a single impulse of the voice, and uniting in one sound, are called a diphthong.”—­Cooper cor. “Two or more sentences united together are called a Compound Sentence.”—­Day cor. “Two or more words rightly put together, but not completing an entire proposition, are called a Phrase.”—­Id. “But the common number of times is five.”  Or, to state the matter truly:  “But the common number of tenses is six.”—­Brit.  Gram. cor. “Technical terms, injudiciously introduced, are an other source of darkness in composition.”—­Jamieson cor. “The United States are the great middle division of North America.”—­Morse cor. “A great cause of the low state of industry, was the restraints put upon it.”—­Priestley’s Gram., p. 199; Churchill’s, 414.  “Here two tall ships become the victor’s prey.”—­Rowe cor. “The expenses incident to an outfit are surely no object.”—­The Friend cor.

   “Perhaps their loves, or else their sheep,
    Were all that did their silly thoughts so busy keep.”—­Milt. cor.

UNDER NOTE VI.—­CHANGE OF THE NOMINATIVE.

“Much care has been taken, to explain all the kinds of words.”—­Inf.  S. Gr. cor. “Not fewer [years] than three years, are spent in attaining this faculty.”  Or, perhaps better:  “Not less than three years’ time, is spent in attaining this faculty.”  Or thus:  “Not less time than three years, is spent,” &c.—­Gardiner cor. “Where this night are met in state Many friends to gratulate His wish’d presence.”—­Milton cor. “Peace! my darling, here’s no danger, Here’s no ox anear thy bed.”—­Watts cor. “But all of these are mere conjectures, and some of them very unhappy ones.”—­Coleridge cor. “The old theorists’ practice of calling the Interrogatives and Repliers ADVERBS, is only a part of their regular system of naming words.”—­O.  B. Peirce cor. “Where several sentences occur, place them in the order of the facts.”—­Id. “And that all the events in conjunction make a regular chain of causes and effects.”—­Kames cor.  “In regard to their origin, the Grecian and Roman republics, though equally involved in the obscurities and uncertainties of fabulous events, present one remarkable distinction.”—­Adams cor. “In these respects, man is left by nature an unformed, unfinished creature.”—­Bp.  Butler cor. “The Scriptures are the oracles of God himself.”—­Hooker cor. “And at our gates are all kinds of pleasant fruits.”—­S.  Song cor. “The preterits of pluck, look, and toss, are, in speech, pronounced pluckt, lookt, tosst.”—­Fowler corrected.

   “Severe the doom that days prolonged impose,
    To stand sad witness of unnumbered woes!”—­Melmoth cor.