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 possessive case."--Farnum cor. "When several short sentences come together"--Id. "Words are divided into ten classes, called Parts of Speech."--L. Ainsworth cor. "A passive verb has its agent or doer always in the objective case, governed by a preposition."--Id. "I am surprised at your inattention."--Id. "SINGULAR: Thou lovest, not You love. You has always a plural verb."--Bullions cor. "How do you know that love is of the first person? Ans. Because we, the pronoun, is of the first person."--Id. and Lennie cor. "The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea."--Gray's Elegy, l. 2: Bullions cor. "Iambic verses have their second, fourth, and other even syllables accented."--Bullions cor. "Contractions that are not allowable in prose, are often made in poetry."--Id. "Yet to their general's voice they soon obey'd"-- Milton. "It never presents to his mind more than one new subject at the same time."--Felton cor. "An abstract noun is the name of some particular quality considered apart from its substance."--Brown's Inst. of E. Gram., p. 32. "A noun is of the first person when it denotes the speaker."--Felton cor. "Which of the two brothers is a graduate?"-- Hallock cor. "I am a linen-draper bold, As all the world doth know."--Cowper. "Oh the pain, the bliss of dying!"--Pope. "This do; take to you censers, thou, Korah, and all thy company."--Bible cor. "There are three participles; the imperfect, the perfect, and the preperfect: as, reading, read, having read. Transitive verbs have an active and passive participle: that is, their form for the perfect is sometimes active, and sometimes passive; as, read, or loved."--S. S. Greene cor.

"O Heav'n, in my connubial hour decree    My spouse this man, or such a man as he."--Pope cor.

LESSON IV.--UNDER VARIOUS RULES.

"The past tenses (of Hiley's subjunctive mood) represent conditional past facts or events, of which the speaker is uncertain."--Hiley cor. "Care also should be taken that they be not introduced too abundantly."--Id. "Till they have become familiar to the mind." Or: "Till they become familiar to the mind."--Id. "When once a particular arrangement and phraseology have become familiar to the mind."--Id. "I have furnished the student with the plainest and most practical directions that I could devise."--Id. "When you are conversant with the Rules of Grammar, you will be qualified to commence the study of Style."--Id. "C before e, i, or y, always has a soft sound, like s."--L. Murray cor. "G before e, i, or y, is generally soft; as in genius, ginger, Egypt."--Id. "C before e, i, or y, always sounds soft, like s."--Hiley cor. "G is generally soft before e, i, or y; as in genius, ginger, Egypt."--Id. "A perfect alphabet must always contain just as many letters as there are elementary sounds in the language: the English alphabet, having fewer letters than sounds, and sometimes more than one letter for the same sound, is both defective and redundant."--Id. "A common noun is a name, given to a whole class or species, and is applicable to every individual of that class."--Id. "Thus an adjective has usually a noun either expressed or understood."--Id. "Emphasis is extraordinary force used in the enunciation of such words as we wish to make prominent in discourse." Or: "Emphasis is a peculiar stress of voice, used in the utterance of words specially significant."--Dr. H. Blair cor.; also L. Murray. "So simple a question as. 'Do you ride to town to-day?' is capable of as many as four different acceptations, the sense varying as the emphasis is differently placed."--Iid. "Thus, bravely, for 'in a brave manner.' is derived from brave-like."--Hiley cor. "In this manner, several different parts of speech are often formed from one root by means of different affixes."--Id. "Words derived from the same root, are always more or less allied in signification."--Id. "When a noun of multitude conveys the idea of unity, the verb and pronoun should be singular; but when it conveys the idea of plurality, the verb and pronoun must be plural."--Id. "They have spent their whole time to make the sacred chronology agree with the profane."--Id. "I have studied my lesson, but you have not looked at yours."--Id. "When words are connected in pairs, there is usually a comma after each pair."-- Hiley, Bullions, and Lennie, cor. "When words are connected in pairs, the pairs should be marked by the comma."--Farnum cor. "His book entitled, 'Studies of Nature,' is deservedly a popular work."--''Biog. Dict. cor.''

"Here rests his head upon the lap of earth,   A youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown."--GRAY.

"Youth,' here, is in the nominative case, (the verb rests being, in this instance, transitive,) and is the subject of the sentence. The meaning is, A youth here rests his head,' &c."--Hart cor. "The pronoun I, as well as the interjection O, should be written with a capital." Or: "The pronoun I, and the interjection O, should be written with capitals"--Weld cor. "The pronoun I should always be written with a capital."--Id. "He went from London to York."--Id. "An adverb is a word added to a verb, a participle, an adjective, or an other adverb, to modify its meaning."--Id. (See Lesson 1st under the General Rule.) "SINGULAR signifies, expressing only one;' denoting but one person or thing. PLURAL, (Latin pluralis, from plus, more,) signifies, expressing more than one.--Weld cor. "When the present ends in e, d only is added to form the imperfect tense and the perfect participle of regular verbs."--Id. "Synæresis is the contraction of two syllables into one; as, seest for seëst, drowned for drown-ed."--Id. (See Brown's Inst. p. 230.) "Words ending in ee are often inflected by mere consonants, and without receiving an additional syllable beginning with e: as, see, seest, sees; agree, agreed, agrees."--Weld cor. "In monosyllables, final f, l, or s, preceded by a single vowel, is doubled; as in staff, mill, grass."--Id. "Before ing, words ending in ie drop the e, and change the i into y; as, die, dying."--Id." One number may be used for the other--or, rather, the plural may be used for the singular; as, we'' for