irregular.”—­Churchill’s Gram., p. 112.  “When two or more nouns succeed each other in the possessive case.”—­Farnum’s Gram., 2d Ed., pp. 20 and 63.  “When several short sentences succeed each other.”—­Ib., p. 113.  “Words are divided into ten Classes, and are called PARTS OF SPEECH.”—­Ainsworth’s Gram., p. 8.  “A Passive Verb has its agent or doer always in the objective case, and is governed by a preposition.”—­Ib., p. 40.  “I am surprised at your negligent attention.” Ib., p. 43.  “SINGULAR:  Thou lovest or you love. You has always a plural verb.”—­Bullions, E. Gram., p. 43.  “How do you know that love is the first person? Ans.  Because we is the first personal pronoun.”—­Id., ib., p. 47; Lennie’s Gram., p. 26.  “The lowing herd wind slowly round the lea.”—­Bullions, E. Gram., p. 96.  “Iambic verses have every second, fourth, and other even syllables accented.”—­Ib., p. 170.  “Contractions are often made in poetry, which are not allowable in prose.”—­Ib., p. 179.  “Yet to their general’s voice they all obeyed.”—­Ib., p. 179.  “It never presents to his mind but one new subject at the same time.”—­Felton’s Gram., 1st edition, p. 6.  “When the name of a quality is abstracted, that is separated from its substance, it is called an abstract noun.”—­Ib., p. 9.  “Nouns are in the first person when speaking.”—­Ib., p. 9.  “Which of the two brothers are graduates?”—­Hallock’s Gram., p. 59.  “I am a linen draper bold, as you and all the world doth know.”—­Ib., p. 60.  “O the bliss, the pain of dying!”—­Ib., p. 127.  “This do; take you censers, Korah, and all his company.”—­Numbers, xvi, 6.  “There are two participles,—­the present and perfect; as, reading, having read.  Transitive verbs have an active and passive participle.  Examples:  ACTIVE, Present, Loving; Perfect, Having loved:  PASSIVE, Present, Loved or being loved; Perfect, Having been loved.”—­S.  S. Greene’s Analysis, 1st Ed., p. 225.

   “O heav’n, in my connubial hour decree
    This man my spouse, or such a spouse as he.”—­Pope.

LESSON IV.—­VARIOUS RULES.

“The Past Tenses represent a conditional past fact or event, and of which the speaker is uncertain.”—­Hiley’s Gram., p. 89.  “Care also should be taken that they are not introduced too abundantly.”—­Ib., p. 134.  “Till they are become familiar to the mind.”—­Ib., Pref., p. v.  “When once a particular arrangement and phraseology are become familiar to the mind.”—­Ib., p. vii.  “I have furnished the student with the plainest and most practical directions which I could devise.”—­Ib., p. xiv.  “When you are become conversant with the Rules of Grammar, you will then be qualified to commence