than one were concerned in the business, does not yet appear.”  Or:  “How many were concerned in the business, does not yet appear.”—­L.  Murray cor. “And that, consequently, the verb or pronoun agreeing with it, can never with propriety be used in the plural number.”—­Id. et al. cor. “A second help may be, frequent and free converse with others of your own sex who are like minded.”—­Wesley cor. “Four of the semivowels, namely, l, m, n, and r, are termed LIQUIDS, on account of the fluency of their sounds.”—­See Brown’s Inst., p. 16.  “Some conjunctions are used in pairs, so that one answers to an other, as its regular correspondent.”—­Lowth et al. cor. “The mutes are those consonants whose sounds cannot be protracted; the semivowels have imperfect sounds of their own, which can be continued at pleasure.”—­Murray et al. cor. “HE and SHE are sometimes used as nouns, and, as such, are regularly declined:  as, ’The hes in birds.’—­BACON.  ’The shes of Italy.’—­SHAK.”—­Churchill cor. “The separation of a preposition from the word which it governs, is [censured by some writers, as being improper.”—­C.  Adams cor. “The word WHOSE, according to some critics, should be restricted to persons; but good writers still occasionally use it with reference to things.”—­Priestley et al. cor. “New and surpassing wonders present themselves to our view.”—­Sherlock cor. “The degrees of comparison are often inaccurately applied and construed.”—­Alger’s Murray.  Or:  “Passages are often found in which the degrees of comparison have not an accurate construction.”—­Campbell cor.; also Murray et al.  “The sign of possession is placed too far from the name, to form a construction that is either perspicuous or agreeable.”—­L.  Murray cor. “The simple tenses are those which are formed by the principal verb without an auxiliary.”—­Id. “The more intimate men are, the more they affect one another’s happiness.”—­Id. “This is the machine that he invented.”—­Nixon cor. “To give this sentence the interrogative form, we must express it thus.”  Or:  “This sentence, to have the interrogative form, should be expressed thus.”—­L.  Murray cor. “Never employ words that are susceptible of a sense different from that which you intend to convey.”—­Hiley cor. “Sixty pages are occupied in explaining what, according to the ordinary method, would not require more than ten or twelve.”—­Id. “The participle in ing always expresses action, suffering, or being, as continuing, or in progress.”—­Bullions cor. “The first participle of all active verbs,