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"A work on english grammar and composition"


+Direction+.--_Correct the following errors, and give your reasons_:--
1. That custom has been formerly quite popular.
2. Neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.
3. He that was dead sat up and began to speak.
4. A man bought a horse for one hundred dollars; and, after keeping it
three months, at an expense of ten dollars a month, he sells it for two
hundred dollars. What per cent does he gain?
5. I should say that it was an hour's ride.
6. If I had have seen him, I should have known him.
7. I wish I was in Dixie.
8. We should be obliged if you will favor us with a song.
9. I intended to have called.
+Explanation+.--This is incorrect; it should be, _I intended to call_. The
act of calling was not completed at the time indicated by _intended_.
+Remark+.--Verbs of commanding, desiring, expecting, hoping, intending,
permitting, etc. are followed by verbs denoting present or future time.
[Footnote: The "Standard Dictionary" makes this restriction: "The doubling
of the past tenses in connection with the use of _have_ with a past
participle is proper and necessary when the completion of the future act
was intended before the occurrence of something else mentioned or thought
of. Attention to this qualification, which has been overlooked in the
criticism of tense-formation and connection, is especially important and
imperative.


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