“A short simple sentence should rarely be divided by the comma.”—­Felton cor. “A regular and virtuous education is an inestimable blessing.”—­L.  Mur. cor. “Such equivocal expressions mark an intention to deceive.”—­Id. “They are this and that, with their plurals these and those.”—­Bullions cor. “A nominative and a verb sometimes make a complete sentence; as, He sleeps.”—­Felton cor. “TENSE expresses the action as connected with certain relations of time; MOOD represents it as further modified by circumstances of contingency, conditionality, &c.”—­Bullions cor. “The word noun means name.”—­Ingersoll cor. “The present or active participle I explained then.”—­Id. “Are some verbs used both transitively and intransitively?”—­Cooper cor. “Blank verse is verse without rhyme.”—­Brown’s Institutes, p. 235.  “A distributive adjective denotes each one of a number considered separately.”—­Hallock cor.

   “And may at last my weary age
    Find out the peaceful hermitage.” 
        —­MILTON:  Ward’s Gr., 158; Hiley’s, 124.

UNDER THE EXCEPTION CONCERNING SIMPLE SENTENCES.

“A noun without an article to limit it, is taken in its widest sense.”—­Lennie, p. 6.  “To maintain a steady course amid all the adversities of life, marks a great mind.”—­Day cor. “To love our Maker supremely and our neighbour as ourselves, comprehends the whole moral law.”—­Id. “To be afraid to do wrong, is true courage.”—­Id. “A great fortune in the hands of a fool, is a great misfortune.”—­Bullions cor. “That he should make such a remark, is indeed strange.”—­Farnum cor. “To walk in the fields and groves, is delightful.”—­Id. “That he committed the fault, is most certain.”—­Id. “Names common to all things of the same sort or class, are called Common nouns; as, man, woman, day.”—­Bullions cor. “That it is our duty to be pious, admits not of any doubt.”—­Id. “To endure misfortune with resignation, is the characteristic of a great mind.”—­Id. “The assisting of a friend in such circumstances, was certainly a duty.”—­Id. “That a life of virtue is the safest, is certain.”—­Hallock cor. “A collective noun denoting the idea of unity, should be represented by a pronoun of the singular number.”—­Id.

UNDER RULE II.—­OF SIMPLE MEMBERS.

“When the sun had arisen, the enemy retreated.”—­Day cor. “If he become rich, he may be less industrious.”—­Bullions cor. “The more I study grammar, the better I like it.”—­Id. “There is much truth in the old adage, that fire is a better servant than master.”—­Id. “The verb do, when used as an auxiliary, gives force