E. Gram., p. 3. (See my 2d Rule for Spelling, of which this is a partial copy.) “The relation of Maria as being the object of the action, is expressed by the change of the noun Maria to Mariam;” [i. e., in the Latin language.]—­Booth cor. “In analyzing a proposition, one must first divide it into its logical subject and predicate.”—­Andrews and Stoddard cor. “In analyzing a simple sentence, one should first resolve it into its logical subject and logical predicate.”—­Wells cor.

UNDER NOTE XII.—­OF PARTICIPLES AND NOUNS.

“The instant discovery of passions at their birth, is essential to our well-being.”—­Kames cor. “I am now to enter on a consideration of the sources of the pleasures of taste.”—­Blair cor. “The varieties in the use of them are indeed many.”—­Murray cor. “The changing of times and seasons, the removing and the setting-up of kings, belong to Providence alone.”—­Id. “Adherence to the partitions, seemed the cause of France; acceptance of the will, that of the house of Bourbon.”—­Bolingbroke cor. “An other source of darkness in composition, is the injudicious introduction of technical words and phrases.”—­Campbell cor. “These are the rules of grammar; by observing which, you may avoid mistakes.”—­L.  Murray et al. cor. “By observing the rules, you may avoid mistakes.”—­Alger cor. “By observing these rules, he succeeded.”—­Frost cor. “The praise bestowed on him was his ruin.”—­Id. “Deception is not convincement.”—­Id. “He never feared the loss of a friend.”—­Id. “The making of books is his amusement.”—­Alger cor. “We call it the declining—­(or, the declension—­) of a noun.”—­Ingersoll cor. “Washington, however, pursued the same policy of neutrality, and opposed firmly the taking of any part in the wars of Europe.”—­Hall and Baker cor. “The following is a note of Interrogation, or of a question:  (?).”—­Inf.  S. Gram. cor. “The following is a note of Admiration, or of wonder:  (!).”—­Id. “The use or omission of the article A forms a nice distinction in the sense.”—­Murray cor. “The placing of the preposition before the word, which it governs, is more graceful.”—­Churchill cor. (See Lowth’s Gram., p. 96; Murray’s, i, 200; Fisk’s, 141; Smith’s, 167.) “Assistance is absolutely necessary to their recovery, and the retrieving of their affairs.”—­Bp.  Butler cor. “Which termination, [ish,] when added to adjectives, imports diminution, or a lessening of the quality.”—­Mur. and Kirkham cor. “After what has been