from his pocket.”—Id. “The
great constitutional feature of this institution being,
that directly after the acrimony of the last
election is over, the acrimony of the next begins.”—Dickens
cor. “His disregarding of his parents’
advice has brought him into disgrace.”—Farnum
cor. “Can you tell me why his father
made that remark?”—Id.
“Why does our teacher detain us
so long?”—Id. “I am
certain that the boy said so.”—Id.
“WHICH means any thing or things before named;
and THAT may represent any person or persons, thing
or things, that have been speaking, spoken to,
or spoken of.”—Perley cor.
“A certain number of syllables occurring in
a particular order, form a foot. Poetic feet
are so called because it is by their aid that the
voice, as it were, steps along.”—L.
Murray et al. cor. “Questions asked by
a principal verb only—as, ’Teach
I?’ ’Burns he?’ &c.,—are
archaisms, and now peculiar to the poets.”—A.
Murray cor. “Tell whether the 18th, the
19th, the 20th, the 21st, the
22d, or the 23d rule is to be used, and
repeat the rule.”—Parker and Fox
cor. “The resolution was adopted without
much deliberation, and consequently caused
great dissatisfaction.” Or: “The
resolution, which caused great dissatisfaction,
was adopted without much deliberation.”—
Iid. “The man is now much noticed
by the people thereabouts.”—Webb’s
Edward’s Gram. cor. “The sand prevents
them from sticking to one an other.”—Id.
“Defective verbs are those which are used only
in some of the moods and tenses.”—Greenleaf’s
Gram., p. 29; Ingersoll’s, 121; Smith’s,
90; Merchant’s, 64; Nutting’s, 68; L. Murray,
Guy, Russell, Bacon, Frost, Alger, S. Putnam, Goldsbury,
Felton, et al. cor. “Defective verbs are
those which want some of the moods or
tenses.”—Lennie et al. cor.
“Defective verbs want some of the parts
common to other verbs.”—Bullions
cor. “A Defective verb is one that wants
some of the parts common to verbs.”—Id.
“To the irregular verbs may be added the
defective; which are not only irregular, but also wanting
in some parts.”—Lowth cor.
“To the irregular verbs may be added the
defective; which are not only wanting in some parts,
but are, when inflected, irregular.”—Churchill
cor. “When two or more nouns occur together
in the possessive case.”—Farnum
cor. “When several short sentences come
together”—Id. “Words
are divided into ten classes, called Parts of Speech.”—L.
Ainsworth cor. “A passive verb has its agent
or doer always in the objective case, governed by
a preposition.”—Id. “I
am surprised at your inattention.”—Id.
“SINGULAR: Thou lovest, not You love.