, powerfully, solemnly.

4. Insert suitable conjunctions in place of the following dashes:
Love--fidelity are inseparable. Be shy of parties--factions. Do well--boast
not. Improve time--it flies. There would be few paupers--no time were lost.
Be not proud--thou art human. I saw--it was necessary. Wisdom is
better--wealth. Neither he--I can do it. Wisdom--folly governs us. Take
care--thou fall. Though I should boast--am I nothing.

5. Insert suitable prepositions in place of the following dashes:
Plead--the dumb. Qualify thyself--action--study. Think often--the
worth--time. Live--peace--all men. Keep--compass. Jest not--serious
subjects. Take no part--slander. Guilt starts--its own shadow. Grudge
not--giving. Go not--sleep--malice. Debate not--temptation. Depend not--the
stores--others. Contend not--trifles. Many fall--grasping--things--their
reach. Be deaf--detraction.

6. Correct the following sentences, and adapt the interjections to the
emotions expressed by the other words: Aha! aha! I am undone. Hey! io! I am
tired. Ho! be still. Avaunt! this way. Ah! what nonsense. Heigh-ho! I am
delighted. Hist! it is contemptible. Oh! for that sympathetic glow! Ah!
what withering phantoms glare!

PART III.

SYNTAX.

Syntax treats of the relation, agreement, government, and arrangement, of
words in sentences. The _relation_ of words is their reference to other
words, or their dependence according to the sense.

The _agreement_ of words is their similarity in person, number, gender,
case, mood, tense, or form.

The _government_ of words is that power which one word has over an other,
to cause it to assume some particular modification.

The _arrangement_ of words is their collocation, or relative position, in a
sentence.

CHAPTER I.--SENTENCES.

A _Sentence_ is an assemblage of words, making complete sense, and always
containing a nominative and a verb; as, "Reward sweetens labour."

The _principal parts_ of a sentence are usually three; namely, the SUBJECT,
or nominative,--the attribute, or finite VERB,--and the case put after, or
the OBJECT[322] governed by the verb: as, "_Crimes deserve punishment_."

The _other_ or _subordinate parts_ depend upon these, either as primary or
as secondary _adjuncts_; as, "_High_ crimes _justly_ deserve _very severe_
punishments."

Sentences are usually said to be of two kinds, _simple_ and
_compound_.[323]

A _simple sentence_ is a sentence which consists of one s