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"The nouns must be coupled with and; and when a pronoun is used, it must be plural, as in the example. When the nouns are disjoined, the pronoun must be singular."--Lennie cor.

"Opinion is a common noun, or substantive, of the third person, singular number, neuter gender, and nominative case."--Wright cor.

"The mountain, thy pall and thy prison, may keep thee;   I shall see thee no more, but till death I will weep thee." --See Felton's Gram., p. 93.

MIXED EXAMPLES CORRECTED.

"If to accommodate man and beast, heaven and earth--if this be beyond me, 'tis not possible.--What consequence then follows? Or can there be any other than this?--if I seek an interest of my own, detached from that of others, I seek an interest which is chimerical, and can never have existence."--Harris.

"Again: I must have food and clothing. Without a proper genial warmth, I instantly perish. Am I not related, in this view, to the very earth itself?--to the distant sun, from whose beams I derive vigour?"--Id.

"Nature instantly ebbed again; the film returned to its place; the pulse fluttered--stopped--went on--throbbed--stopped again--moved--stopped.-- Shall I go on?--No."--Sterne cor.

"Write ten nouns of the masculine gender;--ten of the feminine;--ten of the neuter; ten indefinite in gender."--Davis cor.

"The infinitive mood has two tenses; the indicative, six; the potential, four; the subjunctive, two; and the imperative, one."--Frazee cor. "Now notice the following sentences: 'John runs.'--'Boys run.'--'Thou runnest.'"--Id.

"The Pronoun sometimes stands for a name; sometimes for an adjective, a sentence, or a part of a sentence; and, sometimes, for a whole series of propositions."--Peirce cor.

"The self-applauding bird, the peacock, see;   Mark what a sumptuous pharisee is he!"--Cowper cor.

SECTION VI.--THE EROTEME.

CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE I.--OF QUESTIONS DIRECT.

"When will his ear delight in the sound of arms? When shall I, like Oscar, travel in the light of my steel?"--Ossian, Vol. i, p. 357. "Will Henry call on me, while he shall be journeying south?"--Peirce cor.

"An Interrogative Pronoun is one that is used in asking a question; as, Who is he? and what does he want?'"--P. E. Day cor. "Who is generally used when we would inquire about some unknown person or persons; as, Who is that man?'"--Id. "Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live forever?"--Zech., i. 5.

"It is true, that some of our best writers have used than whom; but it is also true that they have used other phrases which we have rejected as ungrammatical: then why not reject this too?--The sentences in the exercises, with than who, are correct as they stand."--Lennie cor.

"When the perfect participle of an active-intransitive verb is annexed to the neuter verb to be, what does the combination form?"--Hallock cor. "Those adverbs which answer to the question where? whither? or whence? are called adverbs of place."--Id. "Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know?"--SCOTT, ALGER, BRUCE, AND OTHERS: Job, xi, 7 and 8.

"Where, where, for shelter shall the wicked fly,   When consternation turns the good man pale?"--Young.

UNDER RULE II.--OF QUESTIONS UNITED.

"Who knows what resources are in store, and what the power of God may do for thee?"--STERNE: Enfield's Speaker, p. 307.

"God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?"--SCOTT'S BIBLE, ALGER'S, FRIENDS', BRUCE'S, AND OTHERS: Numb., xxiii, 19. "Hath the Lord said it, and shall he not do it? hath he spoken it, and shall he not make it good?"--Lennie and Bullions cor.

"Who calls the council, states the certain day,   Who forms the phalanx, and who points the way?"--Pope's Essay.

UNDER RULE III.--OF QUESTIONS INDIRECT.

"To be, or not to be;--that is the question."--''Shak. et al. cor. "If it be asked, why a pause should any more be necessary to emphasis than to an accent,--or why an emphasis alone will not sufficiently distinguish the members of sentences from each other, without pauses, as accent does words,--the answer is obvious: that we are preacquainted with the sound of words, and cannot mistake them when distinctly pronounced, however rapidly; but we are not preacquainted with the meaning of sentences, which must be pointed out to us by the reader or speaker."--Sheridan cor.''

"Cry, 'By your priesthood, tell me what you are.'"--Pope cor.