APPENDIX IV.

A KEY

TO THE

EXAMPLES OF FALSE SYNTAX.

This is a hard saying.

Rule 1.-Articles.

NOTE I.

Passing from an earthly to a heavenly diadem.
Few have the happiness of living with such a one.
She evinced a uniform adherence to the truth.

This is truly a wonderful invention.

He is a younger man than we supposed.
A humorsome child is never long pleased.
Your friend is an honorable man.

The elephant is an herbivorous animal.

NOTE II.

Avoid rude sports; an eye is soon lost, or a bone broken.
As the drop of the bucket, and the dust of the balance.
Not a word was uttered, nor a sign given.

I despise not the doer, but the deed.

Crime consists not in the act, but in the motive.

NOTE III.

What is the difference between the old and the new method? The sixth and the tenth have a close resemblance.

Is Paris on the right hand, or the left?

Does Peru join the Atlantic, or the Pacific ocean?

He was influenced both by a just and a generous principle.
The book was read by the old and the young.

I have both the large and the small grammar.
Are both the north and the south line measured?
Are the north line and the south both measured?
Are both the north and the south lines measured?
Are both the north lines and the south measured ?

NOTE IV.

Is the north and south line measured ?

Are the two north and south lines both measured?
A great and good man looks beyond time.

They made but a weak and ineffectual resistance.
The Alleghany and Monongahela rivers form the Ohio.
I rejoice that there is another and better world.
Were God to raise up another such man as Moss.
The light and worthless kernels will float.

Cleon was another sort of man.

NOTE V.

There is a species of animal called seal.
Let us wait in patience and quietness.
The contemplative mind delights in silence.
Arithmetic is a branch of mathematics.
You will never have another such chance.
I expected some such answer.

And I persecuted this way unto death.

NOTE VI.

He is entitled to the appellation of gentleman.
Cromwell assumed the title of Protector.

Her father is honored with the title of Earl.

The chief magistrate is styled President.

The highest title in the State is that of Governor.

Oak, pine, and ash, are names of whole classes of objects.

NOTE VII.

He is a better writer than reader.

He was an abler mathematician than linguist.

I should rather have an orange than an apple.

NOTE VIII.

The words (or, those words) which are signs of complex ideas, are liable to be misunderstood.

The carriages which were formerly in use were very clumsy.

The place is not mentioned by the geographers who wrote at that time.

NOTE IX.

Means are always necessary to the accomplishing of ends.

By the seeing of the eye, and the hearing of the ear, learn wisdom.
In the keeping of his commandments, there is great reward.

For the revealing of a secret, there is no remedy.

Have you no repugnance to the torturing of animals?

NOTE X.

By breaking the law, you dishonor the lawgiver.
An argument so weak is not worth mentioning.
In letting go our hope, we let all go.
Avoid talking too much of your ancestors.
The cuckoo keeps repeating her unvaried notes.
Forbear boasting of what you can do.

PROMISCUOUS.

The path of truth is a plain and safe one.
This statement is merely an hypothesis.
There was a harshness in his words.

Neither the rules nor the examples are correct.
He fully deserved the name of traitor.

He is a more effective writer than speaker.
What sort of animal is an oyster ?

She was carrying a ewer of water.

He was busy in translating a French work.

This passage has another and different meaning.

It showed what kind of man he was.

What is the cost of an hour-glass?

Is there any difference between the upper and the lower side?
The travelers who visited the country were put to death.

Rule II.-Adjectives.

NOTE I.

Things of this sort are easily understood.

Who broke those tongs?

Where did I drop these scissors ?

Bring out those oats.

Extinguish those embers.

I disregard these minutiæ.

That kind of injuries we need not fear.

What was the height of that gallows which Haman erected?

NOTE II.

We rode about ten miles an hour.

'Tis for a thousand pounds.

How deep is the water? About six fathoms.

The lot is twenty-five feet wide.

I have bought eight loads of wood.

NOTES III. AND IV.

Two negatives, in English, destroy each other.
That the heathens tolerated one another, is allowed.
David and Jonathan loved each other tenderly.

Words are derived one from another in various ways.

Or better: Deri

vative words are formed from their primitives in various ways.

Teachers like to see their pupils polite to one another.

The Graces always hold one another by the hand.

He chose the last of these three.

Trisyllables are often accented on the first syllable.

Which are the two most remarkable isthmuses in the world?

NOTES V. AND VI.

The Scriptures are more valuable than any other writings.

The Russian empire is more extensive than any other government in the

world.

Israel loved Joseph more than all his other children, because he was the

son of his old age.

Of all ill habits idleness is the most incorrigible.

Eve was the fairest of women.

Hope is the most constant of all the passions.

NOTE VII.

That opinion is too general (or common) to be easily corrected.
Virtue confers the greatest (or highest) dignity upon man.

How much better are ye than the fowls!

Do not thou hasten above the Most High.
This was the unkindest cut of all.

The waters are frozen sooner and harder.

A healthier (or more healthy) place cannot be found.

The best and the wisest men often meet with discouragements.

NOTE VIII.

He showed us an easier and more agreeable way.
This was the plainest and most convincing argument.
Some of the wisest and most moderate of the senators.
This is an ancient and honorable fraternity.

There vice shall meet a fatal and irrevocable doom.

NOTE IX.

He is an industrious young man.

She has an elegant new house.

The first two classes have read.

The two oldest sons have removed to the westward.
England had not seen another such king.

NOTE X.

She reads well and writes neatly.

He was extremely prodigal.

They went, conformably to their engagement.
He speaks very fluently, and reasons justly.
The deepest streams run the most silently.
These appear to be finished the most neatly.
He was scarcely gone when you arrived.

I am exceedingly sorry to hear of your misfortunes.
The work was uncommonly well executed.
This is not so large a cargo as the last.

Thou knowest how good a horse mine is.

I cannot think so meanly of him.

He acted much more wisely than the others.

NOTE XI.

I bought those books at a very low price.

Go and tell those boys to be still.

I have several copies; thou art welcome to those two.
Which of those three men is the most useful?

NOTE XII.

Hope is as strong an incentive to action as fear; that is the anticipation of good, this of evil.

The poor want some advantages which the rich enjoy; but we should not therefore account these happy, and those miserable.

Memory and forecast just returns engage,

That pointing back to youth, this on to age.-Pope.

NOTE XIII.

Let each of them be heard in his turn.

On the Lord's day, every one of us Christians keeps the sabbath.
Is either of these men known?

No; neither of them has any connections here.

NOTE XIV.

Did any of the company stop to assist you?
Here are six; but none of them will answer.

NOTE XV.

Some crimes are thought deserving of death.

Rudeness of speech is very unbecoming to [or, in] a gentleman.
To eat with unwashed hands was disgusting to a Jew.

Leave then thy joys, unsuiting to such age--or,
Leave then thy joys, not suiting such an age,
To a fresh comer, and resign the stage.

PROMISCUOUS.

William is brighter than any of the other pupils.

Any of those four boys is trustworthy.

Bears of this kind are hard to tame.

The house is about twenty feet wide.

These two sisters are very fond of each other.

The last of those three pictures is the prettiest, but none of them please!

me.

Of all ill habits that is the worst.

Let the first three pupils in the class rise.
Will you have a luscious ripe peach?

I cannot carry those books now.

What an exceedingly bad cold you have!

Try to get well as quickly as you can.

Rule III.-Adverbs.

NOTE I.

The work will never be completed.

We should always prefer our duty to our pleasure
It is impossible to be continually at work.

He behaved impertinently to his master.

The heavenly bodies are perpetually in motion.

He found her not only busy, but even pleased and happy.
The man discharged only his duty.