The North-Carolinian., 1857-03-21
the NORTH cAReLfN


To a Daughter at School. Is
DEAR RosALIE:- .ss
Your Improvement in some branchesdSs ~
but you have acquired bad bif
of pronouncng some words which is barbar ms
and the use of certain phrases which is ery
vulgar During yonr vacation, several Loft eae
dropped from your lips, which have resa1 ed,
and now allow You to look into the nd or.
You never used such phrases at home, prior
to last winter; hence I infer two defeElf s III
that farfamed Academy good many kcen
young ladies are your companions, and konr
teacher. not sufficiently strict to cs{Hect
your very awkward manner in these things.
Your b'unders in Grammar are intoletab
Got. Tve got my lesson, dinner, hat, Satch-
el, &C. 1 got to see her just as she was 41art-
ing &c. Have, as q verb, implies possession,
and is more elegant than Pve got have
learned or committed, my lesson. xes al
lowed to see her, or make her visit onIcail.
Went. ''She hadn't ought to have ent, y
Several errors in this. She ought nd Ito
have gone. 6
Intended to have wrote.' This is in one OF
your late letters! But tho psst infntiveI Ican.
not be connected, grammatically, with atverb
expressing intention. Intended to writ, is
correct: but intention to do thing mu3 be
Joined to the present infntive.
Set. "She set down"-'she set on tll lair J
/ Sat is the past tense of .Ait. the ron
e-..-... 49,, ror set is active tsllasitrs,
verb; he set post, or set ont tree is proper
Lay. 'She laid on the sofa or bed!n Hay i
the past tense of lie, the verb you ought 10 EN-
ploy; we can say che laid himself on thk col.
ground;" but he lay all night on the Battle
held is correct
Et. She ct her breakfast Ate is the pas
tense, not ct; ct is Latin conjunction.
Done. "She done it," Do, did, done, done
is the participle, and wrong Break, broke
broken; but you would not say, .''she broken
it." do, did, have done
Fix. Pm fixing to CO." To FIX, is to fasten
to make permanent, but fastening to go, is con
Trajectory. To Gx post, and speak of fxtnr-
es; to fitting, arranging, or preparing to go, is
proper.
Seed \ our sister says you used this word
II seed her do it," hut this astounds me, and
shows how prolific and contagious are bad hab-
its and illiteratc associates
Learn. 'The principal learns me Arithmetic
The teacher teaehes,-the pupil learns No
scholar uses learn in this way.
Them. "Them trees them books" Then,
is a personal, not adjective pronoun: hence
cannot qualify nouns; those trees, books, houses,
&c, is proper.
Like do. "All the girls do like do''
Like may govern an accusation. but cannot
precede nomination in this sentence. The
girls do as do, or act like me; but not like
do
am in blushes, you may be certain as I re-
cord these errors, but it is better that you be
corrected now, than to wait till your own
school, which hope will commence in year
or two, shall detect them What--o0.G.a--,rS
could you exhibit before a class of young ladies
if yon had in the hurry of the moment, allowed
some of the above expressions to escape you?
They would be all in a litter, and you would
never forget it.
Then you have contracted n bad habit of
pronouneing that is horrible: you make long
and narrow where it ought to be broad; Wis
basket, passed. can't etc.-Though l have fire.
quently corrected the expression, you yet use
II am mistaken" &c, when this is far from
your meaning "She is mistaken when she
says the Ganges run through Ireland No
She mistakes-she is in error-does not know
Geography: mistake, mistook, mistaken.
may mistake her expressions, especially If her
enunciation was indistinct: but cannot affirm
she is mista ken in regard to the Ganges' she
is ignorant, she mistakes the meaning or the
words of the author
That long, that high, that big. &C., some
times eScanes vOur lnS. hut the habit is not
confirmed of using that for $50 long, high,
big, &c.
How could you, this side Mason & Dixon's
line, contract the use of onto SO glibly? "She
got onto the horse, fence" real Yankeeism.
Barbarons as it is, it has crept into some
books printed 'down East"
Your affectionste Father,
S. A.
CoMPLrNENrARl.-The New York Day Book