pect that
it will abound more with connective particles."--_Ib._, p. 85. "Mr.
Greenleaf's book is by far the best adapted for learners of any that has
yet appeared on the subject."--DR. FELTUS and BP. ONDERDONK: _Greenleaf's
Gram._, p. 2. "Punctuation is the art of marking in writing the several
pauses, or rests, between sentences, and the parts of sentences, according
to their proper quantity or proportion, as they are expressed in a just and
accurate pronunciation."--_Lowth's Gram._, p. 114. "A compound sentence
must be resolved into simple ones, and separated by commas."--_Greenleaf's
Gram._, p. 41; _Allen Fisk's_, 155.[452] "Simple sentences should be
separated from each other by commas, unless such sentences are connected by
a conjunction: as, 'Youth is passing away, age is approaching and death is
near.'"--_Hall's Gram._, p. 36. "_V_ has the sound of flat _f_, and bears
the same relation to it, as _b_ does to _p, d_ to _t_, hard _g_ to _k_, and
_z_ to _s_. It has one uniform sound."--_Murray's Gram._, p. 17; _Fisk's_,
42. "_V_ is flat _f_, and bears the same relation to it as _b_ does to _p,
d_ to _t_, hard _g_ to _k_, and _z_ to _s_. It is never
irregular."--_Walker's Dict._, p. 52. "_V_ has the sound of flat _f_; and
bears the same relation to it as _z_ does to _s_. It has one uniform
sound."--_Greenleaf's Gram._, p. 20. "The author is explaining the
distinction, between the powers of sense and imagination in the human
mind."--_Murray's Gram._, 8vo, Vol. i, p. 343. [The author is endeavouring]
"to explain a very abstract point, the distinction between the powers of
sense and imagination in the human mind."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 164. "HE
(Anglo-Saxon _he_) is a Personal pronoun, of the Third Person, Masculine
Gender (Decline he), of the singular number, in the nominative
case."--_Fowler's E. Gram._, 8vo, 1850, Sec.589.

FALSE SYNTAX UNDER THE CRITICAL NOTES.

UNDER CRITICAL NOTE I.--OF THE PARTS OF SPEECH.

"The passive voice denotes a being acted upon."--_Maunders Gram._, p. 6.

[FORMULE.--Not proper, because the term "_being acted upon_" as here used,
suggests a doubt concerning its classification in parsing. But, according
to Critical Note 1st, "Words that may constitute different parts of speech,
must not be left doubtful as to their classification, or to what part of
speech they belong." Therefore, the phraseology should be altered; thus,
"The passive voice denotes _an action received_." Or; "The passive