have many, and others few or none? 9.  How many of them are under the rule for articles? 10.  How many of them refer to the construction of nouns? 11.  How many of them belong to the syntax of adjectives? 12.  How many of them treat of pronouns? 13.  How many of them regard the use of verbs? 14.  How many of them pertain to the syntax of participles? 15.  How many of them relate to the construction of adverbs? 16.  How many of them show the application of conjunctions? 17.  How many of them expose errors in the use of prepositions? 18.  How many of them speak of interjections?

[Now correct orally the examples of False Syntax placed under the several Rules and Notes; or so many texts under each head as the teacher may think sufficient.]

LESSON IX.—­THE EXCEPTIONS.

1.  In what exercise can there be occasion to cite and apply the Exceptions to the rules of syntax? 2.  Are there exceptions to all the rules, or to how many? 3.  Are there exceptions in reference to all the parts of speech, or to how many of the ten? 4.  Do articles always relate to nouns? 5.  Can the subject of a finite verb be in any other case than the nominative? 6.  Are words in apposition always supposed to be in the same case? 7.  Is the possessive case always governed by the name of the thing possessed? 8.  Can an active-transitive verb govern any other case than the objective? 9.  Can a verb or participle not transitive take any other case after it than that which precedes it? 10.  Can a preposition, in English, govern any other case than the objective? 11.  Can “the case absolute,” in English, be any other than the nominative? 12.  Does every adjective “belong to a substantive, expressed or understood,” as Murray avers? 13.  Can an adjective ever relate to any thing else than a noun or pronoun? 14.  Can an adjective ever be used without relation to any noun, pronoun, or other subject? 15.  Can an adjective ever be substituted for its kindred abstract noun? 16.  Are the person, number, and gender of a pronoun always determined by an antecedent? 17.  What pronoun is sometimes applied to animals so as not to distinguish their sex? 18.  What pronoun is sometimes an expletive, and sometimes used with reference to an infinitive following it?

LESSON X.—­THE EXCEPTIONS.

19.  Does a singular antecedent ever admit of a plural pronoun? 20.  Can a pronoun agree with its antecedent in one sense and not in an other? 21.  If the antecedent is a collective noun conveying the idea of plurality, must the pronoun always be plural? 22.  If there are two or more antecedents connected by and, must the pronoun always be plural? 23.  If there are antecedents connected by or or nor, is the pronoun always to take them separately? 24.  Must a finite verb always agree with its nominative