William his hat, we say, William’s hat.”—­Infant School Gram., p. 30.  “When a word beginning with a vowel is coupled with one beginning with a consonant, the indefinite article must be repeated; thus, ’Sir Matthew Hale was a noble and an impartial judge;’ ’Pope was an elegant and a nervous writer.’”—­Maunder’s Gram., p. 11. “W and y are consonants, when they begin a word or syllable; but in every other situation they are vowels.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 7:  Bacon, Comly, Cooper, Fish, Ingersoll, Kirkham, Smith, et al. “The is used before all adjectives and substantives, let them begin as they will.”—­Bucke’s Gram., p. 26.  “Prepositions are also prefixed to words in such manner, as to coalesce with them, and to become a part of them.”—­Lowth’s Gram., p. 66.  “But h is entirely silent at the beginning of syllables not accented, as historian.”—­Blair’s Gram., p. 5.  “Any word that will make sense with to before it, is a verb.”—­Kirkham’s Gram., p. 44.  “Verbs do not, in reality, express actions; but they are intrinsically the mere names of actions.”—­Ib., p. 37.  “The nominative is the actor or subject, and the active verb is the action performed by the nominative.”—­Ib., p. 45.  “If, therefore, only one creature or thing acts, only one action, at the same instant, can be done; as, the girl writes.”—­Ib., 45.  “The verb writes denotes but one action, which the girl performs; therefore the verb writes is of the singular number.”—­Ib., 45.  “And when I say, Two men walk, is it not equally apparent, that walk is plural, because it expresses two actions?”—­Ib., p. 47.  “The subjunctive mood is formed by adding a conjunction to the indicative mood.”—­Beck’s Gram., p. 16.  “The possessive case should always be distinguished by the apostrophe.”—­ Frost’s El. of Gram., Rule 44th, p. 49. “’At these proceedings of the commons,’—­Here of is the sign of the genitive or possessive case, and commons is of that case, governed of proceedings.”—­Alex.  Murray’s Gram., p. 95.  “Here let it be observed again that, strictly speaking, no verbs have numbers nor persons, neither have nouns nor pronouns persons, when they refer to irrational creatures and inanimate things.”—­S.  Barrett’s Gram., p. 136.  “The noun or pronoun denoting the person or thing addressed or spoken to, is in the nominative case independent.”—­Frost’s El. of Gram., Rule 8th, p. 44.  “Every noun, when addressed, becomes of the second person, and is in the nominative case absolute; as—­’Paul, thou art beside thyself.’”—­Jaudon’s Gram., Rule 19th, p. 108.  “Does the Conjunction join Words together?  No; only Sentences.”—­British Gram., p. 103.  “No; the Conjunction only joins sentences together.”—­Buchanan’s Gram., p. 64.  “Every Genitive has a