of the agent may be omitted.”—­Id. “The Progressive and Emphatic forms give, in each case, a different shade of meaning to the verb.”—­Hart cor. “THAT may be called a Redditive Conjunction, when it answers to so or SUCH.”—­Ward cor. “He attributes to negligence your want of success in that business.”—­Smart cor. “Do WILL and GO express but one action?” Or:  “Does ‘will go’ express but one action?”—­Barrett cor. “Language is the principal vehicle of thought.”—­G.  Brown’s Inst., Pref., p. iii. “Much is applied to things weighed or measured; many, to those that are numbered. Elder and eldest are applied to persons only; older and oldest, to either persons or things.”—­Bullions cor. “If there are any old maids still extant, while misogynists are so rare, the fault must be attributable to themselves.”—­Kirkham cor. “The second method, used by the Greeks, has never been the practice of any other people of Europe.”—­Sheridan cor. “Neither consonant nor vowel is to be dwelt upon beyond its common quantity, when it closes a sentence.”  Or:  “Neither consonants nor vowels are to be dwelt upon beyond their common quantity, when they close a sentence.”  Or, better thus:  “Neither a consonant nor a vowel, when it closes a sentence, is to be protracted beyond its usual length.”—­Id. “Irony is a mode of speech, in which what is said, is the opposite of what is meant.”—­McElligott’s Manual, p. 103.  “The person speaking, and the person or persons spoken to, are supposed to be present.”—­Wells cor.; also Murray.  “A Noun is a name, a word used to express the idea of an object.”—­Wells cor. “A syllable is such a word, or part of a word, as is uttered by one articulation.”—­Weld cor.

   “Thus wond’rous fair; thyself how wond’rous then! 
    Unspeakable, who sitst above these heavens.”—­Milton, B. v, l. 156.

    “And feel thy sovran vital lamp; but thou
    Revisitst not these eyes, that roll in vain.”—­Id., iii, 22.

    “Before all temples th’ upright heart and pure.”—­Id., i, 18.

    “In forest wild, in thicket, brake, or den.”—­Id., vii, 458.

    “The rogue and fool by fits are fair and wise;
    And e’en the best, by fits, what they despise.”—­Pope cor.

THE KEY.—­PART IV.—­PROSODY.

CHAPTER I.—­PUNCTUATION.

SECTION I.—­THE COMMA.

CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE I.—­OF SIMPLE SENTENCES.