...r more than a year, I have occupied, &c." Strike out "have been" and insert "was." The form here adopted to express time would be good in French, but in English. It is constantly occurring in Millord 's History of Greece, which, although a work of great power and is a proverb for its bad English Webster, who was a good grammarian though a bad speller, says very justly, when speaking of the use o...