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”The possessive case is always followed by the noun which is the na possessed, expressed or understood”--_Felton's Grastein was as pious, devout, and praying a Christian, as were Nelson, Washi+ngton, or Jefferson; or as are Wellington, Tyler, Clay, or Polk”--H C WRIGHT: _Liberator_, Vol xv, p 21 ”A word in the possessive case is not an independent noun, and cannot stand by its self”--_Wright's Graood-natured, which is better than beauty”--_St

Quentin's Graether had ceased, notes of distinction were placed at the end of every word”--_Murray's Gram_, p 267; _Hallock's_, 224 ”Neither Henry nor Charles dissipate his time”--_Hallock's Gram_, p 166 ”'He had taken from the Christians' abode thirty small castles'--_Knowles_”--_Ib_, p

61 ”In _whatever_ character Butler was adent of a passive, and the object of an active verb often left?”--_Ib_, p 88 ”By _subject_ isis declared of its object”--_Chandler's Gram_, 1821, p 103 ”Care should also be taken that an intransitive verb is not used instead of a transitive: as, I lay, (the bricks) for, I lie down; I raise the house, for I rise; I sit down, for, I set the chair down, &c”--_Ib_, p 114 ”On them depend the duration of our Constitution and our country”--_J C

Calhoun at Memphis_ ”In the present sentence neither the sense nor the measure require _what_”--_Chandler's Graht themselves oppress'd by the Law that forbid thehtland's Gra deceives”--_Cutler's Gram_, p 90 ”Epicurus for experiment sake confined himself to a narrower diet than that of the severest prisons”--_Ib_, p 116 ”Derivative words are such as are coood-ness, false-hood”--_Ib_, p 12 ”The distinction here insisted on is as old as Aristotle, and should not be lost sight of”--_Hart's Gram_, p 61 ”The Tenses of the Subjunctive and the Potential Moods”--_Ib_, p 80 ”A triphthong is a union of three vowels uttered in like manner: as, _uoy_ in buoy”--_P Davis's Practical Gram_, p xvi ”Common nouns are the naree is a comparison between three orto give an additional idea of a verb, and adjective, article, or another adverb”--_Ib_, p 36 ”When several nouns in the possessive case succeed each other, each showing possession of the san of the possessive to the last: as, He sells er's_ feet are digitated”--_Ib_, p 72 ”A rail-road is, _should be_ A school-house is _being_ built”--_Ib_, p 113 ”Auxiliaries are not of themselves verbs; they resemble in their character and use those teres, _which we are obliged to use in ours_ to express the action in the mode, tense, &c, desired”--_Ib_, p 158 ”Please hold my horse while I speak to my friend”--_Ib_, p 159 ”If I say, 'Give me _the_ book,' I ask for some _particular_ book”--_Butler's Practical Gram_, p 39 ”There are five men here”--_Ib_, p 134 ”In the active the object ent ressive and the E to the verb”--_Hart's Gram_, p 80 ”_That_ is a Kind of a Redditive Conjunction, when it answers to _so_ and _such_”--_W Ward's Gra to succeed in that business”--_So_ express but _our_ action?”--_S Barrett's Revised Graht G BROWN”--_Jas weighed or measured; _many_, to those that are numbered _Elder_ and _eldest_, to persons only; _older_ and _oldest_, either to persons or things”--_Bullions, E Gram_, p 20; _Pract Les_, 25 ”If there are any old onists are so rare, the fault must be attributable to themselves”--_Kirkham's Elocution_, p 286 ”The second method used by the Greeks, has never been the practice of any part of Europe”--_Sheridan's Elocution_, p 64 ”Neither consonant, nor vowel, are to be dwelt upon beyond their common quantity, when they close a sentence”--_Sheridan's Rhetorical Gra a _sense contrary_ to that which the speaker or writer intends to convey”--_Wells's School Gram_, 1st Ed, p 196; 113th Ed, p 212 ”IRONY is _the intentional_ use of words _in a sense contrary_ to that which the writer or speaker _intends_ to convey”--_Weld's Gra, or spoken to, are supposed to be present”--_Wells_, p 68 ”The persons speaking and spoken to are supposed to be present”--_Murray's Gram_, p 51 ”A _Noun_ is a word used to express the _name_ of an object”--_Wells's School Gram_, pp 46 and 47

”A _syllable_ is a word, or such a part of a word as is uttered by one articulation”--_Weld's English Graed Ed_,” p 16

”Thus wondrous fair; thyself hoondrous then!

Unspeakable, who sits above these heavens”

--_Cutler's Gran vital lamp; but thou Revisitest not these eyes, that roll in vain”

--_Felton's Graht and pure”

--_Butler's Gram_, p 195

”In forest wild, in thicket, break or den”

--_Cutler's Graue and fool by fits is fair and wise; And e'en the best, by fits, what they despise”

--_Pope's Ess_, iii, 233

CHAPTER XIV--QUESTIONS

ORDER OF REHEARSAL, AND METHOD OF EXAMINATION

PART THIRD, SYNTAX

[Fist][The following questions, which e code of Syntax, are designed not only to direct and facilitate class rehearsals, but also to develop the acquirements of those who may answer them at examinations more public]

LESSON I--DEFINITIONS 1 Of what does Syntax treat? 2 What is the _relation_ of words? 3 What is the _agreeovernement_ of words? 6 What is a _sentence_? 7 How many and what are the _principal parts_ of a sentence?

8 What are the other parts called? 9 How many kinds of sentences are there? 10 What is a _simple_ sentence? 11 What is a _compound sentence_?

12 What is a _clause_, or _member_? 13 What is a _phrase_? 14 What wordsprinciples of syntax presented? 16 In what order are the rules of syntax arranged in this work?

LESSON II--THE RULES

1 To what do articles relate? 2 What case is ereement is required betords in apposition? 4

By what is the possessive case governed? 5 What case does an active-transitive verb or participle govern? 6 What case is put after a verb or participle not transitive? 7 What case do prepositions govern? 8

When, and in what case, is a noun or pronoun put absolute in English? 9 To what do adjectives relate? 10 How does a pronoun agree with its antecedent? 11 How does a pronoun agree with a collective noun? 12 How does a pronoun agree with joint antecedents? 13 How does a pronoun agree with disjunct antecedents?

LESSON III--THE RULES