Philos.  Gram., p. 231; Webster’s Imp.  Gram., p. 165; Frazee’s Imp.  Gram., p. 192.  “Prepositions govern the objective case; as, John learned his lesson.”—­Frazee’s Gram., p. 153.  “Prosody primarily signified punctuation; and as the name implies, related to stopping by the way.”—­Hendrick’s Gram., p. 103.  “On such a principle of forming modes, there would be as many modes as verbs; and instead of four modes, we should have forty-three thousand, which is the number of verbs in the English language, according to Lowth.”—­Hallock’s Gram., p. 76.  “The following phrases are elliptical:  ‘To let out blood.’  ‘To go a hunting:’  that is,’ To go on a hunting excursion.’”—­Bullions, E. Gram., p. 129.  “In Rhyme, the last syllable of every two lines has the same sound.”—­Id., Practical Lessons, p. 129.  “The possessive case plural, ending in es, has the apostrophe, but omits the s; as, Eagles’ wings.”—­Weld’s Gram., p. 62; Abridg., p. 54.  “Horses (plural) -mane, [should be written] horses’ mane.”—­Weld’, ib., pp. 62 and 54.  “W takes its written form from the union of two v’s, this being the form of the Roman capital letter which we call V.”—­Fowler’s E. Gram., 1850, p. 157.  “In the sentence, ’I saw the lady who sings,’ what word do I say sings?”—­J.  Flint’s Gram., p. 12.  “In the sentence, ‘this is the pen which John made,’ what word do I say John made?”—­Ibid. “‘That we fall into no sin:’  no, an adverb used idiomatically, instead of we do not fall into any sin.”—­Blair’s Gram., p. 54. “‘That all our doings may be ordered by thy governance:’  all, a pronoun used for the whole.”—­Ibid. “’Let him be made to study.’  What causes the sign to to be expressed before study? Its being used in the passive voice after be made.”—­Sanborn’s Gram., p. 145.  “The following Verbs have neither Preter-Tense nor Passive-participle, viz.  Cast, cut, cost, shut, let, bid, shed, hurt, hit, put, &c.”—­ Buchanan’s Gram., p. 60.  “The agreement, which every word has with the others in person, gender, and case, is called CONCORD; and that power which one person of speech has over another, in respect to ruling its case, mood, or tense, is called GOVERNMENT.”—­Bucke’s Classical Gram., p. 83.  “The word ticks tells what the noun watch does.”—­ Sanborn’s Gram., p. 15. “Breve ([~]) marks a short vowel or syllable, and the dash (—­) a long.”—­Bullions, E. Gram., p. 157; Lennie, 137.  “Charles, you, by your diligence, make easy work of the task given you by your preceptor.’  The first you is used in the nom. poss. and obj. case.”—­Kirkham’s Gram., p. 103. “Ouy in bouy is a proper tripthong. Eau in flambeau is an