Blair cor. “Some adverbs admit of comparison; as, soon, sooner, soonest.”—­Bucke cor. “Having exposed himself too freely in different climates, he entirely lost his health.”—­L.  Mur. cor. “The verb must agree with its nominative in number and person.”—­Buchanan cor. “Write twenty short sentences containing adjectives.”—­Abbott cor. “This general tendency of the language seems to have given occasion to a very great corruption.”—­ Churchill’s Gram., p. 113.  “The second requisite of a perfect sentence is unity.”—­L.  Murray cor. “It is scarcely necessary to apologize for omitting their names.”—­Id. “The letters of the English alphabet are twenty-six.”—­Id. et al. cor. “He who employs antiquated or novel phraseology, must do it with design; he cannot err from inadvertence, as he may with respect to provincial or vulgar expressions.”—­Jamieson cor. “The vocative case, in some grammars, is wholly omitted; why, if we must have cases, I could never understand.”—­Bucke cor. “Active verbs are conjugated with the auxiliary verb have; passive verbs, with the auxiliary am or be.”—­Id. “What then may AND be called?  A conjunction.”—­Smith cor. “Have they ascertained who gave the information?”—­Bullions cor.

UNDER CRITICAL NOTE X.—­OF IMPROPER OMISSIONS.

“All words signifying concrete qualities of things, are called adnouns, or adjectives.”—­Rev. D. Blair cor. “The macron [[=]] signifies a long or accented syllable, and the breve [[~]] indicates a short or unaccented syllable.”—­Id. “Whose duty it is, to help young ministers.”—­Friends cor. “The passage is closely connected with what precedes and what follows.”—­Phil.  Mu. cor. “The work is not completed, but it soon will be.”—­R.  C. Smith cor. “Of whom hast thou been afraid, or whom hast thou feared?”—­Bible cor. “There is a God who made, and who governs, the world.”—­Bp.  Butler cor. “It was this that made them so haughty.”—­Goldsmith cor. “How far the whole charge affected him, it is not easy to determine.”—­Id. “They saw these wonders of nature, and worshiped the God that made them.”—­Bucke cor. “The errors frequent in the use of hyperboles, arise either from overstraining them, or from introducing them on unsuitable occasions.”—­L.  Mur. cor. “The preposition in is set before the names of countries, cities, and large towns; as, ‘He lives in France, in London, or in Birmingham.’  But, before the names of villages, single houses, or foreign cities, at is used; as, ‘He lives at Hackney.’”—­Id. et al. cor. “And, in such recollection, the thing is not figured as in our view, nor is