“Here the noun James Munroe is addressed, he is spoken to, it is here a noun of the second person.”—­Mack’s Gram., p. 66.  “The number and case of a verb can never be ascertained until its nominative is known.”—­Emmons’s Gram., p. 36.  “A noun of multitude, or signifying many, may have the verb and pronoun agreeing with it either in the singular or plural number; yet not without regard to the import of the word, as conveying unity or plurality of idea.”—­Lowth’s Gram., p. 75; Murray’s, 152; Alger’s, 54; Russell’s, 55; Ingersoll’s, 248; et al. “To express the present and past imperfect of the active and neuter verb, the auxiliary do is sometimes used:  I do (now) love; I did (then) love.”—­Lowth’s Gram., p. 40.  “If these are perfectly committed, they will be able to take twenty lines for a lesson on the second day; and may be increased each day.”—­Osborn’s Key, p. 4.  “When c is joined with h (ch), they are generally sounded in the same manner:  as in Charles, church, cheerfulness, and cheese.  But foreign words (except in those derived from the French, as chagrin, chicanery, and chaise, in which ch are sounded like sh) are pronounced like k; as in Chaos, character, chorus, and chimera.”—­Bucke’s Classical Gram., p. 10.  “Some substantives, naturally neuter, are, by a figure of speech, converted into the masculine or feminine gender.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 37; Comly’s, 20; Bacon’s, 13; A Teacher’s, 8; Alger’s, 16; Lennie’s, 11; Fisk’s, 56; Merchant’s, 27; Kirkham’s, 35; et al. “Words in the English language may be classified under ten general heads, the names of which classes are usually termed the ten parts of speech.”—­Nutting’s Gram., p. 14. “’Mercy is the true badge of nobility.’ Nobility is a noun of multitude, mas. and fem. gender, third person, sing. and in the obj. case, and governed by ‘of:’  RULE 31.”—­Kirkham’s Gram., p. 161. “gh, are either silent, or have the sound of f, as in laugh.”—­Town’s Spelling-Book, p. 10.  “As many people as were destroyed, were as many languages or dialects lost and blotted out from the general catalogue.”—­Chazotte’s Essay, p. 25.  “The grammars of some languages contain a greater number of the moods, than others, and exhibit them in different forms.”—­Murray’s Gram., 8vo.  Vol. i, p. 95.  “A COMPARISON OR SIMILE, is, when the resemblance between two objects is expressed in form, and generally pursued more fully than the nature of a metaphor admits.”—­Ib., p. 343.  “In some dialects, the word what is improperly used for that, and sometimes we find it in this sense in writing.”—­Ib., p. 156; Priestley’s Gram., 93; Smith’s, 132; Merchant’s, 87; Fisk’s,