“Potential means the having power or will;
    As, If you would improve, you should be still.”
        —­Tobitt’s Gram., p. 31.

UNDER NOTE XVII.—­VARIOUS ERRORS.

“For the same reason, a neuter verb cannot become a passive.”—­Lowth’s Gram., p. 74.  “The period is the whole sentence complete in itself.”—­Ib., p. 115.  “The colon or member is a chief constructive part, or greater division of a sentence.”—­Ib. “The semicolon or half member, is a less constructive part or subdivision, of a sentence or member.”—­Ib. “A sentence or member is again subdivided into commas or segments.”—­Ib., p. 116.  “The first error that I would mention, is, a too general attention to the dead languages, with a neglect of our own.”—­Webster’s Essays, p. 3.  “One third of the importations would supply the demands of people.”—­Ib., p. 119.  “And especially in grave stile.”—­Priestley’s Gram., p. 72.  “By too eager pursuit, he ran a great risk of being disappointed.”—­Murray’s Key, Octavo Gram., Vol. ii, p. 201.  “Letters are divided into vowels and consonants.”—­Murray’s Gram., i, p. 7; and others.  “Consonants are divided into mutes and semi-vowels.”—­Ib., i, 8; and others.  “The first of these forms is most agreeable to the English idiom.”—­Ib., i, 176.  “If they gain, it is a too dear rate.”—­Barclay’s Works, i, 504.  “A pronoun is a word used instead of a noun, to prevent a too frequent repetition of it.”—­Maunder’s Gram., p. 1.  “This vulgar error might perhaps arise from a too partial fondness for the Latin.”—­Dr. Ash’s Gram., Pref., p. iv.  “The groans which a too heavy load extorts from her.”—­Hitchcock, on Dyspepsy, p. 50.  “The numbers [of a verb] are, of course, singular and plural.”—­Bucke’s Gram. p. 58.  “To brook no meanness, and to stoop to no dissimulation, are the indications of a great mind.”—­Murray’s Key, ii, 236.  “This mode of expression rather suits familiar than grave style.”—­Murray’s Gram., i, 198.  “This use of the word rather suits familiar and low style.”—­Priestley’s Gram., p. 134.  “According to the nature of the composition the one or other may be predominant.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 102.  “Yet the commonness of such sentences prevents in a great measure a too early expectation of the end.”—­Campbell’s Rhet., p. 411.  “An eulogy or a philippie may be pronounced by an individual of one nation upon the subject of another.”—­Adams’s Rhet., i, 298.  “A French sermon, is for most part, a warm animated exhortation.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 288.  “I do not envy those who think slavery no very pitiable a lot.”—­Channing, on Emancipation, p. 52.  “The auxiliary and principal united, constitute a tense.”—­Murray’s Gram., i, 75.  “There are some verbs which are defective with respect to persons.”—­Ib., i, 109.  “In youth, the habits of industry are most easily acquired.”—­Murray’s Key, ii, 235.  “Apostrophe (’) is used in place of a letter left out.”—­Bullions’s Eng.  Gram., p. 156.