you _get_, endeavor to save something; and with all your
_getting, get_ wisdom:" carefully avoid saying _git_ for _get_, and
_gitting_ for _getting_.

397. "So intent was he on the song he was _singing_, while he stood by the
fire, that he did not perceive that his clothes were _singeing_." Verbs
ending with a _single e_, omit the _e_ when the termination _ing_ is
added, as, _give_, _giving_; in _singeing_, however, the _e_ must be
retained, to prevent its being confounded with _singing_. The _e_ must
also be retained in _dyeing_, to distinguish it from _dying_.

398. The following sentences may be studied: "The _dyer dyes_ daily, yet
he _dies_ not." "The _miner minds_ the _minor mines_." "It is not _meet_
to _mete_ out such _meat_." "He performed a great _feat_ with his _feet_
at the _fete_." (_Fete_ is pronounced _fate_.)

399. "_Lower_ the sails, as the sky begins to _lower_:" pronounce _low_ in
the _former_ so as to rhyme with _mow_, and _low_ in the _latter_ so as to
rhyme with _cow_.

400. "There was a great _row_ on Monday, in Tryon _Row_:" pronounce the
former _row_ so as to rhyme with _cow_--the latter _row_, so as to rhyme
with _mo_.

401. "His _surname_ is Clifford:" never spell the _sur_ in "surname"
_sir_, which shows an ignorance of its true derivation, which is from the
Latin.

402. "The buildings are so old that they pay _almost no rent_ now:"
_scarcely any rent_, is better.

403. "His _mamma_ sent him to a preparatory school:" _mamma_ is often
written with one _m_ only, which is not, as may at first be supposed, in
imitation of the French _maman_, but in sheer ignorance.

404. Active verbs often take a neuter sense; as, "_The house is
building_:" here, _is building_ is used in a neuter signification, because
it has no object after it. By this rule are explained such sentences as,
"_Application is wanting_;" "_The Grammar is printing_," &c.

405. "He _attackted_ me without the slightest provocation:" say,
_attacked_.

406. "I called on him every day in the week _successfully_:" very common,
but incorrect; say, _successively_.

407. "I fear I shall _discommode_ you:" it is better to say, _incommode_.

408. "I can do it _equally as well as_ he:" leave out _equally_, which is
superfluous.

409. "We could not forbear _from_ doing it:" leave out _from_, which is
unnecessary; or say, _refrain from_.

410. "He was totally dependent _of_ his father:" say, dependent _on_ his
father.

411. "The