cor. (7.) “There is also an impropriety in using both the indicative and the subjunctive mood with the same conjunction; as, ‘If a man have a hundred sheep, and one of them is gone astray,’ &c. [This is Merchant’s perversion of the text.  It should be, ’and one of them go astray:’  or, ‘be gone astray,’ as in Matt., xviii. 12.]”—­Id. (8.) “The rising series of contrasts conveys transcendent dignity and energy to the conclusion.”—­Jamieson cor. (9.) “A groan or a shriek is instantly understood, as a language extorted by distress, a natural language which conveys a meaning that words are not adequate to express.  A groan or a shriek speaks to the ear with a far more thrilling effect than words:  yet even this natural language of distress may be counterfeited by art.”—­Dr. Porter cor. (10.) “If these words [book and pen] cannot be put together in such a way as will constitute plurality, then they cannot be ‘these words;’ and then, also, one and one cannot be two.”—­James Brown cor. (11.) “Nor can the real pen and the real book be added or counted together in words, in such a manner as will not constitute plurality in grammar.”—­Id. (12.) “Our is a personal pronoun, of the possessive case.  Murray does not decline it.”—­Mur. cor. (13.) “This and that, and their plurals these and those, are often opposed to each other in a sentence.  When this or that is used alone, i.e., without contrast, this is applied to what is present or near; that, to what is absent or distant.”—­Buchanan cor. (14.) “Active and neuter verbs may be conjugated by adding their imperfect participle to the auxiliary verb be, through all its variations.”—­“Be is an auxiliary whenever it is placed before either the perfect or the imperfect participle of an other verb; but, in every other situation, it is a principal verb.”—­Kirkham cor. (15.) “A verb in the imperative mood is almost always of the second person.”—­“The verbs, according to a foreign idiom, or the poet’s license, are used in the imperative, agreeing with a nominative of the first or third person.”—­Id. (16.) “A personal pronoun, is a pronoun that shows, by its form, of what person it is.”—­“Pronouns of the first person do not disagree in person with the nouns they represent.”—­Id. (17.) “Nouns have three cases; the nominative, the possessive, and the objective.”—­“Personal pronouns have, like nouns, three cases; the nominative, the possessive, and the objective.”—­Beck cor. (18.) “In many instances the preposition suffers a change and becomes an adverb by its mere application.”—­L.