E. Day cor. “The Objective Case denotes the object of a verb or a preposition.”—­Id. “Verbs of the second conjugation may be either transitive or intransitive.”—­Id. “Verbs of the fourth conjugation may be either transitive or intransitive.”—­Id. “If a verb does not form its past indicative by adding d or ed to the indicative present, it is said to be irregular.”—­Id. “The young lady is studying rhetoric and logic.”—­Cooper cor. “He writes and speaks the language very correctly.”—­Id. “Man’s happiness or misery is, in a great measure, put into his own hands.”—­Mur. cor. “This accident or characteristic of nouns, is called their Gender.”—­Bullions cor.

   “Grant that the powerful still the weak control;
    Be man the wit and tyrant of the whole.”—­Pope cor.

UNDER EXCEPTION I.—­TWO WORDS WITH ADJUNCTS.

“Franklin is justly considered the ornament of the New World, and the pride of modern philosophy.”—­Day cor. “Levity, and attachment to worldly pleasures, destroy the sense of gratitude to Him.”—­L.  Mur. cor. “In the following Exercise, point out the adjectives, and the substantives which they qualify.”—­Bullions cor. “When a noun or pronoun is used to explain, or give emphasis to, a preceding noun or pronoun.”—­Day cor. “Superior talents, and brilliancy of intellect, do not always constitute a great man.”—­Id. “A word that makes sense after an article, or after the phrase speak of, is a noun.”—­Bullions cor. “All feet used in poetry, are reducible to eight kinds; four of two syllables, and four of three.”—­Hiley cor. “He would not do it himself, not let me do it.”—­Lennie’s Gram., p. 64.  “The old writers give examples of the subjunctive mood, and give other moods to explain what is meant by the words in the subjunctive.”—­O.  B. Peirce cor.

UNDER EXCEPTION II.—­TWO TERMS CONTRASTED.

“We often commend, as well as censure, imprudently.”—­L.  Mur. cor. “It is as truly a violation of the right of property, to take a little, as to take much; to purloin a book or a penknife, as to steal money; to steal fruit, as to steal a horse; to defraud the revenue, as to rob my neighbour; to overcharge the public, as to overcharge my brother; to cheat the post-office, as to cheat my friend.”—­Wayland cor. “The classification of verbs has been, and still is, a vexed question.”—­Bullions cor. “Names applied only to individuals of a sort or class, and not common to all, are called Proper nouns.”—­Id. “A hero would desire to be loved, as well as to be reverenced.”—­Day cor. “Death, or some worse misfortune, now divides them.”  Better:  “Death, or some other misfortune, soon divides them.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 151.  “Alexander replied, ’The world will not permit two suns, nor two sovereigns.’”—­Goldsmith cor.