transitive verb be not used in stead of a neuter or intransitive; as, lay for lie, raise for rise, set for sit, &c.”—­Id. “On them depends the duration of our Constitution and our country.”—­Calhoun cor. “In the present sentence, neither the sense nor the measure requires WHAT.”—­Chandler cor. “The Irish thought themselves oppressed by the law that forbid them to draw with their horses’ tails.”—­Brightland cor. “So and willingly are adverbs. So is an adverb of degree, and qualifies willingly.  Willingly is an adverb of manner, and qualifies deceives.”—­Cutler cor. “Epicurus, for experiment’s sake, confined himself to a narrower diet than that of the severest prisons.”—­Id. “Derivative words are such as are formed from other words by prefixes or suffixes; as, injustice, goodness, falsehood.”—­Id. “The distinction here insisted on is as old as Aristotle, and should not be lost from sight.”  Or:  “and it should still be kept in view.”—­Hart cor. “The Tenses of the Subjunctive and Potential Moods.”  Or:  “The Tenses of the Subjunctive and the Potential Mood.”—­Id. “A triphthong is a union of three vowels, uttered by a single impulse of the voice; as, uoy in buoy”—­Pardon Davis cor. “A common noun is the name of a species or kind.”—­Id. “The superlative degree implies a comparison either between two or among more.”—­Id. “An adverb is a word serving to give an additional idea to a verb, a participle, an adjective, or an other adverb.”—­Id. “When several nouns in the possessive case occur in succession, each showing possession of things of the same sort, it is generally necessary to add the sign of the possessive case to each of them:  as, ’He sells men’s, women’s, and children’s shoes.’—­’Dogs’, cats’, and tigers’ feet are digitated.’”—­Id. “‘A rail-road is being made,’ should be, ‘A railroad is making;’ ‘A school-house is being built,’ should be, ‘A schoolhouse is building.’”—­Id. “Auxiliaries are of themselves verbs; yet they resemble, in their character and use, those terminational or other inflections which, in other languages, serve to express the action in the mood, tense, person, and number desired.”—­Id. “Please to hold my horse while I speak to my friend.”—­Id. “If I say, ‘Give me the book,’ I demand some particular book.”—­Noble Butler cor. “Here are five men.”—­Id. “After the active verb, the object may be omitted; after the passive, the name