You has always a plural verb.”—
Bullions
cor. “How do you know that love is
of
the first person? Ans. Because
we, the
pronoun, is
of the first
person.”—
Id.
and Lennie cor. “The lowing herd
winds
slowly
o’er the lea.”—
Gray’s
Elegy, l. 2:
Bullions cor. “Iambic
verses have
their second, fourth, and other
even syllables accented.”—
Bullions
cor. “Contractions
that are not allowable
in prose, are often made in poetry.”—
Id.
“Yet to their general’s voice they
soon
obey’d”—
Milton.
“It never presents to his mind
more than
one new subject at the same time.”—
Felton
cor. “An
abstract noun is the name
of some particular quality considered apart from its
substance.”—
Brown’s Inst.
of E. Gram., p. 32. “
A noun is of
the first person when
it denotes the speaker.”—
Felton
cor. “Which of the two brothers
is a graduate?”—
Hallock cor. “I am a linen-draper bold,
As all the world doth know.”—
Cowper.
“
Oh the
pain, the
bliss
of dying!”—
Pope. “This
do; take
to you censers,
thou, Korah,
and all
thy company.”—
Bible
cor. “There are
three participles;
the
imperfect, the perfect, and
the preperfect:
as, reading, read, having read. Transitive verbs
have an
active and passive participle:
that is, their form for the perfect is sometimes active,
and sometimes passive; as,
read, or
loved.”—
S.
S. Greene cor.
“O Heav’n, in
my connubial hour decree
My spouse this man,
or such a man as he.”—Pope
cor.
LESSON IV.—UNDER VARIOUS RULES.
“The past tenses (of Hiley’s subjunctive
mood) represent conditional past facts or events,
of which the speaker is uncertain.”—Hiley
cor. “Care also should be taken that they
be not introduced too abundantly.”—Id.
“Till they have become familiar to the
mind.” Or: “Till they become
familiar to the mind.”—Id.
“When once a particular arrangement and phraseology
have become familiar to the mind.”—Id.
“I have furnished the student with the plainest
and most practical directions that I could
devise.”—Id. “When you
are conversant with the Rules of Grammar, you will
be qualified to commence the study of Style.”—Id.
“C before e, i, or y, always has a soft
sound, like s.”—L.
Murray cor. “G before e, i, or
y, is generally soft; as in genius, ginger,
Egypt.”—Id. “C
before e, i, or y, always sounds soft, like
s.”—Hiley cor. “G
is generally soft before e, i, or y;
as in genius, ginger, Egypt.”—Id.
“A perfect alphabet must always contain just