“Nouns have three cases; the Nominative, the Possessive, and the Objective.  The relations indicated by the cases of a noun, include three distinct ideas; viz., those of subject, object, and ownership.”—­Id.

“In speaking of animals that are of inferior size, or whose sex is not known or not regarded, we often treat them as without sex:  thus, we say of a cat, ‘It is treacherous;’ of an infant, ‘It is beautiful;’ of a deer, ‘It was killed.’”—­Id.

“When THIS and THAT, or THESE and THOSE, refer to a preceding sentence; THIS or THESE represents the latter member or term, and THAT or THOSE, the former.”—­Churchill cor.; and Lowth.

“The rearing of them became his first care; their fruit, his first food; and the marking of their kinds, his first knowledge.”—­N.  Butler cor.

“After the period used with abbreviations, we should employ other points, if the construction demands them; thus, after ‘Esq.,’ in the last example, there should be, besides the period, a comma.”—­Id.

“In the plural, the verb has the same form in all the persons; but still the principle in Rem. 5, under Rule iii, that the first or second person takes precedence, is applicable to verbs, in parsing.”—­Id.

“Rex and Tyrannus are of very different characters.  The one rules his people by laws to which they consent; the other, by his absolute will and power:  that government is called freedom; this, tyranny.”—­L.  Murray cor.

“A noun is the name of any person, place, or thing, that can be known or mentioned:  as, George, London, America, goodness, charity.”—­See Brown’s Institutes, p. 31.

“Etymology treats of the classification of words, their various modifications, and their derivation”—­P.  E. Day cor.

“To punctuate correctly, implies a thorough acquaintance with the meaning of words and phrases, as well as with all their corresponding connexions.”—­W.  Day cor.

“All objects that belong to neither the male nor the female kind, are said to be of the neuter gender, except certain things personified.”—­Weld cor twice.

“The Analysis of the Sounds in the English language, presented in the preceding statements, is sufficiently exact for the purpose in hand.  Those who wish to pursue the subject further, can consult Dr. Rush’s admirable work, ‘The Philosophy of the Human Voice.’”—­Fowler cor. “Nobody confounds the name of w or y with the sound of the letter, or with its phonetic import.”—­Id. [[Fist] This assertion is hardly true.  Strange as such a blunder is, it has actually occurred.  See, in Orthography, Obs. 5, on the Classes of the Letters, at p. 156.—­G.  B.]