LESSON XXIV.—­VERBS.

47.  What is the syntax of the verb, when one of its nominatives is expressed, and an other or others implied? 48.  What is the syntax of the verb, when there are nominatives connected by as? 49.  What is the construction when two nominatives are connected by as well as, but, or save? 50.  Can words connected by with be properly used as joint nominatives? 51.  Does the analogy of other languages with ours prove any thing on this point? 52.  What does Cobbett say about with put for and? 53.  What is the construction of such expressions as this:  “A torch, snuff and all, goes out in a moment?” 54.  Does our rule for the verb and disjunct nominatives derive confirmation from the Latin and Greek syntax? 55.  Why do collective nouns singular, when connected by or or nor, admit of a plural verb? 56.  In the expression, “I, thou, or he, may affirm,” of what person and number is the verb? 57.  Who says, “the verb agrees with the last nominative?” 58.  What authors prefer “the nearest person,” and “the plural number?” 59.  What authors prefer “the nearest nominative, whether singular or plural?” 60.  What author declares it improper ever to connect by or or nor any nominatives that require different forms of the verb? 61.  What is Cobbett’s “clear principle” on this head? 62.  Can a zeugma of the verb be proved to be right, in spite of these authorities? 63.  When a verb has nominatives of different persons or numbers, connected by or or nor, with which of them does it commonly agree? 64.  When does it agree with the remoter nominative? 65.  When a noun is implied in an adjective of a different number, which word is regarded in the formation of the verb? 66.  What is remarked concerning the place of the pronoun of the first person singular? 67.  When verbs are connected by and, or, or nor, do they necessarily agree with the same nominative? 68.  Why is the thirteenth rule of the author’s Institutes and First Lines not retained as a rule in this work? 69.  Are verbs often connected without agreeing in mood, tense, and form?

LESSON XXV.—­VERBS.

70.  What particular convenience do we find in having most of our tenses composed of separable words? 71.  Is the connecting of verbs elliptically, or by parts, anything peculiar to our language? 72.  What faults appear in the teaching of our grammarians concerning do used as a “substitute for other verbs?” 73.  What notions have been entertained concerning the word to as used before the infinitive verb? 74.  How does Dr. Ash parse to before the infinitive? 75.  What grammarians have taught that the preposition to governs the infinitive mood? 76.  Does Lowth agree with Murray in the anomaly of supposing to