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GRAMMATICAL FALLACIES.

REM.-Let the Pupil correct the errors in the fol and give the authority for every criticism, by a pr RULE 2, or to NOTES and OBSERVATIONS under the RULE.

1 "The rapidity of his movements were beyond exa 2. "The mechanism of clocks and watches were totall

8. "The Past Tense of these Verbs are very indefinit time."-Bullion's Grammar, p. 31.

4. "Everybody are very kind to her."-Byron. 5. "To study mathematics, require maturity of mind." 6. "That they were foreigners, were apparent in their 7. "Coleridge the poet and philosopher have many ad 8. "No monstrous height, or length or breadth appear 9. "Common sense, as well as piety, tell us these are

10. "Wisdom or folly govern us."-Fisk's Grammar. 11. "Nor want nor cold his course delay."-Johnson. 12. "Hence naturally arise indifference or aversion be ties."-Brown's Estimates.

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13. Wisdom, and not wealth, procure esteem."-lb. 14. No company likes to confess that they are ignoran

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15. "The people rejoices in that which should cause sorr 16. "Therein consists the force and use and nature of lang 17. "From him proceeds power, sanctification, truth, gi other blessing we can conceive."-Calvin.

18. "How is the Gender and Number of the Relative kn Bullion's P

19. "Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing."-Milton. 20. "The Syntax and Etymology of the language is thus the learner."-Bullion's Grammar.

21. "In France the peasantry goes barefoot, and the midd use of wooden shoes."-Harvey.

22. "While all our youth prefers her to the rest."- Waller 23. A great majority of our authors is defective in manne 24. "Neither the intellect nor the heart are capable of bei

25. Nor he nor I are capable of harboring a thought against your peace."- Walpole.

26. "Neither riches nor fame render a man happy."--Day's Grammar. 27. "I or thou art the person who must undertake the business."-Murray. 28. "The quarrels of lovers is a renewal of love."

29. "Two or more sentences united together, is called a compound sentence."-Day's Grammar.

30. "If I was a Greek, I should resist Turkish despotism.”

Cardell's Grammar. 31. "I can not say that I admire this construction, though it be much used."-Priestly's Grammar, p. 172.

32. "It was observed in Chap. iii. that the disjunctive or had a double use."-Churchill's Grammar.

33. "I observed that love constituted the whole character of God."

Dwight. 34. "A stranger to the poem would not easily discover that this was verse."-Murray.

35. "Had I commanded you to have done this, you would thought hard of it."-J. Brown.

36. “I found him better than I expected to have found him.”

Priestly's Grammar.

37. "There are several faults which I intended to have enumerated."

38. "An effort is making to abolish the law."

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Webster.

39. 'The Spartan admiral was sailed to the Hellespont."-Goldsmith. 40. "So soon as he was landed, the multitude thronged about him."-1b

41. "Which they neither have nor can do."-Barclay.

42. "For you have but mistook me all the while."--Shakspeare.

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43. 'Who would not have let them appeared."-Steele.

44. "You were chose probationer."-Spectator.

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45. Had I known the character of the lecture, I would not have went."

46. "They don't ought to do it."- Watkins.

47. "Had I ought to place 'wise' in Predicate with 'makes'?-Pupil.

48. "Whom they had sat at defiance.”—Bolingbroke.

49. “Whereunto the righteous fly and are safe.”—Barclay.

50. "She sets as a prototype, for exact imitation."—Rash.

REM.-After correcting the above examples, the Pupil should analyze and parse them-using the MODEL given on p. 204-5, or that on p. 183-4.

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III. The Object of a Sentence

RULE 3. The Object of an action or r

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EXAMPLES. 1. "Virtue secures happiness."

2. Mary and Anna are writing letters.
3. "Him from my childhood I have kn
4. Them that honor me, I will honor."

OBS. 1.-The Object of a Sentence may be-
1. A Noun......"Now twilight lets her curtain

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OBS. 2.-The forms of Nouns do not distinguish the from the Nominative or Subjective.

The Personal Pronouns and the Relative and the In are the only Substantive Words that distinguish the forms. (See Declension of Pronouns, page 89.)-Hence,

OBS. 3.-In constructing Sentences, special attention giving to the Object of a Sentence its appropriate positio POSITION OF THE OBJECT.

NOTE.-In position, the Object of a Sentenc follows the Predicate.

EXAMPLES.-1. "Virtue SECURES happiness."

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EXCEPTION 1.-By the poets and for rhetorical effect, the Object is often placed before the Predicate.

EXAMPLES.-1. "Him, from my childhood, I HAVE KNOWN.'

2. "New ills that latter stage AWAIT."

3. "And all the air a solemn stillness HOLDS."

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EXCEPTION 2.-A Relative Pronoun, being the Object of a Sentence, is placed before its Predicate.

EXAMPLES.-1. "The evil which he FEARED, has come upon him." 2. "Mount the horse which I HAVE CHOSEN for you."

3. "We serve a Monarch whom we LOVE,—

A God whom we adore."

TWO OR MORE OBJECTS.

OBS. 4.-A Sentence may have two or more Objects when they are connected in construction by Conjunctions, expressed or implied. EXAMPLES.-1. "God CREATED the heaven and the earth."

2. 'Now twilight LETS her curtain down,

And PINS it with a star."

"For the Angel of Death SPREAD his wings on the blast, And BREATHED in the face of the foe as he passed."

REMARK.-These are Compound Sentences. In Sentence (1), "heaven" and "earth" are Objects of the same Verb, "created." In Sentence (2), "curtain" is the Object of "lets," and "it" is the Object of "pins.” Sentence (3) is also Compound; yet it has but one Object, "breathed" being Intransitive.

OBS. 5.-The Objects of a Compound Sentence sometimes consist of different Words, indicating the same being or thing.

EXAMPLES.-1. "By this dispensation, we HAVE LOST a neighbor, ə friend, a brother."

2. "Thus she addressed the Father of gods, and King of

men."

OBS. 6. But one Word used to limit the signification of another, cannot be in the same construction; and hence, the two Words are not Objects of the same Verb, unless they are compounded and parsed as one Element.

EXAMPLES.-1. "We visited NAPLES, the home of our childhood."

2. Have you seen COLERIDGE, the philosopher and poet ? 3. And must I leave thee, Paradise!"

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REM.-"Home" is a un, used to describe " Adjective, but as an equivalent name of the same pla Philosopher" and "poet" are Substantive appell "Coleridge."

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"Paradise" limits the application of the word "th (See "Logical Adjuncts" and "Independent Case,"

OBS. 7.-The Verbs appoint, call, choose, constitute make, name, and proclaim, sometimes have two Object

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2. The State Society elected Rice PRESI 3. And chose Valentine SECRETARY.

REM.-In Example (1), "him" is the direct ObjectObject; and is, logically considered, a part of the acquired by the action expressed by the Verb. The V do not, in such examples, express the full Predicate, no that can, unless, perhaps, in the following example:"They dubbed him KNIGHT."

Equivalent. "They KNIGHTED him."

OBS. 8.-A Verb which, in the Active Voice, is follo and a remote object, retains the remote object as a par Predicate.

EXAMPLES.-1. He is named John.

2. Rice was elected President.

REM. This construction is analogous to that of Subst cate with a Neuter Verb.

Thou art Peter-He is John.

Thou art-what?--Peter. He is what?-named Jo "Peter" completes the Predicate; the words "named the Predicate.

OBS. 9.-The construction noticed in Obs. 7 should b tinguished from that in which a Verb is followed by tw of the Verb and the other of a Preposition suppressed. EXAMPLE. "They carried the child home."

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