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 three genders; the masculine, the feminine, and the neuter."--Adam cor. "The numbers are two; the singular and the plural."--Id. et al. "The persons are three; the first, the second, and the third."--Iidem. "Nouns and pronouns have three cases; the nominative, the possessive, and the objective."--Comly and Ing. cor. "Verbs have five moods; namely, the infinitive, the indicative, the potential, the subjunctive, and the imperative."--Bullions et al. cor. "How many numbers have pronouns? Two, the singular and the plural."--Bradley cor. "To distinguish between an interrogative and an exclamatory sentence."--Murray et al. cor. "The first and the last of which are compound members."--Lowth cor. "In the last lecture, I treated of the concise and the diffuse, the nervous and the feeble manner."--Blair cor. "The passive and the neuter verbs I shall    reserve for some future conversation."--Ingersoll cor. "There are two voices; the active and the passive."--Adam et al. cor. "WHOSE is rather the poetical than the regular genitive of WHICH."--Johnson cor. "To feel the force of a compound or a derivative word."--Town cor. "To preserve the distinctive uses of the copulative and the disjunctive conjunctions."--Murray et al. cor. "E has a long and a short sound in most languages."--Bicknell cor. "When the figurative and the literal sense are mixed and jumbled together."--Dr. Blair cor. "The Hebrew, with which the Canaanitish and the Phoenician stand in connexion."--Conant and Fowler cor. "The languages of Scandinavia proper, the Norwegian and the Swedish."--Fowler cor.

UNDER NOTE V.--ADJECTIVES CONNECTED.

"The path of truth is a plain and safe path."--Murray cor. "Directions for acquiring a just and happy elocution."--Kirkham cor. "Its leading object is, to adopt a correct and easy method."--Id. "How can it choose but wither in a long and sharp winter?"--Cowley cor. "Into a dark and distant unknown."--Dr. Chalmers cor. "When the bold and strong enslaved his fellow man."--Chazotte cor. "We now proceed to consider the things most essential to an accurate and perfect sentence."--Murray cor. "And hence arises a second and very considerable source of the improvement of taste."--Dr. Blair cor. "Novelty produces in the mind a vivid and agreeable emotion."--Id. "The deepest and bitterest feeling still is that of the separation."--Dr. M'Rie cor. "A great and good man looks beyond time."--See Brown's Inst., p. 263. "They made but a weak and ineffectual resistance."--Ib. "The light and worthless kernels will float."--Ib. "I rejoice that there is an other and better world."--Ib. "For he is determined to revise his work, and present to the public an other and better edition."--Kirkham cor. "He hoped that this title would secure to him an ample and independent authority."--''L. Murray cor. et al''. "There is, however, an other and more limited sense."--J. Q. Adams cor.

UNDER NOTE VI.--ARTICLES OR PLURALS.

"This distinction forms what are called the diffuse style and the concise."--Dr. Blair cor. "Two different modes of speaking, distinguished at first by the denominations of the Attic manner and the Asiatic."--Adams cor. "But the great design of uniting the Spanish and French monarchies under the former, was laid."--Bolingbroke cor. "In the solemn and poetic styles, it [do or did] is often rejected."--Allen cor. "They cannot be, at the same time, in both the objective case and the nominative." Or: "They cannot be, at the same time, in both the objective and the nominative case." Or: "They cannot be, at the same time, in the nominative case, and also in the objective." Or: "They cannot be, at the same time, in the nominative and objective cases."--Murray's Gram., 8vo, p. 148. Or, better: "They cannot be, at the same time, in both cases, the nominative and the objective."--Murray et al. cor. "They are named the positive, comparative, and superlative degrees."--Smart cor. "Certain adverbs are capable of taking an inflection; namely, that of the comparative and superlative degrees."--Fowler cor. "In the subjunctive mood, the present and imperfect tenses often carry with them a future sense."--Murray et al. cor. "The imperfect, the perfect, the pluperfect, and the first-future tense, of this mood, are conjugated like the same tenses of the indicative."--Kirkham bettered. "What rules apply in parsing personal pronouns of the second and third persons?"--Id. "Nouns are sometimes in the nominative or the objective case after the neuter verb be, or after an active-intransitive or a passive verb." "The verb varies its ending in the singular, in order to agree with its nominative, in the first, second, and third persons."--Id. "They are identical in effect with the radical and the vanishing stress."--Rush cor. "In a sonnet, the first, the fourth, the fifth, and the eighth line, usually rhyme to one an other: so do the second, third, sixth, and seventh lines; the ninth, eleventh, and thirteenth lines; and the tenth, twelfth, and fourteenth lines."--Churchill cor. "The iron and golden ages are run; youth and manhood are departed."--Wright cor. "If, as you say, the iron and the golden age are past, the youth and the manhood of the world."--Id. "An Exposition of the Old and New Testaments."--Henry cor. "The names and order of the books of the Old and the New Testament."--Bible cor. "In the second and third persons of that tense."--Murray cor. "And who still unites in himself the human and the divine nature."--Gurney cor. "Among whom arose the Italian, Spanish, French, and English languages."--Murray cor. "Whence arise these two numbers, the singular and the plural."--Burn cor.

UNDER NOTE VII.--CORRESPONDENT TERMS.

"Neither the definitions nor the examples are entirely the same as his."--Ward cor. "Because it makes a discordance between the thought and the expression."--Kames cor. "Between the adjective and the following substantive."--Id. "Thus Athens became both the repository and the nursery of learning."--Chazotte cor. "But the French pilfered from both the Greek and the Latin."