Syntax, p. 93.  “Write twenty short sentences containing only adjectives.”—­Abbot’s Teacher, p. 102.  “This general inclination and tendency of the language seems to have given occasion to the introducing of a very great corruption.”—­Lowth’s Gram., p. 60.  “The second requisite of a perfect sentence, is its Unity.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 311.  “It is scarcely necessary to apologize for omitting to insert their names.”—­Ib., p. vii.  “The letters of the English Language, called the English Alphabet, are twenty-six in number.”—­Ib., p. 2; T.  Smith’s, 5; Fisk’s, 10; Alger’s, 9; et al.  “A writer who employs antiquated or novel phraseology, must do it with design:  he cannot err from inadvertence as he may do it with respect to provincial or vulgar expressions.”—­Jamieson’s Rhet., p. 56.  “The Vocative case, in some Grammars, is wholly omitted; why, if we must have cases, I could never understand the propriety of.”—­Bucke’s Classical Gram., p. 45.  “Active verbs are conjugated with the auxiliary verb I have; passive verbs are conjugated with the auxiliary verb I am.”—­Ib., p. 57.  “What word, then, may and be called?  A Conjunction.”—­Smith’s New Gram., p. 37.  “Have they ascertained the person who gave the information?”—­Bullions’s E. Gram., p. 81.

UNDER CRITICAL NOTE X.—­OF IMPROPER OMISSIONS.

“All qualities of things are called adnouns, or adjectives.”—­Blair’s Gram., p. 10.

[FORMULE.—­Not proper, because this expression lacks two or three words which are necessary to the sense intended.  But according to Critical Note 10th, “Words necessary to the sense, or even to the melody or beauty of a sentence, ought seldom, if ever, to be omitted.”  The sentence may be amended thus:  “All words signifying concrete qualities of things, are called adnouns, or adjectives.”]

“The—­signifies the long or accented syllable, and the breve indicates a short or unaccented syllable.”—­Blair’s Gram., p. 118.  “Whose duty is to help young ministers.”—­N.  E. Discipline, p. 78.  “The passage is closely connected with what precedes and follows.”—­Philological Museum, Vol. i, p. 255 “The work is not completed, but soon will be.”—­Smith’s Productive Gram., p. 113.  “Of whom hast thou been afraid or feared?”—­Isaiah, lvii, 11.  “There is a God who made and governs the world.”—­Butler’s Analogy, p. 263.  “It was this made them so haughty.”—­Goldsmith’s Greece, Vol. ii, p. 102.  “How far the whole charge affected him is not easy to determine.”—­ Ib., i, p. 189.  “They saw, and worshipped the God, that made them.”—­ Bucke’s Gram., p. 157.  “The errors frequent in the use of hyperboles, arise either from overstraining, or introducing them on unsuitable occasions.”—­Murray’s