(10.) “I could see, feel, taste, and smell the rose.”—­Sanborn cor. (11.) “The vowels iou are sometimes pronounced distinctly in two syllables; as in various, abstemious; but not in bilious.”—­Murray and Walker cor. (12.) “The diphthong aa generally sounds like a short; as in Balaam, Canaan, Isaac; in Baael and Gaael, we make no diphthong.”—­L.  Mur. cor. (13.) “Participles cannot be said to be ‘governed by the article;’ for any participle, with an article before it, becomes a substantive, or an adjective used substantively:  as, the learning, the learned.”—­Id. (14.) “From words ending with y preceded by a consonant, we form the plurals of nouns, the persons of verbs, agent nouns, perfect participles, comparatives, and superlatives, by changing the y into i, and adding es, ed, er, eth, or est.”—­Walker, Murray, et al. cor. (15.) “But y preceded by a vowel, remains unchanged, in the derivatives above named; as, boy, boys.”—­L.  Murray et al. cor. (16.) “But when the final y is preceded by a vowel, it remains unchanged before an additional syllable; as, coy, coyly.”—­Iid. (17.) “But y preceded by a vowel, remains unchanged, in almost all instances; as, coy, coyly.”—­Kirkham cor. (18.) “Sentences are of two kinds, simple and compound.”—­Wright cor. (19.) “The neuter pronoun it may be employed to introduce a nominative of any person, number, or gender:  as, ’It is he:’—­’It is she;’—­’It is they;’—­’It is the land.’”—­Bucke cor. (20 and 21.) “It is and it was, are always singular; but they may introduce words of a plural construction:  as, ‘It was the heretics that first began to rail.’  SMOLLETT.”—­Merchant cor.; also Priestley et al. (22.) “W and y, as consonants, have each of them one sound.”—­Town cor. (23.) “The word as is frequently a relative pronoun.”—­Bucke cor. (24.) “From a series of clauses, the conjunction may sometimes be omitted with propriety.”—­Merchant cor. (25.) “If, however, the two members are very closely connected, the comma is unnecessary; as, ’Revelation tells us how we may attain happiness.’”—­L.  Murray et al. cor. (26-27.) “The mind has difficulty in taking effectually, in quick succession, so many different views of the same object.”—­Dr. Blair cor.; also L.  Mur. (28.) “Pronominal adjectives are a kind of definitives, which may either accompany their nouns, or represent them understood.”—­Kirkham cor. (29.) “When the nominative or antecedent is a collective noun conveying the idea of plurality,