“In the passive voice we say, ‘I am loved.’”—­Id. “Subjunctive Mood:  If I be smitten, If thou be smitten, If he be smitten.”—­Id. “I shall not be able to convince you how superficial the reformation is.”—­Chalmers cor. “I said to myself, I shall be obliged to expose the folly.”—­Chazotte cor. “When Clodius, had he meant to return that day to Rome, must have arrived.”—­J.  Q. Adams cor. “That the fact has been done, is doing, or will be done.”—­Peirce cor. “Am I to be instructed?”—­Wright cor. “I choose him.”—­Id. “John, who respected his father, was obedient to his commands.”—­Barrett cor.

   “The region echoes to the clash of arms.”—­Beattie cor.

    “And sitst on high, and mak’st creation’s top
    Thy footstool; and beholdst below thee—­all.”—­Pollok cor.

    “And see if thou canst punish sin and let
    Mankind go free.  Thou failst—­be not surprised.”—­Idem.

LESSON III—­MIXED EXAMPLES.

“What follows, might better have been wanting altogether.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “This member of the sentence might much better have been omitted altogether.”—­Id. “One or the other of them, therefore, might better have been omitted.”—­Id. “The whole of this last member of the sentence might better have been dropped.”—­Id. “In this case, they might much better be omitted.”—­Id. “He might better have said ’the productions.’”—­Id. “The Greeks ascribed the origin of poetry to Orpheus, Linus, and Musaeus.”—­Id. “It was noticed long ago, that all these fictitious names have the same number of syllables.”—­Phil.  Museum cor. “When I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, I determined to send him.”—­Bible cor. “I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God.”—­Id. “As for such, I wish the Lord would open their eyes.”  Or, better:  “May the Lord open (or, I pray the Lord to open) their eyes.”—­Barclay cor. “It would have made our passage over the river very difficult.”—­Walley cor. “We should not have been able to carry our great guns.”—­Id. “Others would have questioned our prudence, if we had.”—­Id. “Beware thou be not BECAESARED; i.e., Beware that thou do not dwindle—­or, lest thou dwindle—­into a mere Caesar.”—­Harris cor. “Thou raisedst (or, familiarly, thou raised) thy voice to record the stratagems of needy heroes.”—­Arbuthnot cor. “Life hurries off apace; thine is almost gone already.”—­Collier cor. “’How unfortunate has this accident made