EXPERIENCE. "We _experience_ great difficulty in getting him to take his medicine." The word _have_ ought to be big enough, in a sentence like this, for anybody. "We _experienced_ great hardships." Better, "We _suffered_."
EXTEND. This verb, the primary meaning of which is to stretch out, is used, especially by lovers of big words, in connections where to give, to show, or to offer would be preferable. For example, it is certainly better to say, "They _showed_ me every courtesy," than "They _extended_ every courtesy to me." See EVERY.
FALSE GRAMMAR. Some examples of false grammar will show what every one is the better for knowing: that in literature nothing should be taken on trust; that errors of grammar even are found where we should least expect them. "I do not know whether the imputation _were_ just or not."--Emerson. "I proceeded to inquire if the 'extract' ... _were_ a veritable quotation."--Emerson. Should be _was_ in both cases. "How _sweet_ the moonlight sleeps!"--Townsend, "Art of Speech," vol. i, p. 114. Should be _sweetly_. "There is no question _but_ these arts ... will greatly aid him," etc.--Ibid., p. 130. Should be _that_. "Nearly all who have been distinguished in literature or oratory have made ... the generous confession that their attainments _have been_ reached through patient and laborious industry. They have declared that speaking and writing, though once difficult for them, _have become_ well-nigh recreations."--Ibid., p. 143. The _have been_ should be _were_, and the _have become_ should be _became_. "Many pronominal adverbs are correlatives of _each other_."--Harkness's "New Latin Grammar," p. 147. Should be _one another_. "Hot and cold springs, boiling springs, and quiet springs lie within a few feet of _each other_, but _none of them are properly geysers_."--Appletons' "Condensed Cyclopædia," vol. ii, p. 414. Should be _one another_, and _not one of them is properly a geyser_. "How much better for you as seller and the nation as buyer ... than to sink ... in cutting _one another's_ throats." Should be _each other's_. "A minister, noted for prolixity of style, was once preaching before the inmates of a lunatic asylum. In one of his illustrations he painted a scene of a man condemned to be hung, but reprieved under the gallows." These two sentences are so faulty that the only way to mend them is to rewrite them. They are from a work that professes to teach the "art of speech." Mended: "A minister, noted for his prolixity, once _preached_ before the inmates of a lunatic asylum. By way of illustration he painted a scene in which a man, _who had been_ condemned to be _hanged_, _was_ reprieved under the gallows."