] A harrow is drawn over the ground, _which_ (not _and which_)
covers the seed. Who doubts _that_ (not _but that_ or _but what_) Napoleon
lived [Footnote: See foot-note, page 176.] The doctor had scarcely left
_when_ (not _but_) a patient called. He has no love for his father _or_
(not _nor_) for his mother (the negative _no_ is felt throughout the
sentence, and need not be repeated by _nor_). He was not well, _nor_ (not
_or_) was he sick (_not_ is expended in the first clause; _nor_ is needed
to make the second clause negative).
+Direction+.--_Study the Caution and the Examples, and correct these
errors_:--
1. The excellence of Virgil, and which he possesses beyond other poets, is
tenderness.
2. Try and recite the lesson perfectly to-morrow.
3. Who can doubt but that there is a God?
4. No one can eat nor drink while he is talking.
5. He seldom or ever went to church.
6. No one can deny but that the summer is the hottest season.
7. I do not know as I shall like it.
8. He said that, after he had asked the advice of all his friends, that he
was more puzzled than before.
+Caution+.--_Else_, _other_, _otherwise_, _rather_, and adjectives and
adverbs expressing a comparison are usually followed by _than_. But _else_,
_other_, and _more_, implying something additional, but not different in
kind, may be followed by _but_ or _besides_.
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