in number and person? 25.  If the nominative is a collective noun conveying the idea of plurality, must the verb always be plural? 26.  If there are two or more nominatives connected by and, must the verb always be plural? 21.  If there are nominatives connected by or or nor, is the verb always to refer to them separately? 28.  Does the preposition to before the infinitive always govern the verb? 29.  Can the preposition to govern or precede any other mood than the infinitive? 30.  Is the preposition to “understood” after bid, dare, feel, and so forth, where it is “superfluous and improper?” 31.  How many and what exceptions are there to rule 20th, concerning participles? 32.  How many and what exceptions are there to the rule for adverbs? 33.  How many and what exceptions are there to the rule for conjunctions? 34.  How many and what exceptions are there to the rule for prepositions? 35.  Is there any exception to the 24th rule, concerning interjections?

LESSON XI.—­THE OBSERVATIONS.

1.  How many of the ten parts of speech in English are in general incapable of any agreement? 2.  Can there be a syntactical relation of words without either agreement or government? 3.  Is there ever any needful agreement between unrelated words? 4.  Is the mere relation of words according to the sense an element of much importance in English syntax? 5.  What parts of speech have no other syntactical property than that of simple relation? 6.  What rules of relation are commonly found in grammars? 7.  Of what parts is syntax commonly said to consist? 8.  Is it common to find in grammars, the rules of syntax well adapted to their purpose? 9.  Can you specify some that appear to be faulty? 10.  Wherein consists the truth of grammatical doctrine, and how can one judge of what others teach? 11.  Do those who speak of syntax as being divided into two parts, Concord and Government, commonly adhere to such division? 12.  What false concords and false governments are cited in Obs. 7th of the first chapter? 13.  Is it often expedient to join in the same rule such principles as must always be applied separately? 14.  When one can condense several different principles into one rule, is it not expedient to do so? 15.  Is it ever convenient to have one and the same rule applicable to different parts of speech? 16.  Is it ever convenient to have rules divided into parts, so as to be double or triple in their form? 17.  What instance of extravagant innovation is given in Obs. 12th of the first chapter?

LESSON XII.—­THE OBSERVATIONS.