UNDER RULE II.—­OF EMPHATIC PAUSES.

“M,—­Malvolio;—­M,—­why, that begins my name.”—­SINGER’S SHAK., Twelfth Night.

“Thus, by the creative influence of the Eternal Spirit, were the heavens and the earth finished in the space of six days—­so admirably finished—­an unformed chaos changed into a system of perfect order and beauty—­that the adorable Architect himself pronounced it very good, and all the sons of God shouted for joy.”—­Historical Reader, p. 10.

“If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop remained in my country, I never would lay down my arms—­never, never, never.”—­Pitt’s Speech.

   “Madam, yourself are not exempt in this,—­
    Nor your son Dorset;—­Buckingham, nor you.”—­SHAK.

UNDER RULE III.—­OF FAULTY DASHES.

“‘You shall go home directly, Le Fevre,’ said my uncle Toby, ’to my house; and we’ll send for a doctor to see what’s the matter; and we’ll have an apothecary; and the corporal shall be your nurse:  and I’ll be your servant, Le Fevre.’”—­Sterne cor.

“He continued:  ’Inferior artists may be at a stand, because they want materials.’”—­Harris cor. “Thus, then, continued he:  ’The end, in other arts, is ever distant and removed.’”—­Id.

“The nouns must be coupled with and; and when a pronoun is used, it must be plural, as in the example.  When the nouns are disjoined, the pronoun must be singular.”—­Lennie cor.

“Opinion is a common noun, or substantive, of the third person, singular number, neuter gender, and nominative case.”—­Wright cor.

   “The mountain, thy pall and thy prison, may keep thee;
    I shall see thee no more, but till death I will weep thee.”
        —­See Felton’s Gram., p. 93.

MIXED EXAMPLES CORRECTED.

“If to accommodate man and beast, heaven and earth—­if this be beyond me, ’tis not possible.—­What consequence then follows?  Or can there be any other than this?—­if I seek an interest of my own, detached from that of others, I seek an interest which is chimerical, and can never have existence.”—­Harris.

“Again:  I must have food and clothing.  Without a proper genial warmth, I instantly perish.  Am I not related, in this view, to the very earth itself?—­to the distant sun, from whose beams I derive vigour?”—­Id.

“Nature instantly ebbed again; the film returned to its place; the pulse fluttered—­stopped—­went on—­throbbed—­stopped again—­moved—­stopped.—­ Shall I go on?—­No.”—­Sterne cor.

“Write ten nouns of the masculine gender;—­ten of the feminine;—­ten of the neuter; ten indefinite in gender.”—­Davis cor.

“The infinitive mood has two tenses; the indicative, six; the potential, four; the subjunctive, two; and the imperative, one.”—­Frazee cor. “Now notice the following sentences:  ’John runs.’—­’Boys run.’—­’Thou runnest.’”—­Id.