Frederick W.Hamilton

nine families are: 1, nouns; 2, adjectives; 3, articles; 4, verbs; 5, pronouns; 6, adverbs; 7, prepositions; 8, conjunctions; 9, interjections.

number, its gender, and its case.

There are three cases called the nominative, objective, and possessive.

Try should be followed by to rather than and. "I will try to go," not "I will try and go

You had a right to warn me," should be "It was your duty to warn me, or you ought to have warned me."

Want should not be used in the sense of wish, e. g., "I want it" really means "I feel the want of it" or "I lack it." Want, wish, and need should be carefully distinguished.

Table II
This table contains the principal parts of all irregular verbs whose past tense and perfect participles are alike

This table includes verbs that are both regular and irregular.
A
Verbs in which the regular form is preferred

The verbs of the following list also are irregular; but as they lack one or more of the principal parts, they are called defective verbs

Example: I ought to have gone yesterday