son, were in town yesterday.”—­Lennie’s Gram., p. 142.  “She with her sisters are well.”—­Ib., p. 143.  “His purse, with its contents, were abstracted from his pocket.”—­Ib., p. 143.  “The great constitutional feature of this institution being, that directly the acrimony of the last election is over, the acrimony of the next begins.”—­Dickens’s Notes, p. 27.  “His disregarding his parents’ advice has brought him into disgrace.”—­Farnum’s Pract.  Gram., 2d Ed., p. 19.  “Error:  Can you tell me the reason of his father making that remark?—­Ib., p. 93.  Cor.:  Can you tell me the reason of his father’s making that remark?”—­See Farnum’s Gram., Rule 12th. p. 76.  “Error:  What is the reason of our teacher detaining us so long?—­Ib., p. 76.  Cor.:  What is the reason of our teacher’s detaining us so long?”—­See Ib. “Error:  I am certain of the boy having said so.  Correction:  I am certain of the boy’s having said so.”—­Exercises in Farnum’s Gram., p. 76. “Which means any thing or things before-named; and that may represent any person or persons, thing or things, which have been speaking, spoken to or spoken of.”—­Dr. Perley’s Gram., p. 9.  “A certain number of syllables connected, form a foot.  They are called feet, because it is by their aid that the voice, as it were, steps along.”—­L.  Murray’s Gram., p. 252; C.  Adams’s, 121.  “Asking questions with a principal verb—­as, Teach I?  Burns he, &c. are barbarisms, and carefully to be avoided.”—­Alex.  Murray’s Gram., p. 122.  “Tell whether the 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 22d, or 23d Rules are to be used, and repeat the Rule.”—­Parker and Fox’s Gram., Part I, p. 4.  “The resolution was adopted without much deliberation, which caused great dissatisfaction.”—­Ib., p. 71.  “The man is now taken much notice of by the people thereabouts.”—­Edward’s First Lessons in Gram., p. 42.  “The sand prevents their sticking to one another.”—­Ib., p. 84.  “Defective Verbs are those which are used only in some of their moods and tenses.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 108; Guy’s, 42; Russell’s, 46; Bacon’s, 42; Frost’s, 40; Alger’s, 47; S.  Putnam’s, 47; Goldsbury’s, 54; Felton’s, 59; and others.  “Defective verbs are those which want some of their moods and tenses.”—­Lennie’s Gram., p. 47; Bullions, E. Gram., 65; Practical Lessons, 75.  “Defective Verbs want some of their parts.”—­Bullions, Lat.  Gram., p. 78.  “A Defective verb is one that wants some of its parts.”—­Bullions, Analyt. and Pract.  Gram., 1849, p. 101.  “To the irregular verbs are to be added the defective; which are not only for the most part irregular, but also wanting in some of their parts.”—­Lowth’s Gram., p. 59.  “To the irregular verbs are to be added the defective; which are not only wanting in some of their parts, but are, when inflected,