“Pronouns agree with the nouns for which they stand, in gender, number, and person.”—­Butler and Bullions cor. “In the first two examples, the antecedent is person, or something equivalent; in the last [one], it is thing.”—­N.  Butler cor. “In what character he was admitted, is unknown.”—­Id. “To what place he was going, is not known.”—­Id. “In the preceding examples, John, Caesar, and James, are the subjects.”—­Id. “Yes is generally used to denote assent, in answer to a question.”—­Id. “That, in its origin, is the passive participle of the Anglo-Saxon verb thean, [thegan, thicgan, thicgean, or thigan,] to take.”—­Id. “But, in all these sentences, as and so are adverbs.”—­Id. “After an interjection or an exclamatory sentence, is usually placed the mark of exclamation.”—­D.  Blair cor. “Intransitive verbs, from their nature, can have no distinction of voice.”—­Bullions cor. “To the inflection of verbs, belong Voices, Moods, Tenses, Numbers, and Persons.”—­Id. “As and so, in the antecedent member of a comparison, are properly Adverbs.”  Better:  “As OR so, in the antecedent member of a comparison, is properly an adverb.”—­Id. “In the following Exercise, point out the words in apposition.”—­Id. “In the following Exercise, point out the noun or pronoun denoting the possessor.”—­Id. “Its is not found in the Bible, except by misprint.”—­Brown’s Institutes, p. 49.  “No one’s interest is concerned, except mine.”—­Hallock cor. “In most of the modern languages, there are four concords.”—­St. Quentin cor. “In illustration of these remarks, let us suppose a case.”—­Hart cor. “On the right management of the emphasis, depends the life of pronunciation.”—­J.  S. Hart and L. Murray cor. See Blair’s Rhet., p. 330.

UNDER RULE XV.—­OF INTERJECTIONS.

“Behold, he is in the desert.”—­Friend’s Bible.  “And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my Lord.”—­Alger’s Bible.  “Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.”—­Friend’s Bible, and Alger’s.  “Behold, I come quickly.”—­Rev., xxii, 7.  “Lo, I am with you always.”—­Day cor. “And, lo, I am with you alway.”—­Alger’s Bible:  Day cor.; also Scott and Bruce.  “Ha, ha, ha; how laughable that is!”—­Bullions cor. “Interjections of laughter; ha, ha, Ha.”—­Wright cor.

UNDER RULE XVI.—­OF WORDS REPEATED.

“Lend, lend your wings!” &c.—­Pope. “To bed, to bed, to bed.  There is a knocking at the gate.  Come, come, come.  What is done, cannot be undone.  To bed, to bed, to bed.”—­SHAKSPEARE:  Burghs Speaker, p. 130.  “I will roar, that the duke shall cry, Encore, encore, let him roar, let him roar, once more, once more.”—­Id., ib., p. 136.