Chapter X: Prepositions

CORRECTIONS IN THE USE OF PREPOSITIONS.

"Nouns are often formed _from_ participles."--_L. Murray corrected_. "What tenses are formed _from_ the perfect participle?"--_Ingersoll cor._ "Which tense is formed _from_ the _present_, or root of the verb?"--_Id._ "When a noun or _a_ pronoun is placed before a participle, independently _of_ the rest of the sentence."--_Churchill's Gram._, p. 348. "If the addition consists _of_ two or more words."--_Mur. et al. cor._ "The infinitive mood is often made absolute, or used independently _of_ the rest of the sentence."--_Lowth's Gram._, 80; _Churchill's_, 143; _Bucke's_, 96; _Merchant's_, 92. "For the great satisfaction of the reader, we _shall present a variety_ of false constructions."--_Murray cor._ "For your satisfaction, I _shall present you a variety_ of false constructions."-- _Ingersoll cor._ "I shall here _present [to] you a scale_ of derivation."-- _Bucke cor._ "These two manners of representation in respect _to_ number."--_Lowth and Churchill cor._ "There are certain adjectives which seem to be derived _from verbs, without_ any variation."--_Lowth cor._ "Or disqualify us for receiving instruction or reproof _from_ others."--_Murray cor._ "For being more studious than any other pupil _in_ the school."-- _Id._ "Misunderstanding the directions, we lost our way."--_Id._ "These people reduced the greater part of the island _under_ their own power."-- _Id._ "The principal accent distinguishes one syllable _of_ a word from the rest."--_Id._ "Just numbers are in unison _with_ the human mind."--_Id._ "We must accept of sound _in stead_ of sense."--_Id._ "Also, _in stead of consultation_, he uses _consult_."--_Priestley cor._ "This ablative seems to be governed _by_ a preposition understood."--_W. Walker cor._ "_Lest_ my father _hear of it_, by some means or other."--_Id._ "And, besides, my wife would hear _of it_ by some means."--_Id._ "For insisting _on_ a requisition so odious to them."--_Robertson cor._ "Based _on_ the great self-evident truths of liberty and equality."--_Manual cor._ "Very little knowledge of their nature is acquired _from_ the spelling-book."--_Murray cor._ "They do not cut it off: except _from_ a few words; as, _due, duly_, &c."--_Id._ "Whether passing _at_ such time, or then finished."--_Lowth cor._ "It hath disgusted hundreds _with_ that confession."--_Barclay cor._ "But they have egregiously fallen _into_ that inconveniency."--_Id._ "For is not this, to set nature _at_ work?"--_Id._ "And, surely, that which should set all its springs _at_ work, is God."--_Atterbury cor._ "He could not end his treatise without a panegyrie _on_ modern learning."--_Temple cor._ "These are entirely independent _of_ the modulation of the voice."--_J. Walker cor._ "It is dear _at_ a penny. It is cheap _at_ twenty pounds."--_W. Walker cor._ "It will be despatched, _on_ most occasions, without resting."--_Locke cor._ "_Oh_ the pain, the bliss of dying!"--_Pope_. "When the objects or the facts are presented _to him_."--_R. C. Smith cor._ "I will now present you a synopsis."--_Id._ "The disjunctive conjunction connects _words or_ sentences, _and suggests an_ opposition of meaning, _more or less direct_."--_Id._ "I shall now present _to_ you a few lines."--_Bucke cor._ "Common names, _or_ substantives, are those which stand for things _assorted_."--_Id._ "Adjectives, in the English language, _are not varied by_ genders, numbers, or cases; _their only inflection is for_ the degrees of comparison."--_Id._ "Participles are [little more than] adjectives formed _from_ verbs."--_Id._ "I do love to walk out _on_ a fine _summer_ evening."--_Id._ "_Ellipsis_, when applied to grammar, is the elegant omission of one or more words _of_ a sentence."--_Merchant cor._ "The _preposition to_ is generally _required_ before verbs in the infinitive mood, but _after_ the following verbs it is properly omitted; namely, _bid, dare, feel, need, let, make, hear, see_: as, 'He _bid_ me _do_ it;' not, 'He _bid_ me _to_ do it.'"--_Id._ "The infinitive sometimes follows _than, for the latter term of_ a comparison; as, ['Murray should have known _better than to write_, and Merchant, _better than to copy_, the text here corrected, or the ambiguous example they appended to it.']"--_Id._ "Or, by prefixing the _adverb more_ or _less, for_ the comparative, and _most_ or _least, for_ the superlative."--_Id._ "A pronoun is a word used _in stead_ of a noun."--_Id._ "From monosyllables, the comparative is regularly formed by adding _r_ or _er_."--_Perley cor._ "He has particularly named these, in distinction _from_ others."--_Harris cor._ "To revive the decaying taste _for ancient_ literature."--_Id._ "He found the greatest difficulty _in_ writing."--_Hume cor._

"And the tear, that is wiped with a little address,
May be followed perhaps _by_ a smile."--_Cowper_, i, 216.