Take the sentences of Exercise 180 and parse all the Infinitives occurring in them. EXERCISE 144. S$ 268-273. (1.) What is a Gerund? (2.) Make three sentences with a Gerund as Subject; EXERCISE 145. (Same continued.) (1.) Correct the following expressions: 1. That commandment which forbids the doing murder... 2. The notion of attempting of a compromise. 3. The guarding ourselves from universal disaffection by police... 4. Much depends on the posing figures and drapery. 5. The dwelling on such thoughts is almost as blamable as the executing of them. 6. He put a stop to making of saleable drugs. 7. In constructing and depicting of characters, Werner, indeed, is little better than a mannerist. 8. In reading of poetry, above all, what forces, through this ignorance, are lost! (2.) Make six sentences in which forms of the Gerund compounded with be, have, are introduced. EXERCISE 146. S$ 274-276. (1.) Distinguish clearly between the Participle in -ing and the Gerund in -ing. (2.) Make six sentences with Participles in -ing and six with Gerunds in -ing. (3.) Explain the use of the Imperfect Participle in the following sentence: "Looking at the whole circumstances of the case, the following seems the wisest course." EXERCISE 147. §§ 277-284. Correct the following sentences :— 3. 1. Homer describes this river agreeable to the vulgar reading. 2. No one ever acted nobler or more suitable to a great emergency. Faction only fills the town with pamphlets and greater subjects are forgotten. 4. The dead are only happy. 5. The minister was unwillingly induced to accept the amendment. 6. Siberia even has some places where Nature smiles. 7. The sublime Longinus, in somewhat a later period, preserved the spirit of ancient Athens. 8. Always the new age brings with it new men. 9. Still going farther and farther back, we arrive at the name of Paul. 10. His exposition was so clear as even to be plain to the dullest. EXERCISE 148. § 286. (1.) Make three sentences with except used as a Preposition and three with except used as a Conjunction. Show that in each sentence the rule given is observed. (2.) How are the so-called Prepositions save, but, used in Shakspeare? (3.) Make three sentences with notwithstanding used as a Preposition, and three with the same word used as a Conjunction. EXERCISE 149. §§ 287-289. Alter the arrangement of the following sentences so as to bring the Prepositions to the end. 1. The letter-case was quickly known to belong to Mr. Burchell, with whom it had been seen. 2. A feast was provided for our reception, to which we at once sat down. 3. The little republic to which I gave laws was regulated in the following manner. 4. He gave Tom a box in which to keep his tools, and a purse in which to keep his money, when he got any. 5. Whence comest thou? 6. Whereof art thou compounded? 7. Of what is brass made? 8. We were the happiest family on which the sun ever shone. 9. From what does this proceed? 10. This is the famous digging from which the monster nugget was obtained. EXERCISE 150. (Same continued.) Alter the arrangement of the following sentences so as to bring the Prepositions before the Pronouns which they govern. 1. What country comest thou from? 2. It is hard to be without a single person to talk to. 3. You know not whom you sit beside. 4. The labour we delight in physics pain. 5. The year Napoleon was born in was also the birth year of Wellington. 6. This was somewhat difficult to accomplish in the posture I then lay in. 7. What port are you bound for? 8. The shore we hope to land on only by report is known. 9. The subjects which I shall have to touch on are as interesting as they are varied. 10. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in. 11. Here are principles to live by, here are hopes to die with! 12. You have now heard the principles which Mr. Hastings governs British India upon you have heard who the persons were whose authority he relies on. EXERCISE 151. § 290. Break up the following complex sentences and paragraphs into simple sentences, beginning each simple sentence with a new line. 1. These resolute men feared neither the rage of ocean, nor the hardships of uncivilized life, neither the fangs of savage beasts, nor the tomahawks of more savage men. 2. All crimes shall cease, and ancient frauds shall fail, Peace o'er the world her olive-wand extend, And white-robed Innocence from heaven descend. 3. As the ears of Isaac received the hopes of escape, which this speech intimated, he began gradually, and inch by inch as it were, to raise himself up from the ground, until he fairly rested upon his knees. 4. The clouds still rested on one half of the tide, insomuch that I could discern nothing in it: but the other appeared to me a vast ocean, planted with innumerable islands that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining scas that ran among them. 5. These are the mansions of good men after death, who, according to the degrees and kinds of virtue in which they excelled, are distributed among these several islands, which abound with pleasures of different kinds and degrees, suitable to the relishes and perfections of those who are settled on them: so that every island is a paradise accommodated to its respective inhabitants. EXERCISE 152. § 291. (1.) Correct or justify the following sentences, giving your reason in each case :— 1. Amongst all the champions there was none so doughty as he. 2. Thinkest thou that thou art wiser than me? 3. I think quite as highly of his brother as he. 4. This is good enough for such as him. 5. I would see all men such as thee! (2.) Point out what part of speech the word but is in each of the following sentences. 1. The man is good but not wise. 2. Speak but the word and thousands are ready. 3. This is nothing but the merest jealousy. 4. I cannot but hope well of one whose impulses are so generous. 5. Heaven forbid but I should still be true to him. 6. There is no man but hates me. 7. There's ne'er a villain dwelling in all Denmark, but. he's an arrant knave. 8. It cannot be but I am pigeon-livered (i. e. fainthearted). MISCELLANEOUS EXERCISES IN SYNTAX. Correct or justify the following expressions, giving in each case a reason for your decision. 1. Who's it for, eh? (D.) 2. One and another has made his bed and so must he lie on it. (Th.) 3. No one was to blame but me. (Th.) 4. There was only three of us to-day. (Th.) 5. Dreams are instances of that agility and perfection which is natural to the faculties. (Sp.) 6. In relation to a fortune which they are never likely to come at. (Sp.) 7. When folly or superstition strike in. (Sp.) 8. In proportion as either of these qualities are wanting. 9. Half a million human beings was crowded into that labyrinth. (Ma.) 10. Where nothing save the waves and I EXERCISE 154. (Same continued.) 1. There are so many gratifications attend this public sort of obscurity. (Sp.) 2. All that stood at that bar, save him alone, are gone. (Ma.) 3. He has an uncle will leave him some thousands. (Sp.) 4. Let her as well as I, taste of the tortures. (Sc.) 5. The question is whether any one or all of these symptoms suffices. 6. They were all younger than her. 7. Sparta hath many a worthier son than he. (B.) 8. A diamond necklace, with pendants of inestimable value, were by this means made more conspicuous. (Sc.) 9. But Ferdinand did not do this, and hence has arisen boundless calamities to his country. (4.) 10. Of such who, he observed, were good at heart. (Sp.) EXERCISE 155. (Same continued.) ... 1. Not upon such as thou. (Sc.) 2. When I consider how each of the professions are crowded... (Sp.) 3. If it were me, I would accept 4. Having arose... (Sp.) 5. Having drove (Sp.) 6. Neither he nor his brother smoke. 7. It is not for such as we to sit with the princes of the land. (Sc.) 8. Me and George should not part in anger. (Th.) 9. Oh, a cherubim thou wast that did preserve me! (S.) 10. Why should all the world be happy but me? 11. About 4 A.M., I felt rather chilly, and got up and put on an overcoat, and then laid down on the car seat. 12. The splendour of the furniture, the decorations and the pictures, were perfectly dazzling. EXERCISE 156. (Same continued.) 1. At last there remained only Godfrey and me. 2. Corrupting each their way. (M.) 3. Which is thinnest, thine or mine? (T.) 4. Let boys play tricks and kick the straw, not I. (G.) 5. There's no man more independent than me. (G.E.) 6. In our extremest fit. (K.) The very chiefest apostles. (E.V.) 7. There are always a set of worthy • (S.S.) 8. A protestant panel may conduct themselves... (S.S.) 9. The battle of Eylau should have been the signal for the contracting the closest alliance with the Russian government. (A.) 10. Whose God is strongest, thine or mine? (M.) men... 1. EXERCISE 157. (Same continued.) My robe and mine integrity to heaven 2. The congregation were dispersing. 3. The system and organization of the ring is virtually unknown. 4. Where the Saxons were in the habit of going. (D.) 5. Let you and I pray that it may animate our English hearts. (D.) 6. Rapine of every kind were the privileges of the feudal lords. (D.) 7. I prefer dying rather than to save my life by a mortal sin. 8. Neither my father nor my brother were then in Westmorland. (Br.) 9. In consequence of the spite and unfairness that runs through them. (id.) 10. His firmness and decision was derived from his mother. 1. EXERCISE 158. (Same continued.) Such, and no less is he On whom depend the sum of things. (Dr.) 2. In saying “ay" or "no" the safety of our country and the sum of our well-being lies. 3. It is the only sect that have never persecuted. (Br.) 4. To this lady he presented David as his mother. (D.) 5. Are |