s in a sentence."--_Merchant's Gram._,
p. 99. "The prefix _to_ is generally placed before verbs in the infinitive
mood, but before the following verbs it is properly omitted; (viz.) _bid,
make, see, dare, need, hear, feel_, and _let_; as, He _bid_ me _do_ it; He
_made_ me _learn_; &c."--_Ib., Stereotype Edition_, p. 91; _Old Edition_,
85. "The infinitive sometimes follows _than_, after a comparison; as, I
wish nothing more, _than to know_ his fate."--_Ib._, p. 92. See _Murray's
Gram._, 8vo, i, 184. "Or by prefixing the adverbs _more_ or _less_, in the
comparative, and _most_ or _least_, in the superlative."--_Merchant's
Gram._, p. 36. "A pronoun is a word used instead of a noun."--_Ib._, p. 17;
_Comly_, 15. "In monosyllables the Comparative is regularly formed by
adding _r_ or _er_."--_Perley's Gram._, p. 21. "He has particularly named
these, in distinction to others."--_Harris's Hermes_, p. vi. "To revive the
decaying taste of antient Literature."--_Ib._, p. xv. "He found the
greatest difficulty of writing."--HUME: _in Priestley's Gram._, p. 159.

"And the tear that is wip'd with a little address
May be followed perhaps with a smile."
_Webster's American Spelling-Book_, p. 78;
and _Murray's E. Reader_, p. 212.

CHAPTER XI--INTERJECTIONS.

An Interjection is a word that is uttered merely to indicate some strong or
sudden emotion of the mind: as, _Oh! alas! ah! poh! pshaw! avaunt! aha!
hurrah!_

OBSERVATIONS.

OBS. 1.--Of pure interjections but few are admitted into books.
Unimpassioned writings reject this part of speech altogether. As words or
sounds of this kind serve rather to indicate feeling than to express
thought, they seldom have any definable signification. Their use also is so
variable, that there can be no very accurate classification of them. Some
significant words, perhaps more properly belonging to other classes, are
sometimes ranked with interjections, when uttered with emotion and in an
unconnected manner; as, _strange! prodigious! indeed!_ Wells says, "_Other
parts of speech_, used by way of exclamation, are _properly regarded as
interjections_; as, _hark! surprising! mercy!_"--_School Gram._, 1846, p.
110. This is an evident absurdity; because it directly confounds the
classes which it speaks of as being different. Nor is it right to say,
"_Other parts of speech_ are frequently used _to perform the office_ of
interjections."--_Wells_, 1850, p. 120.

OBS. 2.--The