Strow or Strew, be- Strowed, Strewed Strown, Strowed

Strewn, Strewed

Spit, to put on a spit, is regular.

Obs. When the past tense is a monosyllable not ending in a single vowel, the second person singular of the solemn style is formed by the addition of est ; as, heardest, fleddest, lookest. Hadst, wast, saidst, and didst, are exceptions.

N.B. The words beholden, bounden, cloven, drunken, graven, laden, molten, sodden, shaven, shorn, sunken, stricken, stringed, and wrought, which were formerly

used as perfect participles, are now used only as adjectives.

CORRESPONDING CONJUNCTIONS.

1. Some conjunctions are composed of two corresponding words. The following list embraces most of this class of connectives, and exhibits the correct mode of employing them :

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Both-and: "It is the work of a mind fitted both for minute researches and for large speculations.”Macaulay.

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Though, although—yet, still, nevertheless: "Though deep, yet clear-though gentle, yet not dull;" Though a thousand rivers discharge themselves into the ocean, still it is never full."

Whether—or :-" Whether it were I or they." Either-or: "No leave ask'st thou of either wind or

tide."

Neither-nor: "Neither act nor promise hastily." 2. Some conjunctions are used in correspondence with adverbs or adjectives. The following are the principal connectives of this class :

As-as, so: "She is as amiable as her sister;' "As he excels in virtue, so he rises in estimation." So-as: No riches make one so happy as a clear conscience;"-" Speak so as to be understood."

So-that, expressing a consequence: "She speaks so low that no one can hear what she is saying."

Not only-but, but also: "He was not only prudent, but also industrious."

Such-as: present."

"There never was such a time as the

Such-that: "Such is the emptiness of human enjoyment that we are always impatient of the present." More, sooner, &c.-than: "They have more than heart could wish;"-" The Greeks were braver than the Persians."

MISCELLANEOUS OBSERVATIONS

ON POINTS, THAT OCCASION DIFFICULTY TO THE STUDENT.

1. The letters w and y are consonants, when they precede a vowel in the same syllable: as in wine, twine, youth-in other situations they are vowels. 2. A and An are one and the same article. A is used, whenever the following word begins with a consonant―as, A man, a tree: or, with an aspirated has, a house, a horse: or, with a consonant sound—as, such a one, a university, a ewe, a eulogy. N.B. The words university, ewe, and eulogy, begin with the consonant sound of y, and the word one with the consonant sound of w.

An is used, whenever the following word begins with a vowel-as, an army, an ounce: or, with an h not sounded-as, an hour, an heir.

An is also employed by most writers before words beginning with an aspirated h, when the accent falls. on the second syllable-as, "An histórical piece:" "An heréditary government:" "An harmónious whole."