IMPROPRIETIES FOR CORRECTION.

FALSE SYNTAX UNDER RULE IX.

EXAMPLES UNDER NOTE I.—­AGREEMENT OF ADJECTIVES.

“I am not recommending these kind of sufferings to your liking.”—­BP.  SHERLOCK:  Lowth’s Gram., p. 87.

[FORMULE.—­Not proper, because the adjective these is plural, and does not agree with its noun kind, which is singular.  But, according to Note 1st under Rule 9th:  “Adjectives that imply unity or plurality, must agree with their nouns in number.”  Therefore, these should be this; thus, “I am not recommending this kind of sufferings.”]

“I have not been to London this five years.”—­Webster’s Philos.  Gram., p. 152.  “These kind of verbs are more expressive than their radicals.”—­Dr. Murray’s Hist. of Lang., Vol. ii, p. 163.  “Few of us would be less corrupted than kings are, were we, like them, beset with flatterers, and poisoned with that vermin.”—­Art of Thinking, p. 66.  “But it seems this literati had been very ill rewarded for their ingenious labours.”—­Roderick Random, Vol. ii, p. 87.  “If I had not left off troubling myself about those kind of things.”—­Swift.  “For these sort of things are usually join’d to the most noted fortune.”—­Bacon’s Essays, p. 101.  “The nature of that riches and long-suffering is, to lead to repentance.”—­Barclay’s Works, iii, 380.  “I fancy they are these kind of gods, which Horace mentions.”—­Addison, on Medals, p. 74.  “During that eight days they are prohibited from touching the skin.”—­Hope of Israel, p. 78.  “Besides, he had not much provisions left for his army.”—­Goldsmith’s Greece, i, 86.  “Are you not ashamed to have no other thoughts than that of amassing wealth, and of acquiring glory, credit, and dignities?”—­Ib., p. 192.  “It distinguisheth still more remarkably the feelings of the former from that of the latter.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., Vol. i, p. xvii.  “And this good tidings of the reign shall be published through all the world.”—­Campbell’s Gospels, Matt., xxiv, 14.  “This twenty years have I been with thee.”—­Gen., xxxi, 38.  “In these kind of expressions some words seem to be understood.”—­Walker’s Particles, p. 179.  “He thought these kind of excesses indicative of greatness.”—­Hunt’s Byron, p. 117.  “These sort of fellows are very numerous.”—­Spect., No. 486.  “Whereas these sort of men cannot give account of their faith.”—­Barclay’s Works, i, 444.  “But the question is, whether that be the words.”—­Ib., iii, 321.  “So that these sort of Expressions are not properly Optative.”—­Johnson’s Gram.  Com., p. 276.  “Many things are not that which they appear to be.”—­Sanborn’s Gram., p. 176.  “So that every possible means are used.”—­Formey’s Belles-Lettres, p. iv.

   “We have strict statutes, and most biting laws,
    Which for this nineteen years we have let sleep.”—­Shak.