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 cor. (25.) "If, however, the two members are very closely connected, the comma is unnecessary; as, 'Revelation tells us how we may attain happiness.'"--L. Murray et al. cor. (26-27.) "The mind has difficulty in taking effectually, in quick succession, so many different views of the same object."--Dr. Blair cor.; also L. Mur. (28.) "Pronominal adjectives are a kind of definitives, which may either accompany their nouns, or represent them understood."--Kirkham cor. (29.) "When the nominative or antecedent is a collective noun conveying the idea of plurality, the verb or pronoun must agree with it in the plural number."--''Id. et al. cor. (30-34.) "A noun or a pronoun in the possessive case, is governed by the name of the thing possessed."-- Brown's Inst., p. 176; Greenleaf cor.; also Wilbur and Livingston; also Goldsbury; also P. E. Day; also Kirkham, Frazee, and Miller''. (35.) "Here the boy is represented as acting: the word boy is therefore in the nominative case."--Kirkham cor. (36.) "Do, be, have, and will, are sometimes auxiliaries, and sometimes principal verbs."--Cooper cor. (37.) "Names of males are masculine. Names of females are feminine."--Adam's Gram., p. 10; Beck cor. (38.) "'To-day's lesson is longer than yesterday's.' Here to-day's and yesterday's are substantives."--L. Murray et al. cor. (39.) "In this example, to-day's and yesterday's are nouns in the possessive case."--Kirkham cor. (40.) "An Indian in Britain would be much surprised to find by chance an elephant feeding at large in the open fields."--Kames cor. (41.) "If we were to contrive a new language, we might make any articulate sound the sign of any idea: apart from previous usage, there would be no impropriety in calling oxen men, or rational beings oxen."--L. Murray cor. (42.) "All the parts of a sentence should form a consistent whole."--Id et al. cor.

(43.) "Full through his neck the weighty falchion sped,         Along the pavement rolled the culprit's head."--Pope cor.

UNDER CRITICAL NOTE VII.--OF SELF-CONTRADICTION.

(1.) "Though 'The king, with the lords and commons,' must have a singular rather than a plural verb, the sentence would certainly stand better thus: 'The king, the lords, and the commons, form an excellent constitution.'"--''Mur. and Ing. cor. (2-3.) "L has a soft liquid sound; as in love, billow, quarrel. This letter is sometimes silent; as in half, task [sic for 'talk'--KTH], psalm."--Mur. and Fisk cor.; also Kirkham''. (4.) "The words means and amends, though regularly derived from the singulars mean and amend, are not now, even by polite writers, restricted to the plural number. Our most distinguished modern authors often say, 'by this means,' as well as, 'by these means.'"--Wright cor. (5.) "A friend exaggerates a man's virtues; an enemy, his crimes."--''Mur. cor. (6.) "The auxiliary have, or any form of the perfect tense, belongs not properly to the subjunctive mood. We suppose past facts by the indicative: as, If I have loved, If thou hast loved, &c."--Merchant cor. (7.) "There is also an impropriety in using both the indicative and the subjunctive mood with the same conjunction; as, If a man have a hundred sheep, and one of them is gone astray,' &c. [This is Merchant's perversion of the text. It should be, 'and one of them go astray:' or, be gone astray,' as in Matt., xviii. 12.]"--Id. (8.) "The rising series of contrasts conveys transcendent dignity and energy to the conclusion."--Jamieson cor. (9.) "A groan or a shriek is instantly understood, as a language extorted by distress, a natural language which conveys a meaning that words are not adequate'' to express. A groan or a shriek speaks to the ear with a far more thrilling effect than words: yet even this natural language of distress may be counterfeited by art."--Dr. Porter cor. (10.) "If these words [book and pen] cannot be put together in such a way as will constitute plurality, then they cannot be 'these words;' and then, also, one and one cannot be two."--James Brown cor. (11.) "Nor can the real pen and the real book be added or counted together in words, in such a manner as will not constitute plurality in grammar."--Id. (12.) "Our is a personal pronoun, of the possessive ''case. Murray does not decline it."--Mur. cor. (13.) "This and that, and their plurals these and those, are often'' opposed to each other in a sentence. When this or that is used alone, i.e., without contrast, this is applied to what is present or near; that, to what is absent or distant."--Buchanan cor. (14.) "Active and neuter verbs may be conjugated by adding their imperfect participle to the auxiliary verb be, through all its variations."--"Be is an auxiliary whenever it is placed before either the perfect or the imperfect participle of an other verb; but, in every other situation, it is a principal verb."--Kirkham cor. (15.) "A verb in the imperative mood is almost always of the second person."--"The verbs, according to a foreign idiom, or the poet's license, are used in the imperative, agreeing with a nominative of the first or third person."--Id. (16.) "A personal pronoun, is a pronoun that shows, by its form, of what person it is."--"Pronouns of the first person do not disagree in person with the nouns they represent."--Id. (17.) "Nouns have three cases; the nominative, the possessive, and the objective."--"Personal pronouns have, like nouns, three cases; the nominative, the possessive, and the objective."--Beck cor. (18.) "In many instances the preposition suffers a change and becomes an adverb by its mere application."--L. Murray cor. (19.) "Some nouns are used only in the plural; as, ashes, literati, minutiæ. Some nouns have the same form in both numbers; as, sheep, deer, series, species. Among the inferior parts of speech, there are some pairs or couples."--Rev. D. Blair cor. (20.) "Concerning the pronominal adjectives, that may, or may not, represent their nouns."--O. B. Peirce cor. (21.) "The word a is in a few instances employed in the sense of a preposition; as, 'Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing;' i. e., I go to fishing."--Weld cor. (22.) "So, too, verbs that are commonly transitive, are used intransitively, when they have no object."--Bullions cor.

(23.) "When first young Maro, in his boundless mind,         A work t' outlast imperial Rome design'd."--Pope cor.