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 or,--"each of which has in effect its own verb."--Lowth cor. "Sometimes, when the word ends in s, neither of the signs is used."--''A. Mur. cor. "And as neither of these manners offends the ear."--J. Walker cor. "Neither of these two tenses is confined to this signification only."--R. Johnson cor. "But neither of these circumstances is intended here."--Tooke cor. "So that all are indebted to each, and each is dependent upon all."--Bible Rep. cor. "And yet neither of them expresses any more action in this case, than it did in the other."--Bullions cor. "Each of these expressions denotes action."--Hallock cor. "Neither of these moods seems to be defined by distinct boundaries."--Butler cor. "Neither of these solutions is correct."--Bullions cor. "Neither bears any sign of case at all."--Fowler cor.'' "Each in his turn, like Banquo's monarchs, stalks." Or:-- "All in their turn, like Banquo's monarchs, stalk."--Byron cor.

"And tell what each doth by the other lose."--''Shak. cor.''

UNDER NOTE V.--VERB BETWEEN TWO NOMINATIVES.

"The quarrels of lovers are but a renewal of love."--Adam et al. cor. "Two dots, one placed above the other, are called a Sheva."--Wilson cor. "A few centuries more or less are a matter of small consequence."--Id. "Pictures were the first step towards the art of writing; hieroglyphics were the second step."--Parker cor. "The comeliness of youth is modesty and frankness; of age, condescension and dignity." Or, much better: "The great ornaments of youth are," &c.--Murray cor. "Merit and good works are the end of man's motion."--Bacon cor. "Divers philosophers hold, that the lips are parcel of the mind."--''Shak. cor. "The clothing of the natives was'' the skins of wild beasts." Or thus: "The clothes of the natives were skins of wild beasts."--''Hist. cor. "Prepossessions in favour of our native town, are not a matter of surprise."--Webster cor. "Two shillings and sixpence are half a crown, but not a half crown."--Priestley and Bicknell cor. "Two vowels, pronounced by a single impulse of the voice, and uniting in one sound, are called a diphthong."--Cooper cor. "Two or more sentences united together are called a Compound Sentence."--Day cor. "Two or more words rightly put together, but not completing an entire proposition, are called a Phrase."--Id. "But the common number of times is'' five." Or, to state the matter truly: "But the common number of tenses is six."--''Brit. Gram. cor. "Technical terms, injudiciously introduced, are an other source of darkness in composition."--Jamieson cor. "The United States are the great middle division of North America."--Morse cor. "A great cause of the low state of industry, was the restraints put upon it."--Priestley's Gram., p. 199; Churchill's'', 414. "Here two tall ships become the victor's prey."--Rowe cor. "The expenses incident to an outfit are surely no object."--The Friend cor. "Perhaps their loves, or else their sheep,   Were all that did their silly thoughts so busy keep."--''Milt. cor.''

UNDER NOTE VI.--CHANGE OF THE NOMINATIVE.

"Much care has been taken, to explain all the kinds of words."--''Inf. S. Gr. cor. "Not fewer'' [years] than three years, are spent in attaining this faculty." Or, perhaps better: "Not less than three years' time, is spent in attaining this faculty." Or thus: "Not less time than three years, is spent," &c.--Gardiner cor. "Where this night are met in state Many friends to gratulate His wish'd presence."--Milton cor. "Peace! my darling, here's no danger, Here's no ox anear thy bed."--Watts cor. "But all of these are mere conjectures, and some of them very unhappy ones."--Coleridge cor. "The old theorists' practice of calling the Interrogatives and Repliers ADVERBS, is only a part of their regular system of naming words."--O. B. Peirce cor. "Where several sentences occur, place them in the order of the facts."--Id. "And that all the events in conjunction make a regular chain of causes and effects."--''Kames cor. "In regard to their origin, the Grecian and Roman republics, though equally involved in the obscurities and uncertainties of fabulous events, present one remarkable distinction."--Adams cor. "In these respects, man is left by nature an unformed, unfinished creature."--Bp. Butler cor. "The Scriptures are the oracles of God himself."--Hooker cor. "And at our gates are all kinds of pleasant fruits."--S. Song cor. "The preterits of pluck, look, and toss, are, in speech, pronounced pluckt, lookt, tosst."--Fowler corrected''. "Severe the doom that days prolonged impose,    To stand sad witness of unnumbered woes!"--Melmoth cor.

UNDER NOTE VII.--FORMS ADAPTED TO DIFFERENT STYLES.

1. Forms adapted to the Common or Familiar Style. "Was it thou[538] that built that house?"--Brown's Institutes, Key, p. 270. "That boy writes very elegantly."--''Ib. "Could not thou write without blotting thy book?"--Ib. "Dost not thou think--or, Don't thou think, it will rain to-day?"--Ib. "Does not--or, Don't your cousin intend to visit you?"--Ib. "That boy has torn my book."--Ib. "Was it thou that spread the hay?"--Ib. "Was it James, or thou, that let him in?"--Ib. "He dares not say a word."--Ib. "Thou stood in my way and hindered me."--Ib.''

"Whom do I see?--Whom dost thou see now?--Whom does he see?--Whom dost thou love