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p. 296. "Neither the King _nor_ Queen are gone."--_Buchanan's E. Syntax_, p. 155. "_Many_ is pronounced as if it were wrote _manny_."--_Dr. Johnson's Gram., with Dict._, p. 2. "And as the music on the waters float, Some bolder shore returns the soften'd note." --_Crabbe, Borough_, p. 118. EXERCISE XIV.--THREE ERRORS. "It appears that the Temple was then a building, because these Tiles must be supposed to be for the covering it."--_Johnson's Gram. Com._, p. 281. "It was common for sheriffs to omit or excuse the not making returns for several of the boroughs within their counties."--_Brown's Estimate_, Vol. ii, p. 132. "The conjunction _as_ when it is connected with the pronoun, such, many, or same, is sometimes called a relative pronoun."--_Kirkham's Gram., the Compend_. "Mr. Addison has also much harmony in his style; more easy and smooth, but less varied than Lord Shaftesbury."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 127; _Jamieson's_, 129. "A number of uniform lines having all the same pause, are extremely fatiguing; which is remarkable in French versification."--_Kames, El. of Crit._, Vol. ii, p. 104. "Adjectives qualify or distinguish one noun from another."--_Fowle's True Eng. Gram._, p. 13. "The words _one, other_, and _none_, are used in both numbers."--_Kirkham's Gram._, p. 107. "A compound word is made up of two or more words, usually joined by an hyphen, as summer-house, spirit-less, school-master."--_Blair's Gram._, p. 7. "There is an inconvenience in introducing new words by composition which nearly resembles others in use before; as, _disserve_, which is too much like _deserve_."--_Priestley's Gram._, p. 145. "For even in that case, the trangressing the limits in the least, will scarce be pardoned."--_Sheridan's Lect._, p. 119. "What other are the foregoing instances but describing the passion another feels."--_Kames, El. of Crit._, i, 388. "'Two and three are five.' If each _substantive_ is to be taken separately as a subject, then 'two _is_ five,' and 'three _is_ five.'"--_Goodenow's Gram._, p. 87. "The article _a_ joined to the simple _pronoun other_ makes _it_ the compound _another_."-- _Priestley's Gram._, p. 96. "The _word another_ is composed of the indefinite _article prefixed_ to the _word other_."--_Murray's Gram._, p. 57; et al. "In relating things that were formerly expressed by another person, we often meet with modes of expression similar to the following."--_Ib._, p. 191. "Dropping one l
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