76.

[FORMULE.--Not proper, because the pause after _limits_, which is
sufficient for the period, is marked only by the comma. But, according to
Rule 2d, "The period is often employed between two sentences which have a
general connexion, expressed by a personal pronoun, a conjunction, or a
conjunctive adverb." It would improve the passage, to omit the first comma,
change the second to a period, and write the pronoun _it_ with a capital.
_Judgment_ also might be bettered with an _e_, and _another_ is properly
two words.]

"He went from Boston to New York; he went from Boston; he went to New York;
in walking across the floor, he stumbled over a chair."--_Goldsbury's
Manual of E. Gram._, p. 62.

"I saw him on the spot, going along the road, looking towards the house;
during the heat of the day, he sat on the ground, under the shade of a
tree."--_Id., ib._

"George came home, I saw _him_ yesterday, here; the word him, can extend
only to the individual _George_"--_S. Barrett's E. Gram._, 10th Ed., p. 45.

"Commas are often used now, where parentheses were formerly; I cannot,
however, esteem this an improvement."--See the _Key_.

"Thou, like a sleeping, faithless sentinel
Didst let them pass unnoticed, unimproved,
And know, for that thou slumb'rest on the guard,
Thou shalt be made to answer at the bar
For every fugitive."
--_Hallock's Gram._, p. 222; _Enfield's Sp._, p. 380.

UNDER RULE III.--OF ABBREVIATIONS.

"The term pronoun (Lat _pronomen_) strictly means a word used for, or
instead of a noun."--_Bullions, E. Gram._, p. 198.

[FORMULE.--Not proper, because the syllable here put for the word _Latin_,
is not marked with a period. But, according to Rule 3d, "The period is
generally used after abbreviations, and very often to the exclusion of
other points; but, as in this case it is not a constant sign of pause,
other points may properly follow it, if the words written in full would
demand them." In this instance, a period should mark the abbreviation, and
a comma be set after _of_. By analogy, _in stead_ is also more properly two
words than one.]

"The period is also used after abbreviations; as, A. D. P. S. G. W.
Johnson."--_Butler's Pract. Gram._, p. 211. "On this principle of
classification, the later Greek grammarians divided words into eight
classes or parts of speech, viz: the Article, Noun, Pronoun, Verb,
Participle, Adverb, Preposition, and Conjunction."--_Bullions, E. Gram.