FALSE SYNTAX._English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Accompanied by a compendium, embracing a new systematic order of parsing, a new system of punctuation, exercises in false syntax, and a system of philosophical grammar, in notes, to which are added an appendix and a key to the exercises : designed for the use of schools and private learners

He speaks fluent, and reasons coherent.

She reads proper, and writes very neat.

They once lived tolerable well, but now they are miserable poor.

The lowering clouds are moving slow.

He behaved himself submissive, and was exceeding careful not to give

offence.

NOTE 4, TO RULE 29. Adverbs are sometimes improperly used instead of

adjectives; as, "The tutor addressed him in terms rather warm, but

_suitably_ to his offence."

The adverb _suitably_ is incorrect. It does not express the manner of

the action of the verb "addressed," but it denotes the _quality_ of the

noun _terms_ understood; for which reason it should be an adjective,

_suitable_.

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