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210 ENGLISH GRAMMAR.
was created .iq a VERB, transitive, r~gular, in the Jast indica.tive: pasgive,
thil'o pel'son singular; affirms of. lin agrees with It.-RuLlI:
YIII. .. A verb agl'ell~," &c. (7'11;).
In the snme manuer, paroe the other ~entences analyzed (659); and
Ilnlll)'Ze nnd plrse the exercises following them page 143, al)d any correct
seut"IlC~B from any goou aUlhor.
PROMISCUOUS EXERCISES
O~ THE RULES OF SYNTAX, ETC.
~ In the preceding ., Exercises to be corrected," care bns beeD tuken
to Ill.,el t such eX:!Il' pIes Duly as can be cOl'reeted hy the rule, or the ob,
sel'vnti,,"s ulldel' wl,ich they are placed, or hy those which precede them.
In the f"Howing .. Promiscuous Exercises," no palticular arrangement is
observ .. d. Every sentence contains one error. many of them two, and
sOllie of I hem thl ee "I' more. Mnny of the errors, too, are such as art:
oftl'n made. and, on accollnt of our tamilial'it~· ",itb them, are uot so readily
noticed. Others are such as nohody wuuld make. and of course will at
once he detected. These are in'erted, nllt so much to be guarded against,
liS to iJlustl'ate and draw attenlion to the rule which tLey violate, and to
show that others which are not so obviolls, aud which are eometime, c"m·
rnitted, invoh'e the parne error. For example, nobody would say, "Him
wrile'." Sume perhaps might .ay. "Here is the mao whom everybody
8'Y8 i" the writet· of that letter; and yet the error iu both is the same,
anu violates Rule VI. 1n all the~e examples for correction, the ohject
aimed at i, to put the pnpil in possession of the ide" intended to be exprl·",·rI-nnd
tbe exercise for him is to express that irlea grarnmaticlllly,
in tIll' be,! manoer 'I'Ll'r€ can be no danger of imitatillC'; an expression
wbich he i, forewarned is wroog; while it WIll exercise his ju I~meut to
dete'" t, e (:'1'01'. I"st Li~ knowledge of grammar, auu be a profilable exel'­
cise in eomposilion to put the sentence right.
All these exercises Illay fir,t be corrected orally-showing wherein each
is wrong. and why-col'recting Ihe e'Tot'-and giving' a reason fOl'the
cha ge made. They may then be writteu out ill a COl" eele,] state. After
that each sentence may be analyzed as directed (658), aod then parsed
syntactIcally as dil'ected (983).
1.-1. Too great a \'ariety of studies perplex and weakeu the
judgment.-2, I called to see you, but you was not at home.-
3. '1'0 act with caution, but with steadiness and vigor, distinguish
the manll, character.-J, The crown of virtue is peace and
honor.-5. In the human species, tbe inlluenl'e of instinct and
habit are generally assisted by the suggestions of reason.­
ti The train of our ideas are often interrupted.-7. They were
both unfortunale, but neither of them were to blame.
2.-1. We arrived safel.V at our jouruey's end.-2. That is a
matter of no conl:lequence between you and 1.-3. This should
not happen between Buch friends as him and me.-i. Them