4.  Insert suitable conjunctions in place of the following dashes:  Love—­fidelity are inseparable.  Be shy of parties—­factions.  Do well—­boast not.  Improve time—­it flies.  There would be few paupers—­no time were lost.  Be not proud—­thou art human.  I saw—­it was necessary.  Wisdom is better—­wealth.  Neither he—­I can do it.  Wisdom—­folly governs us.  Take care—­thou fall.  Though I should boast—­am I nothing.

5.  Insert suitable prepositions in place of the following dashes:  Plead—­the dumb.  Qualify thyself—­action—­study.  Think often—­the worth—­time.  Live—­peace—­all men.  Keep—­compass.  Jest not—­serious subjects.  Take no part—­slander.  Guilt starts—­its own shadow.  Grudge not—­giving.  Go not—­sleep—­malice.  Debate not—­temptation.  Depend not—­the stores—­others.  Contend not—­trifles.  Many fall—­grasping—­things—­their reach.  Be deaf—­detraction.

6.  Correct the following sentences, and adapt the interjections to the emotions expressed by the other words:  Aha! aha!  I am undone.  Hey! io!  I am tired.  Ho! be still.  Avaunt! this way.  Ah! what nonsense.  Heigh-ho!  I am delighted.  Hist! it is contemptible.  Oh! for that sympathetic glow!  Ah! what withering phantoms glare!

PART III.

SYNTAX.

Syntax treats of the relation, agreement, government, and arrangement, of words in sentences.  The relation of words is their reference to other words, or their dependence according to the sense.

The agreement of words is their similarity in person, number, gender, case, mood, tense, or form.

The government of words is that power which one word has over an other, to cause it to assume some particular modification.

The arrangement of words is their collocation, or relative position, in a sentence.

CHAPTER I.—­SENTENCES.

A Sentence is an assemblage of words, making complete sense, and always containing a nominative and a verb; as, “Reward sweetens labour.”

The principal parts of a sentence are usually three; namely, the SUBJECT, or nominative,—­the attribute, or finite VERB,—­and the case put after, or the OBJECT[322] governed by the verb:  as, “Crimes deserve punishment.”

The other or subordinate parts depend upon these, either as primary or as secondary adjuncts; as, “High crimes justly deserve very severe punishments.”

Sentences are usually said to be of two kinds, simple and compound.[323]

A simple sentence is a sentence which consists of one single assertion, supposition, command, question, or exclamation; as, “David and Jonathan loved each other.”—­“If thine enemy hunger.”—­“Do violence to no man.”—­“Am I not an apostle?”—­1 Cor., ix, 1.  “What immortal glory shall I have acquired!”—­HOOKE:  Mur.  Seq., p. 71.