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 composed."--Id. "You have been taught that a verb must always agree in person and number with it subject or nominative."--Id. "A relative pronoun, also, must always agree in person, in number, and even in gender, with its antecedent."--Id. "The answer always agrees in case with the pronoun which asks the question."--Id. "One sometimes represents an antecedent noun, in the definite manner of a personal pronoun." [529]--Id. "The mind, being carried forward to the time at which the event is to happen, easily conceives it to be present." "SAVE and SAVING are [seldom to be] parsed in the manner in which EXCEPT and EXCEPTING are [commonly explained]."--Id. "Adverbs qualify verbs, or modify their meaning, as adjectives qualify nouns [and describe things.]"--Id. "The third person singular of verbs, terminates in s or es, like the plural number of nouns."--Id. "He saith further: that, 'The apostles did not baptize anew such persons as had been baptized with the baptism of John.'"--Barclay cor. "For we who live,"--or, "For we that are alive, are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake."--Bible cor. "For they who believe in God, must be careful to maintain good works."--Barclay cor. "Nor yet of those who teach things that they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake."--Id. "So as to hold such bound in heaven as they bind on earth, and such loosed in heaven as they loose on earth."--Id. "Now, if it be an evil, to do any thing out of strife; then such things as are seen so to be done, are they not to be avoided and forsaken?"--Id. "All such as do not satisfy themselves with the superfices of religion."--Id. "And he is the same in substance, that he was upon earth,--the same in spirit, soul, and body."--Id. "And those that do not thus, are such, as the Church of Rome can have no charity for." Or: "And those that do not thus, are persons toward whom the Church of Rome can have no charity."--Id. "Before his book, he places a great list of what he accounts the blasphemous assertions of the Quakers."--Id. "And this is what he should have proved."--Id. "Three of whom were at that time actual students of philosophy in the university."--Id. "Therefore it is not lawful for any whomsoever * * * to force the consciences of others."--Id. "Why were the former days better than these?"--Bible cor. "In the same manner in which"--or, better, "Just as--the term my depends on the name books."--Peirce cor. "Just as the term HOUSE depends on the [preposition to, understood after the adjective] NEAR."--Id. "James died on the day on which Henry returned."--Id.

LESSON II.--DECLENSIONS.

"OTHER makes the plural OTHERS, when it is found without its substantive."--Priestley cor. "But his, hers, ours, yours, and theirs, have evidently the form of the possessive case."--Lowth cor. "To the Saxon possessive cases, hire, ure, eower, hira, (that is, hers, ours, yours, theirs,) we have added the s, the characteristic of the possessive case of nouns."--Id. "Upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours."--Friends cor. "In this place, His is clearly preferable either to Her or to Its."--Harris cor. "That roguish leer of yours makes a pretty woman's heart ache."--Addison cor. "Lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumbling-block."--Bible cor. "First person: Sing. I, my or mine, me; Plur. we, our or ours, us."--Wilbur and Livingston cor. "Second person: Sing, thou, thy or thine, thee; Plur. ye or you, your or yours, you."--Iid. "Third person: Sing, she, her or hers, her; Plur. they, their or theirs, them."--Iid. "So shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not yours."--ALGER, BRUCE, ET AL.; Jer., v, 19. "Second person, Singular: Nom. thou, Poss. thy or thine, Obj. thee."--Frost cor. "Second person, Dual; Nom. Gyt, ye two; Gen. Incer, of you two; Dat. Inc, incrum, to you two; Acc. Inc, you two; Voc. Eala inc, O ye two; Abl. Inc, incrum, from you two."--Gwilt cor. "Second person, Plural: Nom. Ge, ye; Gen. Eower, of you; Dat. Eow, to you; Acc. Eow, you; Voc Eala ge, O ye; Abl. Eow, from you."--Id. "These words are, mine, thine, his, hers, ours, yours, theirs, and whose."--Cardell cor. "This house is ours, and that is ''yours. Theirs is very commodious."--Murray's Gram., p. 55. "And they shall eat up thy harvest, and thy bread; they shall eat up thy flocks and thy herds."--Bible cor. "Whoever and Whichever'' are thus declined: Sing. Nom. whoever, Poss. whosever, Obj. whomever; Plur. Nom. whoever, Poss. whosever, Obj. whomever. Sing. Nom. whichever, Poss. (wanting,) Obj. whichever; Plur. Nom. whichever, Poss. (wanting,) Obj. whichever."--Cooper cor. "The compound personal pronouns are thus declined: Sing. Nom. myself, Poss. (wanting,) Obj. myself; Plur. Nom. ourselves, Poss. (wanting,) Obj. ourselves. Sing. Nom. thyself or yourself, Poss. (wanting,) Obj. thyself, &c."--Perley cor. "Every one of us, each for himself, laboured to recover him."--Sidney cor. "Unless when ideas of their opposites manifestly suggest themselves."--Wright cor. "It not only exists in time, but is itself time." "A position which the action itself will palpably confute."--Id. "A difficulty sometimes presents itself."--Id. "They are sometimes explanations in themselves."--Id. "Ours, Yours, Theirs, Hers, Its."--Barrett cor.  "Theirs, the wild chase of false felicities; His, the composed possession of the true."       --Young, N. Th., N. viii, l. 1100.

LESSON III.--MIXED EXAMPLES.

"It is the boast of Americans, without distinction of parties, that their government is the most free and perfect that exists on the earth."--Dr. Allen cor. "Children that are dutiful to their parents, enjoy great prosperity."--Sanborn cor. "The scholar that improves his time, sets an example worthy of imitation."--Id. "Nouns and pronouns that signify the same person, place, or thing, agree in case."--Cooper cor. "An interrogative sentence is one that asks a question."--