“References are often marked by letters and figures.”—­Gould’s Adam’s Gram., p. 283. (1.) “A Conjunction is a word which joins words and sentences together.”—­Lennie’s E. Gram., p. 51; Bullions’s, 70; Brace’s, 57. (2.) “A conjunction is used to connect words and sentences together.”—­Smith’s New Gram., p. 37. (3.) “A conjunction is used to connect words and sentences.”—­Maunders Gram., p. 1. (4.) “Conjunctions are words used to join words and sentences.”—­Wilcox’s Gram., p. 3. (5.) “A Conjunction is a word used to connect words and sentences.”—­ M’Culloch’s Gram., p. 36; Hart’s, 92; Day’s, 10. (6.) “A Conjunction joins words and sentences together.”—­Mackintosh’s Gram., p. 115; Hiley’s, 10 and 53. (7.) “The Conjunction joins words and sentences together.”—­L.  Murray’s Gram., 2d Edition, p. 28. (8.) “Conjunctions connect words and sentences to each other.”—­Wright’s Gram., p. 35. (9.) “Conjunctions connect words and sentences.”—­Wilcox’s Gram., p. 80; Wells’s, 1st Ed., 159 and 168. (10.) “The conjunction is a part of speech used to connect words and sentences.”—­Weld’s Gram., 2d Ed., p. 49. (11.) “A conjunction is a word used to connect words and sentences together.”—­ Fowler’s E. Gram., Sec.329. (12.) “Connectives are words which unite words and sentences in construction.”—­Webster’s Philos.  Gram., p. 123; Improved Gram., 81.  “English Grammar is miserably taught in our district schools; the teachers know but little or nothing about it.”—­Taylor’s District School, p. 48.  “Least, instead of preventing, you draw on Diseases.”—­Locke, on Ed., p. 40.  “The definite article the is frequently applied to adverbs in the comparative and superlative degree.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 33; Ingersoll’s, 33; Lennie’s, 6; Bullions’s, 8; Fisk’s, 53, and others.  “When nouns naturally neuter are converted into masculine and feminine.”—­Murray’s Gram., 8vo, p. 38.  “This form of the perfect tense represents an action completely past, and often at no great distance, but not specified.”—­Ib., p. 74.  “The Conjunction Copulative serves to connect or to continue a sentence, by expressing an addition, a supposition, a cause, &c.”—­Ib., p. 123.  “The Conjunction Disjunctive serves, not only to connect and continue the sentence, but also to express opposition of meaning in different degrees.”—­Ib., p. 123.  “Whether we open the volumes of our divines, philosophers, historians, or artists, we shall find that they abound with all the terms necessary to communicate their observations and discoveries.”—­Ib., p. 138.  “When a disjunctive occurs between a singular noun, or pronoun, and a plural one, the verb is made to agree with the plural noun and pronoun.”—­Ib., p. 152:  R.  G. Smith, Alger, Gomly, Merchant, Picket, et al. “Pronouns must always agree