“I am not sure that he will be present.”—­Id. “We left New York on Tuesday.”—­Id. “He left the city, as he told me, before the arrival of the steamer.”—­Id. “We told him that he must leave us;”—­Id. “We told him to leave us.”—­Id. “Because he was unable to persuade the multitude, he left the place, in disgust.”—­Id. “He left the company, and took his brother with him.”—­Id. “This stating, or declaring, or denying of any thing, is called the indicative mood, or manner of speaking.”—­Weld cor. “This took place at our friend Sir Joshua Reynolds’s.”—­Id. “The manner in which a young lady may employ herself usefully in reading, will be the subject of an other paper.”—­Id. “Very little time is necessary for Johnson to conclude a treaty with the bookseller.”—­Id. “My father is not now sick; but if he were, your services would be welcome.”—­Chandler’s Common School Gram., Ed. of 1847, p. 79. “Before we begin to write or speak, we ought to fix in our minds a clear conception of the end to be aimed at.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “Length of days is in her right hand; and, in her left hand, are riches and honour.”—­See Proverbs, iii, 16.  “The active and the passive present express different ideas.”—­Bullions cor. “An Improper Diphthong, (sometimes called a Digraph,) is a diphthong in which only one of the vowels is sounded.”—­Fowler cor. (See G. Brown’s definition.) “The real origin of the words is to be sought in the Latin.”—­Fowler cor. “What sort of alphabet the Gothic languages possess, we know; what sort of alphabet they require, we can determine.”—­Id. “The Runic alphabet, whether borrowed or invented by the early Goths, is of greater antiquity than either the oldest Teutonic or the Moeso-Gothic alphabet.”—­Id. “Common to the masculine and neuter genders.”—­Id. “In the Anglo-Saxon, HIS was common to both the masculine and the Neuter Gender.”—­Id. “When time, number, or dimension, is specified, the adjective follows the substantive.”—­Id. “Nor pain, nor grief nor anxious fear, Invades thy bounds.”—­Id. “To Brighton, the Pavilion lends a lath-and-plaster grace.”—­Fowler cor. “From this consideration, I have given to nouns but one person, the THIRD.”—­D.  C. Allen cor.

   “For it seems to guard and cherish
    E’en the wayward dreamer—­me.”—­Anon. cor.

CHAPTER XII.—­GENERAL REVIEW.

CORRECTIONS UNDER ALL THE PRECEDING RULES AND NOTES.

LESSON I.—­ARTICLES.