3. The people of this country possess a healthy climate and F. S.

soil.

1. The more I see of his conduct, I like him better. F. S. 2. The gay and the pleasing are sometimes the most insidi ous and the most dangerous companions. F. S.

ELLIPSIS OF THE PRONOUN.

1. I gladly shunned who gladly fled from me. F. S. 2. His reputation and his estate were both lost by gaming. F. S.

3. In the circumstances I was at that time, my troubles pressed heavily on me. F. S.

1. The sacrifices of virtue will not only be rewarded hereafter, but recompensed even in this life. F. S.

2. Genuine virtue supposes our benevolence to be strengthened and to be confirmed by principle. F. S.

3. All those possessed of any office resigned their former commission. F. S.

ELLIPSIS OF THE ADVER B.

1. The temper of him who is always in the bustle of the world will be often ruffled and often disturbed. F. S.

2. We often commend imprudently as well as censure im prudently. F. S.

ELLIPSIS OF THE PREPOSITION.

1. Censure is a tax which a man pays the public for being eminent. F. S.

2. Reflect on the state of human life, and the society of men as mixed with good and with evil. F. S.

ELLIPSIS OF THE CONJUNCTION.

1. No rank, station, dignity of birth, possessions, exempt men

from contributing their share to public utility. F. S.

2. Destitute of principle, he regarded neither his family, nor his friends, nor his reputation. F. S.

PROMISCUOUS EXAMPLES

OF FALSE SYNTAX.

The pupil is expected to make the corrections and give the Rules.

1. Neither death nor torture were sufficient to subdue the minds of Cargill and his intrepid followers.

2. Out of my doors, you wretch! you hag!-Merry Wives of Windsor. Supply the ellipsis.

3. Believe me, the providence of God has established such an order in the world, that, of all that belongs to us, the least valuable parts can alone fall under the will of others.-BOLINGBROKE. What word will you substitute for alone, and where in the sentence will you place it?

4. The earth is so samely, that your eyes turn toward heaven-toward heaven, I mean, in the sense of sky. Give the rule for forming adverbs from adjectives.

5.

We must not make a scarecrow of the law,

Setting it up to fear the birds of prey.-SHAKSPEARE.

I were flayed of flaying them=I was afraid of frightening them. To fear, in the first example, and flaying, in the last, which is provincial, are examples of verbs used in a causative sense.

6. From what we can learn, it is probable that apples will be so plenty the coming fall, that the inferior sorts will not be gathered at all. What word will you substitute for plenty,

and why?

7. He that cometh unto me I will in no wise cast out.

8. He is always master of the subject, and seems to play himself with it.

9. We enter, as it were, into his body, and become in some measure him.

10.

One more unfortunate,

Weary of breath;

Rashly importunate,

Gone to her death.-Hoon. Supply the ellipses.

11. Passengers are forbidden standing on the platform of the

cars.

How is standing parsed?

12. There are but few that know how to conduct them under vehement affections of any kind.-President EDWARDS. What will you substitute for them?

13. It is more than a twelvemonth since an evening lecture Name the section in which such ex

was set up in this town.

pressions as twelvemonth are mentioned?

14. Either, said I, you did not know the way well, or you did; if the former, it was dishonest in you to undertake to guide me; if the latter, you have willfully led me miles out of my way.-W. COBBETT. How do you parse former and latter?

15. You are a much greater loser than me by his death. 16. Christ, and him crucified, is the head, and the only head. of the Church.

17. I do not suppose that we Britons want genius more than the rest of our neighbors.

18. The first proposal was entirely different and inferior to the second.

19. Read, for instance, Junius' address, commonly called his letter to the king.

20. To the happiness of possessing a person of such uncommon merit, Charles soon had the satisfaction of obtaining the highest honor his country could bestow. Soon united the satisfaction, &c.

21. The book is printed very neat, and on fine wove paper 22. He is the man I want. 23. Whom he would he slew.

24.

What ellipsis is here?

How do you parse whom?

Forthwith on all sides to his aid, was run
By angels many and strong.-Paradise Lost, 6.

How do you parse was run? Is it used impersonally?

25. The youth and inexperience of the prince, he was only fifteen years of age, declined a perilous encounter. Is he not used instead of the relative? In old writers, he, she, and it are used instead of relatives.

26. Who would have thought of your presiding at the meeting. 27. There is a house to let in the next street. See § 511. 28. If I open my eyes on the light, I can not choose but see. What is there that is peculiar in this sentence?

29. The spread of education set the people a thinking and reasoning. How do you parse a?

30. What is religion? Not a foreign inhabitant, not something alien in its nature, which comes and takes up its abode in

R R

the soul. It is the soul itself lifting itself up to its Maker.—W. E. CHANNING. Supply the ellipsis.

31. Out of debt, out of danger.

Supply the ellipsis.

32. I thought to have heard the noble lord produce something like proof.

33. I have, therefore, given a place to what may not be useless to them whose chief ambition is to please. They stands for a noun already introduced; those, on the contrary, stands for a noun not previously introduced; them, in this example, is used improperly.

34. My purpose was, after ten months' more spent in commerce, to have withdrawn my wealth to a safer country.

35. I have heard how some critics have been pacified with claret and a supper, and others laid asleep with the soft notes of flattery.

36. They that are truly good must be happy.

37. He was more bold and active, but not so wise and studious as his companion.

38. The greatest masters of critical learning differ among one

another.

39.

She mounts her chariot in a trice,
Nor would he stay for no advice,
Until her maids, that were so nice,

To wait on her were fitted.-DRAYTON.

40. Thank you; beseech you; pray you; cry you mercy; would it were so; whither art going? Supply the ellipsis in each case.

41.

Seest how brag yon bullock bears;

So smirk, so smooth its pricked ears.-SPENSER.

Supply the ellipsis.

42. The train of our ideas are often interrupted.

Is there a God to swear by, and is there none to believe in, none to trust to? This is barely allowable.

43. Mr. such an one was strongly opposed to the measure. 44. The sense of the feeling can indeed give us the idea of extension.

45.

And though, by Heaven's severe decree,
She suffers hourly more than me.

46. The chief ruler is styled a president.

47.

Let he that looks after them look on his hand;

And if there is blood on't, he's one of their band.-SCOTT.

48. No one messmate of the round table was, than him, more fraught with manliness and beauty.

49.

The winter's wind,

Which, when it bites and blows upon my body
Even till I shrink with cold, I smile and say,
This is no flattery.

50.

Anger is like

A full hot horse, who, being allowed his way,
Self mettle tires him.-Henry VIII., i.

How do you parse which and who in the last two passages?
Are they in the nominative absolute?

51.

Who riseth from a feast
With that keen appetite that he sits down?

Merchant of Venice. How is the second that parsed? Is it in the nominative absolute?

52. False prophets which come to you in sheeps' clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.-Matt., xiii., 21.

53. "There's I." "There's you." Which is the subject and which the predicate in these two examples?

54. There's two or three of us have seen strange sights. Which is the subject?

55.

Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy,

Yet with a pleasing sorcery could charm.-Par. Lost, ii., 565.

What is nominative to could charm?

56.

The milk-maid singeth blithe,

And the shepherd whets his scythe.-MILTON.

57. Their idleness, as well as the large societies which they form, incline them to pleasure and gallantry.

58. King James the First was seized with a tertian ague, which, when his courtiers assured him, from the proverb, that it was health for a king, he replied that the proverb was meant for a young king. How do you parse which?

59. To be humane, candid, and generous, are in every case very high degrees of merit.

60.

Nor have I, like an heir unknown,

Seized upon Attalus his throne.

61. I have read the Emperor's Charles the Fifth's life.