He died a natural death. He dreamed a dream. I ran

a race.

158. The relatives who, which, and that, follow their antecedents.

The man whom you admire, deserves not your confidence. Happy is he that profits by another's experi

ence.

159. Adverbs usually precede the adjectives, and follow the verbs, with which they are connected.

Deference is the most elegant of all compliments. A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, and live upon contentedly.

160. The adverb may be placed between the auxiliary and the participle.

Who is he that hath not offended with his tongue. You have often deceived me. The time is now come.' It hath frequently happened.

161. Prepositions usually come before the words which they govern; as, He went from Boston to New-York.

162. The preposition is frequently (though improperly) separated from the relative which it governs, and placed at the end of a clause or sen

tence.

Whom do you live with? Whom shall book to? What will you play for?

GENERAL DIRECTION.

give the

In arranging the parts of a sentence we ought principally to aim at perspicuity. In general we may observe, that words connected in sense, should be placed as near each other as possible-that circumstances should be joined to those parts of a sentence on which they are dependant-and the order of words correspond with the order of our ideas.

THE

APPENDIX;

CONTAINING

A TABLE OF VERBS

IRREGULARLY INFLECTED;

REMARKS ON SOME GRAMMATICAL
FIGURES;

RULES OF PUNCTUATION;

A PRAXIS ON THE GRAMMAR, WITH
EXAMPLES OF TRUE AND FALSE
CONSTRUCTION.

A TABLE OF VERBS IRREGULARLY
INFLECTED.

ARTICLE 136.

THOSE irregularities are omitted, which proceed from contracting the regular preterite tense and participle, by changing ed into it; as I deal, I dealt.

Note. Verbs ending in l, or ss, or which regularly double the final consonant in the preterite tense and participle, lose one of the double letters in contraction, as dwelt, past, slipt.

Where the inflection is distinguished by an asterisk, the regular form is also in use.

draw,

drew,

drawn.

When dare signifies to challenge, it is always in

flected in the regular form.

Lade,

+ It may be proper to distinguish this verb from the word to fly, with which it is often confounded. We flee from an enemy; but a bird flies with wings.

This participle is often improperly used for flowed, the regular participle of the verb to flow.

These different participles are used in different senses; we say, the man was hanged; but a coat is hung up:

It is a common mistake to confound this verb, which signifies to place, with the neuter verb to lie; as Where did you lay last night ? instead of where did you lie last night?