The Saint Paul globe., 1901-12-15
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Correct English and JtFFow to Use 81.
BY JOSEPHINE TURcK BAKER.


Note-Were is used with the present
infinitive or the present participIe toEex-
press future event about which there
Is uncertainty. 1t is properly used when
should can be used in its stead. Exam
pies:
II / were to go-I should. pay half of
the expenses.
If We're going 1 should pay half of
the expenses.
Note-If were to go or if T were going
is equal to IF / should CO." which is
the foDrn of the future tense of the sub
junctive mood.
A Conversation.
Mrs. Al have been thinking about
farther and further and what you said
in regard to their interchangeability but
it don't seem to me that they are always
interchangeable For example / say.
Il will further your interests. 1t would
certainly be incorrect to say" will fa--
ther your interests
Mrs. B.-You may remember that we
spoke of the adjectives further and far
ther, and said the same rules obtained
in the use of the adverbs In the SEN
tence. II will further your interests
further is a verb. The reason that you
think it sounds Incorrect to say II will
farther your interests is because You
good speakers and writer's. If you will
refer to the definitions of the verbs fur
ther and farther you will see that fur
ther means to promote, to advance and
that farther means to promote, to adj
vance You will also find the word rare
inserted after the definition of the verb
farther, with instructions to- see the verb
further. So while the two verbs are in
Interchangeable. further is the better form,
ic
writers, while farther is rarely used.
Mrs. Al notice that you say "It
sounds incorrect" OF course that. express
sion is correct, but it does not sound cor
rect. If it is correct to say "It sounds
correct it must be incorrect to say 1T
sounds badly and yet it sounds incor-
rect to say 1T sounds bad.
Mrs. B.-Certainly it is incorrect to say
'It sounds badly and it may sound in
correct so say 'It sounds bad but you
can very easily understand that when we
say "It sounds Incorrect" or SIT sounds
bad" no action is expressed by the verb,
and in consequence the adjective and not
the verb should follow the verb. We may
say 81 sounded a horn and ''I sounded
it loudly tadverb) and when I sounded it
loudly it sounded had (adjective)." Fig
uratively speaking we say 81 sounded
him carefully before asking him to lend
me some money. We also say 'the ply
sic:an. carefully sounded the patients
lungs" In each of these sentences action
is expressed by the verb sounded and, in
consequence, the adverb and not the
adjective is required, although we might
add that the same degree Of care IS not
required in sounding ones lungs as in
sounding ones pocketbook
Mrs. Al told friend of mine about
the series of articles on Correct English
and How to Use it, and she said, Il
should feel very badly if | thought 1t
would be necessary to study English after
having devoted so much attention to the
subject at college" 1 wanted to say to
her, IF you would only study the first
lesson you would never feel badly again.
But. before forget it, / noticed you said
Il sounded him carefully before asking
him to lend me some money" Shouldn't
one say loan instead of lend?
Mrs. B.-Ne, lend and not loan is the
proper verb to use. Loan is noun and
should not be used as a verb, because the
old verb lend sufficiently expresses the
meaning we wish to convey. The use Of
the noun loan as a verb is recent, md IL
you will look up the verb 1ean you will
find that it is denounced as an objectioff-
able use of the noun loan and that loan
as verb is rarely used in Great Britain.
Mrs. A.-Well, / never remember to
have seen that. ias'' sT';'t.
Mrs B.-You should say 'I don't re-
member ever to have seen that" 'I
never remember means 'I always forget s'k
and while 81 never remember Is the cor
rect form to use in come instances it is
incorrect in the sentence 81 never reA
member to have seen,r for that is quiv-
alent to saying ST always forget to have
seem ssas
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