enables us to express ourselves better in conversation and in writing.”—­Sanborn cor. “And hence we infer, that there is no dictator here but use.”—­Jamieson cor. “Whence little is gained, except correct spelling and pronunciation.”—­Town cor. “The man who is faithfully attached to religion, may be relied on with confidence.”—­Merchant cor. “Shalt thou build me a house to dwell in?” Or:  “Shalt thou build a house for me to dwell in?”—­Bible cor. “The house was deemed polluted which was entered by so abandoned a woman.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “The farther he searches, the firmer will be his belief.”—­Keith cor. “I deny not that religion consists in these things.”—­Barclay cor. “Except the king delighted in her, and she were called by name.”—­Bible cor. “The proper method of reading these lines, is, to read them as the sense dictates.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “When any words become obsolete, or are used only in particular phrases, it is better to dispense with their service entirely, and give up the phrases.”—­Campbell and Mur cor. “Those savage people seemed to have no element but war.”—­L.  Mur. cor. “Man is a common noun, of the third person, singular number, masculine gender, and nominative case.”—­J.  Flint cor. “The orator, as circumstances require, will employ them all.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “By deferring repentence [sic—­KTH], we accumulate our sorrows.”—­L.  Murray cor. “There is no doubt that public speaking became early an engine of government.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “The different meanings of these two words, may not at first occur.”—­Id. “The sentiment is well expressed by Plato, but much better by Solomon.”—­L.  Murray et al. cor. “They have had a greater privilege than we.”—­L.  Mur. cor. “Every thing should be so arranged, that what goes before, may give light and force to what follows.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “So that his doctrines were embraced by great numbers.”—­Hist. cor. “They have taken an other and shorter cut.”—­South cor. “The imperfect tense of a regular verb is formed from the present by adding d or ed; as, love, loved.”—­Frost cor. “The pronoun their does not agree in number with the noun ‘man’, for which it stands.”—­Kirkham cor. “This mark [!] denotes wonder, surprise, joy, grief, or sudden emotion.”—­Bucke cor. “We all are accountable, each for himself.”—­L.  Mur. et al. cor. “If he has commanded it, I must obey.”—­R.  C. Smith cor. “I now present him a form of the diatonic scale.”—­Barber cor. “One after an other, their favourite rivers have been reluctantly abandoned.”  Or:  “One after an other of their favourite rivers have they reluctantly abandoned.”—­Hodgson cor. “Particular and peculiar are words of different import.”—­Dr.