Murray cor. (19.) “Some nouns are used only in the plural; as, ashes, literati, minutiae.  Some nouns have the same form in both numbers; as, sheep, deer, series, species.  Among the inferior parts of speech, there are some pairs or couples.”—­Rev. D. Blair cor. (20.) “Concerning the pronominal adjectives, that may, or may not, represent their nouns.”—­O.  B. Peirce cor. (21.) “The word a is in a few instances employed in the sense of a preposition; as, ’Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing;’ i. e., I go to fishing.”—­Weld cor. (22.) “So, too, verbs that are commonly transitive, are used intransitively, when they have no object.”—­Bullions cor.

    (23.) “When first young Maro, in his boundless mind,
          A work t’ outlast imperial Rome design’d.”—­Pope cor.

UNDER CRITICAL NOTE VIII.—­OF SENSELESS JUMBLING.

“There are two numbers, called the singular and the plural, which distinguish nouns as signifying either one thing, or many of the same kind.”—­Dr. H. Blair cor. “Here James Monroe is addressed, he is spoken to; the name is therefore a noun of the second person.”—­Mack cor. “The number and person of an English verb can seldom be ascertained until its nominative is known.”—­Emmons cor. “A noun of multitude, or a singular noun signifying many, may have a verb or a pronoun agreeing with it in either number; yet not without regard to the import of the noun, as conveying the idea of unity or plurality.”—­Lowth et al. cor. “To form the present tense and the past imperfect of our active or neuter verbs, the auxiliary do, and its preterit did, are sometimes used:  as, I do now love; I did then love.”—­Lowth cor. “If these be perfectly committed to memory, the learner will be able to take twenty lines for his second lesson, and the task may be increased each day.”—­Osborn cor. “Ch is generally sounded in the same manner as if it were tch:  as in Charles, church, cheerfulness, and cheese.  But, in Latin or Greek words, ch is pronounced like k:  as in Chaos, character, chorus, and chimera. And, in words derived from the French, ch is sounded like sh:  as in Chagrin, chicanery, and chaise.”—­Bucke cor. “Some nouns literally neuter, are made masculine or feminine by a figure of speech.”—­L.  Murray et al. cor. “In the English language, words may be classified under ten general heads:  the sorts, or chief classes, of words, are usually termed