A Treatise on Grammatical Punctuation Author:John Wilson Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: RULE IV. WORDS IN PAIRS. When words follow in pairs, a comma is put between each pair, and also after the last, when the sentence is unfinished; as, Hope ... more »and fear, pleasure and pain, diversify our Jives. Truth is fair and artless, simple and sincere, uniform and consistent. Whether we eat or drink, labour or sleep, we should be moderate. Exercises. Write and point the following sentences : A wise man observes and listens reads and reflects. We ought to be humble and moderate in opinion vigilant and attentive in conduct. Interest and ambition honour and shame friendship and enmity gratitude and revenge are the prime movers in public transactions. In an eclogue there must not be any thing rude or vulgar nothing finical or affected nor any thing subtle or abstruse. Friendship is cool and deliberate sedate and temperate steady and discreet.The avaricious man contrives or labours praises or depreciates misleads or overreaches just as his present interest dictates. RULE V. TWO WORDS, OF THE SAME PART OF SPEECH, NOT CONNECTED EY A CONJUNCTION. Two words, of the same part of speech, without a conjunction between them, are separated by commas from each other; and, if nouns, from the other portions of the sentence to which they belong; as, Thomas is a plain, honest man. Every thing that the earth produces, is decomposed. Reason, virtue, answer one great aim. Exception 1. When two nouns come together as a compound, whether so written or not, or when the former partakes of the nature of an adjective, they are not separated by commas; as, Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's man-servant, nor his maidservant. The Salford Mechanics' Institution is held in York Buildings, at Victoria Bridge. Exception 2. When two adjectives are joined toge...« less