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 agree with its subject, or nominative, in person and number Because the meaning is--fear is.'"--Id. "Ae in the word Gælic, has the sound of long a."--Wells cor.

UNDER CRITICAL NOTE XI.--OF LITERARY BLUNDERS.

"Repeat some adverbs that are composed of the prefix or preposition a and nouns."--Kirkham cor. "Participles are so called, because they participate or partake the properties of verbs and of adjectives or nouns. The Latin word participium, which signifies a participle, is derived from participo, to partake."--Merchant cor. "The possessive precedes an other noun, and is known by the sign 's, or by this ', the apostrophe only."--Beck cor. "Reciprocal pronouns, or compound personal pronouns, are formed by adding self or selves to the simple possessives of the first and second persons, and to the objectives of the third person; as, myself, yourselves, himself, themselves."--Id. "The word SELF, and its plural SELVES, when used separately as names, must be considered as nouns; but when joined to the simple pronouns, they are not nouns, but parts of the compound personal pronouns."--Wright cor. "The Spondee 'rolls round,' expresses beautifully the majesty of the sun in his course."--Webster and Frazee cor. "Active-transitive verbs govern the objective case; as, 'John learned his lesson.'"--Frazee cor. "Prosody primarily signified accent, or the modulation of the voice; and, as the name implies, related to poetry, or song."--Hendrick cor. "On such a principle of forming them, there would be as many moods as verbs; and, in stead of four moods, we should have four thousand three hundred, which is the number of verbs in the English language, according to Lowth." [556]--Hallock cor. "The phrases, 'To let out blood,'--'To go a hunting,' are not elliptical; for out is needless, and a is a preposition, governing hunting."--Bullions cor. "In Rhyme, the last syllable of every line corresponds in sound with that of some other line or lines."--Id. "The possessive case plural, where the nominative ends in s, has the apostrophe only; as, Eagles wings,'--lions whelps,'--bears claws.'"--Weld cor. "'Horses-manes,' plural, should be written possessively, 'horses' manes:'" [one "mane" is never possessed by many "horses."]--Id. "W takes its usual form from the union of two Vees, V being the figure of the Roman capital letter which was anciently called U."--Fowler cor. "In the sentence, 'I saw the lady who sings,' what word is nominative to SINGS?"--J. Flint cor. "In the sentence, 'This is the pen which John made,' what word expresses the object of MADE?"--Id. "'That we fall into no sin:' no is a definitive or pronominal adjective, not compared, and relates to sin."--Rev. D. Blair cor. "'That all our doings may be ordered by thy governance:' all is a pronominal adjective, not compared, and relates to doings."--Id. "'Let him be made to study.' Why is the sign to expressed before study? Because be made is passive; and passive verbs do not take the infinitive after them without the preposition to."--Sanborn cor. "The following verbs have both the preterit tense and the perfect participle like the present: viz., Cast, cut, cost, shut, let, bid, shed, hurt, hit, put, &c."--Buchanan cor. "The agreement which any word has with an other in person, number, gender, or case, is called CONCORD; and the power which one word has over an other, in respect to ruling its case, mood, or form, is called GOVERNMENT."--Bucke cor. "The word ticks tells what the watch is doing."--Sanborn cor. "The Breve ([~]) marks a short vowel or syllable, and the Macron ([=]), a long one."--Bullions and Lennie cor. "'Charles, you, by your diligence, make easy work of the task given you by your preceptor.' The first you is in the nominative case, being the subject of the verb make."--Kirkham cor. "Uoy in buoy is a proper triphthong; eau in flambeau is an improper triphthong."--Sanborn cor. "'While I of things to come, As past rehearsing, sing.'--POLLOK. That is, 'While I sing of things to come, as if I were rehearsing things that are past.'"--Kirkham cor. "A simple sentence usually has in it but one nominative, and but one finite verb."--Folker cor. "An irregular verb is a verb that does not form the preterit and the perfect participle by assuming d or ed."--Brown's Inst., p. 75. "But, when the antecedent is used in a restricted sense, a comma is sometimes inserted before the relative; as, 'There is no charm in the female sex, which can supply the place of virtue.'"--L. Murray's Gram., p. 273. Or: "But, when the antecedent is used in a restricted sense, no comma is usually inserted before the relative; as, 'There is in the female sex no charm which can supply the place of virtue.'"--Kirkham cor. "Two capitals used in this way, denote different words; but one repeated, marks the plural number: as, L. D. Legis Doctor; LL. D. Legum Doctor."--Gould cor. "Was any person present besides the mercer? Yes; his clerk."--L. Murray cor. "The word adjective comes from the Latin adjectivum; and this, from ad, to, and jacio, I cast."--Kirkham cor. "Vision, or Imagery, is a figure by which the speaker represents the objects of his imagination, as actually before his eyes, and present to his senses. Thus Cicero, in his fourth oration against Cataline: 'I seem to myself to behold this city, the ornament of the earth, and the capital of all nations, suddenly involved in one conflagration. I see before me the slaughtered heaps of citizens lying unburied in the midst of their ruined country. The furious countenance of Ceth[=e]'gus rises to my view, while with savage joy he is triumphing in your miseries.'"--Dr. Blair cor.; also L. Murray. "When two or more verbs follow the same nominative, an auxiliary that is common to them both or all, is usually expressed to the first, and understood to the rest: as, 'He has gone and left me;' that is, 'He has gone and has left me.'"--Comly cor. "When I use the word pillar to denote a column that supports an edifice, I employ it literally."--Hiley cor. "In poetry, the conjunction nor is often used for neither; as

'A stately superstructure, that nor wind, Nor wave, nor shock of falling years, could move.'--POLLOK."--Id.