EXERCISES

OF

FALSE CONSTRUCTION.

EXAMPLES UNDER ARTICLES 106.

I often goes a walking. Thou loves play. Thou forgets thyself. We was speaking. You was wrong. Children is apt to play. Does thou learn grammar. Why prates thou? Shakespeare.

107. Poetry, painting, and music, is sister arts. Wisdom and virtue is superior to every other endowment. Pope, Swift, and Addison was cotemporary. My brother and sister was in the country. Thou and he behaves ill.

110. Either he or you is deceived. Neither poverty nor riches was injurious to him. I or thou am in fault. You or I are to go.

114. You have been playing this two hours. Give me that scissors. I have not seen him this ten days. Those sort of people fear nothing. We do not approve these kind of practices.

116. O thou my voice inspire,

Who touch'd Isaiah's hallow'd lips with fire. Pope.

Thou great first cause least understood,

Who all my sense confin'd,
To know but this, that thou art good,
And that myself am blind;
Yet gave me in this dark estate
To see the good from ill, &c.

118. Her and me are going home. Thee dost not speak truth. Him and her learn to sing. Them and us learn to dance. Them are very good apples.

119. He praised I. We esteem thou, I greatly blame they. I thank ye. We saw ye. I knew ye. Shakespeare.

120. It is not me. It was her. They said it was him. To that which once was thee. Prior. Thou are likely to be him. He believes us to be they. I take Eliza to be she and William to be he that was meant.

Here's none but thee and me. Shakespeare.

122. The man who you met upon the road is my friend. There is no man who I love so much. These are the men who I saw yesterday. Wha should I meet the other night, but my old friend? Who did you see?

123. Who did this? Me. Who bid you? Him. Who reads best? Her. Who are diligent? Us. Who are idle? them.

124. We have been reading Popes' works. He admired the soldiers horse. On eagles wings.

And art thou then Acastos dear remains?

128. "I have heard him to say it." "Ye dare not to do any such thing." "We surely need not to go at this hour.”

129. He was teaching she and 1. You are angry with me for admonishing ye. He has invited her and I.

130. Him having finished his discourse, the as

sembly was dismissed, us being greatly pleased, them greatly displeased.

132 and 162. With who do you live? Who do you live with? I live with he. Do you know who you speak to? Do you know to who you speak?

133. I esteem your brother, than who I do not know a more worthy young man. Let us honour our parents, than who none ought to be more dear to us.

134. Neither riches nor honour, or knowledge can be compared with virtue. I am so full of business as I cannot answer thee. Shakespeare. Neither in this world, neither in that to come. Can the fig-tree bear olive berries, either a vine figs? And the third part of the stars was smitten, so as the third part of heaven was darkened.*

135. "If he prefer a virtuous life and is sincere in his professions, he will succeed." "May her and me go?" "Wealth and him bade adieu to each other." " To deride the miseries of the unhappy, is inhuman: and wanting compassion towards them, is unchristian." " If thou bring thy gift to the altar and there rememberest that thy brother has aught against thee, &c.

136. "I cannot by no means allow this argument." "Nor let no comforter approach me." "We don't know nobody there."

137. I have gave. Thou hast wrote. He would not have durst. Where did you lay last

* Many of these and the following examples are to be found in Lowth's excellent grammar.

night? When was this meadow mowed? The bells have been rang all night. The house was shook by the wind. I begun yesterday. Have you began. It was began. I have chose. Milt. You have swam. Shakes. I have mistook. Do. Finish what you have began. Dryden.

Rapt in future times the bard begun. Pope.
The sun has rose, and gone to bed. Swift.
The tear forgot as soon as shed. Gray.

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138. "Being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli, which was the son of Matthat, which was, &c." "The persons of which you speak so disrespectfully, are your superiors."

139. The English and the French are near neighbours. These are islanders; those inhabit the continent.

Man is compounded of body and mind. This is common to him with the brutes; that is the image of God himself.

141. "His meat were locusts and wild honey." "The wages of sin is death." The cause of his failure were the heavy losses he had sustained. Musick and dancing is the delight of giddy youth.

143. "Joseph came between his ten brethren." Where there are janglings and discord among a man and his wife, harmony and love betwixt their children, will seldom be found.

144. "He was sent to prepare the way by preaching of repentance." "By the mortifying our corrupt affections." By the bridling my

tongue, and the keeping my seat, I shall oblige my teacher.

145. Alas! they are miserable poor. I can never think so mean of him. He writes exceeding well. She sings delightful.

146. "And when they arose early in the - morning, behold, they were all dead men." 2 Kings, 19, 35. " And he said unto his sons, saddle me the ass. So they saddled him the ass." Many are Aristos rather than Demos, only because they do not properly know what they are. We see the beautiful variety of colours in the rain-bow, and are led to consider the cause of it.

147. Let the sun in darkness veil her face, and earth to his centre shake. The moon shews his full, silver face. The soul wings his way to worlds unknown. Should not one speak well of their friends? Every person is attached to their own interest.

PROMISCUOUS EXAMPLES OF FALSE CONSTRUCTION.

Fire and water is good servants, but bad mas

ters.

The proud shall be abased, but a humble man shall be exalted.

I saw your brother about a hour ago. He was in a humour to quarrel with every body. He is far from being of an happy temper.

Virgil is called the prince of Latin poets.