“The disjunctive conjunction connects words or sentences, and suggests an opposition of meaning, more or less direct.”—­Id. “I shall now present to you a few lines.”—­Bucke cor. “Common names, or substantives, are those which stand for things assorted.”—­Id. “Adjectives, in the English language, are not varied by genders, numbers, or cases; their only inflection is for the degrees of comparison.”—­Id. “Participles are [little more than] adjectives formed from verbs.”—­Id. “I do love to walk out on a fine summer evening.”—­Id. “Ellipsis, when applied to grammar, is the elegant omission of one or more words of a sentence.”—­Merchant cor. “The preposition to is generally required before verbs in the infinitive mood, but after the following verbs it is properly omitted; namely, bid, dare, feel, need, let, make, hear, see:  as, ’He bid me do it;’ not, ‘He bid me to do it.’”—­Id. “The infinitive sometimes follows than, for the latter term of a comparison; as, [’Murray should have known better than to write, and Merchant, better than to copy, the text here corrected, or the ambiguous example they appended to it.’]”—­Id. “Or, by prefixing the adverb more or less, for the comparative, and most or least, for the superlative.”—­Id. “A pronoun is a word used in stead of a noun.”—­Id. “From monosyllables, the comparative is regularly formed by adding r or er.”—­Perley cor. “He has particularly named these, in distinction from others.”—­Harris cor. “To revive the decaying taste for ancient literature.”—­Id. “He found the greatest difficulty in writing.”—­Hume cor.

   “And the tear, that is wiped with a little address,
    May be followed perhaps by a smile.”—­Cowper, i, 216.

CHAPTER XI.—­INTERJECTIONS.

CORRECTIONS IN THE USE OF INTERJECTIONS.

“Of chance or change, O let not man complain.”—­Beattie’s Minstrel, B. ii, l. 1.  “O thou persecutor! O ye hypocrites!”—­Russell’s Gram., p. 92. “O thou my voice inspire, Who touch’d Isaiah’s hallow’d lips with fire!”—­Pope’s Messiah. “O happy we! surrounded by so many blessings!”—­Merchant cor. “O thou who art so unmindful of thy duty!”—­Id. “If I am wrong, O teach my heart To find that better way.”—­Murray’s Reader, p. 248.  “Heus! evocate huc Davum.”—­Ter.  “Ho! call Davus out hither.”—­W.  Walker cor. “It was represented by an analogy (O how inadequate!) which was borrowed from the ceremonies of paganism.”—­Murray cor. “O that Ishmael might live before