Laid, lay, lain, distinguished, 61-62. Lasso, plural of, 18. Last, latest, distinguished, 123. Lay, lie, laid, lain, distinguished, 61-62. Learn, teach, distinguished, 95. Lease, let, hire, distinguished, 95. Leave, let, distinguished, 100. Lend, loan, distinguished, 93. Lengthy, long, distinguished, 123. Less, fewer, smaller, distinguished, 109. Lesser, 110. Let, leave, distinguished, 100. Let, lease, hire, distinguished, 95. Letters, plural of, 19. Liable, likely, apt, distinguished, 119. Lie, lay, distinguished, 61-62; principal parts of, 62. Light, alight, distinguished, 62. Light-complected, 110. Lighted, lit, distinguished, 62. Like, as, distinguished, 142. Like, likely, probably, distinguished, 109. Like, love, distinguished, 95. Likely, liable, apt, distinguished, 119. Limit, limitation, distinguished, 31. Lion, feminine of, 21. Loan, lend, distinguished, 93. Locate, find, distinguished, 100. Long, lengthy, distinguished, 123. Lot, number, distinguished, 31. Love, like, distinguished, 95. Lovely, 124.
Mad, angry, distinguished, 128. Magnificent,
124. Manifestly, evidently, apparently, distinguished,
122. Maintain, assert, allege, etc., distinguished,
94-95. Majority, plurality, distinguished,
31. Man after man, number of, 58. Many,
much, distinguished, 119. Many a, number
of, 89. Marquis, feminine of, 21. Materialize,
appear, distinguished, 95. May, can, distinguished,
71. Me, myself, I, proper choice among, 43-45.
Me, my, before verbal nouns, 51. Memento,
plural of, 18. Mention, refer to, allude
to, distinguished, 99. Middle, centre, distinguished,
30. Might, distinguished from could,
71;
tense of the infinitive with, 79.
Misplaced adjectives and adverbs, 132-133; correlatives,
148-149. Misused nouns, 22-42; verbs, 92-108;
adjectives and adverbs, 119-129;
prepositions, 134-139; conjunctions, 143-146.
Monk, feminine corresponding to, 21. Most,
almost, distinguished, 109. Much, many,
distinguished, 119. Muchly, 110. MURRAY’S
DICTIONARY, quoted, 54, 94, 101, 119. Must,
tense of the infinitive with, 78-79. Mutual, common,
distinguished, 119. My, me, before verbal nouns,
51, 52. Myself, me, I, proper choice among,
43-45.
National use, 4-6. Near, nearly, distinguished,
109. Need, tense of the infinitive with, 78-79.
Negligence, neglect, distinguished, 31. Neither,
number of, 58, 89; distinguished from no one,
55-66. Neither—nor, number
of the verb
with singular subjects joined by, 89.
New, novel, distinguished, 123. Newspapers
and good use, 7. Nobody, number of, 58.