th their commas, should be changed to
semicolons; and the last, with its semicolon, may well be made a colon.]

"He continued--Inferior artists may be at a stand, because they want
materials."--HARRIS: _Enfield's Speaker_, p. 191. "Thus, then, continued
he--The end in other arts is ever distant and removed."--_Id., ib._

"The nouns must be coupled with _and_, and when a pronoun is used it must
be plural, as in the example--When the nouns are _disjoined_ the pronoun
must be singular."--_Lennie's Gram._, 5th Ed., p. 57.

"_Opinion_ is a noun or substantive common,--of the singular
number,--neuter gender,--nominative case,--and third person."--_Wright's
Philos. Gram._, p. 228.

"The mountain--thy pall and thy prison--may keep thee;
I shall see thee no more; but till death I will weep thee."
--_Felton's Gram._, p. 146.

MIXED EXAMPLES OF ERROR

"If to accommodate man and beast, heaven and earth; if this be beyond me,
'tis not possible.--What consequence then follows? or can there be any
other than this--if I seek an interest of my own, detached from that of
others; I seek an interest which is chimerical, and can never have
existence."--HARRIS: _Enfield's Speaker_, p. 139.

"Again--I must have food and clothing--Without a proper genial warmth, I
instantly perish--Am I not related, in this view, to the very earth itself?
To the distant sun, from whose beams I derive vigour?"--_Id., ib._, p. 140.

"Nature instantly ebb'd again--the film returned to its place--the pulse
flutter'd--stopp'd--went on--throbb'd--stopp'd again--mov'd--stopp'd--shall
I go on?--No."--STERNE: _ib._, p. 307.

"Write ten nouns of the masculine gender. Ten of the feminine. Ten of the
neuter. Ten indefinite in gender."--_Pardon Davis's Gram._, p. 9.

"The Infinitive Mode has two tenses--the Indicative, six--the Potential,
two--the Subjunctive, six, and the Imperative, one."--_Frazee's Gram._,
Ster. Ed., p. 39; 1st Ed., 37. "Now notice the following sentences. John
runs,--boys run--thou runnest."--_Ib._, Ster. Ed., p. 50; 1st Ed., p. 48.

"The Pronoun sometimes stands for a name--sometimes for an adjective--a
sentence--a part of a sentence--and, sometimes for a whole series of
propositions."--_O. B. Peirce's Gram._, 1st Ed., 12mo, p. 321.

"The self-applauding bird, the peacock, see--
Mark what a sumptuous pharisee is he!"--_Cowper_, i, 49.

SECTION VI.--THE EROTEME.

The Eroteme, or Note of Interrogation, is used