ERRORS RESPECTING PREPOSITIONS.

“Nouns are often formed by participles.”—­L.  Murray’s Index, Octavo Gram., ii, 290.

[FORMULE.—­Not proper, because the relation here intended, between are formed and participles, is not well signified by the preposition by.  But, according to Observation 7th, on this part of speech, “The prepositions have, from their own nature, or from custom, such an adaptation to particular terms and relations, that they can seldom be used one for an other without manifest impropriety.”  This relation would be better expressed by from; thus, “Nouns are often formed from participles.”]

“What tenses are formed on the perfect participle?”—­Ingersoll’s Gram., p. 104.  “Which tense is formed on the present?”—­Ibid. “When a noun or pronoun is placed before a participle, independently on the rest of the sentence,” &c.—­Ib., p. 150; Murray, 145; and others.  “If the addition consists in two or more words.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 176; Ingersoll’s, 177.  “The infinitive mood is often made absolute, or used independently on the rest of the sentence.”—­Mur., p. 184; Ing., 244; and others.  “For the great satisfaction of the reader, we shall present him with a variety of false constructions.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 189.  “For your satisfaction, I shall present you with a variety of false constructions.”—­Ingersoll’s Gram., p. 258.  “I shall here present you with a scale of derivation.”—­Bucke’s Gram., p. 81.  “These two manners of representation in respect of number.”—­Lowth’s Gram., p. 15; Churchill’s, 57; “There are certain adjectives, which seem to be derived without any variation from verbs.”—­Lowth’s Gram., p. 89.  “Or disqualify us for receiving instruction or reproof of others.”—­Murray’s Key, 8vo, p. 253.  “For being more studious than any other pupil of the school.”—­Ib., p. 226.  “From misunderstanding the directions, we lost our way.”—­Ib., p. 201.  “These people reduced the greater part of the island to their own power.”—­Ib., p. 261.[317] “The principal accent distinguishes one syllable in a word from the rest.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 236.  “Just numbers are in unison to the human mind.”—­Ib., p. 298.  “We must accept of sound instead of sense.”—­Ib., p. 298.  “Also, instead for consultation, he uses consult.”—­Priestley’s Gram., p. 143.  “This ablative seems to be governed of a preposition understood.”—­Walker’s Particles, p. 268.  “That my father may not hear on’t by some means or other.”—­Ib., p. 257.  “And besides, my wife would hear on’t by some means.”—­Ib., p. 81.  “For insisting in a requisition is so odious to them.”—­Robertson’s Amer., i, 206.  “Based in the great self-evident truths of liberty and equality.”—­Scholar’s Manual.  “Very little knowledge of their