Bible, and Smith’s.  “Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion?”—­Smiths Bible.  “The infinitive sometimes performs the office of a nominative case, as ’To enjoy is to obey.’—­POPE.”—­Cutler’s Gram., p. 62.  “The plural is commonly formed by adding s to the singular, as book, books.”—­Bullions, E. Gram., p. 12.  “As ’I were to blame, if I did it.’”—­Smart’s Accidence, p. 16.

   “Or if it be thy will and pleasure
    Direct my plough to find a treasure.”—­Hiley’s Gram., p. 124.

    “Or if it be thy will and pleasure,
    Direct my plough to find a treasure.”—­Hart’s Gram., p. 185.

UNDER RULE XIV.—­OF PREPOSITIONS.

“Pronouns agree with the nouns for which they stand in gender, number, and person.”—­Butler’s Practical Gram., pp. 141 and 148; Bullions’s Analyt. and Pract.  Gram., p. 150.

[FORMULE.—­Not proper, because the preposition in has not the comma before it, as the text requires.  But, according to Rule 14th, “Prepositions and their objects, when they break the connexion of a simple sentence, or when they do not closely follow the words on which they depend, are generally set off by the comma.”  Therefore, a comma should be here inserted; thus, “Pronouns agree with the nouns for which they stand, in gender, number, and person.”  Or the words may be transposed, and the comma set before with; thus, “Pronouns agree in gender, number, and person, with the nouns for which they stand.”]

“In the first two examples the antecedent is person, or something equivalent; in the last it is thing.”—­Butler, ib., p. 53.  “In what character he was admitted is unknown.”—­Ib., p. 55.  “To what place he was going is not known.”—­Ib., p. 55.  “In the preceding examples John, Caesar, and James are the subjects.”—­Ib., p. 59. “Yes is generally used to denote assent in the answer to a question.”—­Ib., p. 120. “That in its origin is the passive participle of the Anglo-Saxon verb thean, to take”—­Ib., p. 127.  “But in all these sentences as and so are adverbs.”—­Ib., p. 127.  “After an interjection or exclamatory sentence is placed the mark of exclamation.”—­Blair’s Gram., p. 116.  “Intransitive verbs from their nature can have no distinction of voice.”—­Bullions, E. Gram., p. 30.  “To the inflection of verbs belong Voices, Moods, Tenses, Numbers, and Persons.”—­Id., ib., p. 33; Pract.  Lessons, p. 41. “As and so in the antecedent member of a comparison are properly adverbs.”—­Id., E. Gram., p. 113.  “In the following Exercise point out the words in apposition.”—­Id., P. Lessons, p. 103.  “In the following Exercise point out the noun or pronoun denoting the