either the male or female are common gender.”—­Perley’s Gram., p. 11.  “An Adjective expresses the kind, number, or quality of a noun.”—­Parker and Fox’s Gram., Part I, p. 9.  “There are six tenses; the Present, the Imperfect, the Perfect, the Pluperfect, the Future, and the Future Perfect tenses.”—­Ib., p. 18. “My refers to the first person singular, either gender. Our refers to the first person plural, either gender. Thy refers to the second person singular, either gender. Your refers to the second person plural, either gender. Their refers to the third person plural, either gender.”—­Parker and Fox’s Gram., Part II, p. 14.  “Good use, which for brevity’s sake, shall hereafter include reputable, national, and present use, is not always uniform in her decisions.”—­Jamieson’s Rhet., p. 44.  “Nouns which denote but one object are considered in the singular number.”—­Edward’s First Lessons in Gram., p. 35.  “If, therefore, the example of Jesus should be plead to authorize accepting an invitation to dine on the sabbath, it should be plead just as it was.”—­Barnes’s Notes:  on Luke, xiv, 1.  “The teacher will readily dictate what part may be omitted, the first time going through it.”—­Ainsworth’s Gram., p. 4.  “The contents of the following pages have been drawn chiefly, with various modifications, from the same source which has supplied most modern writers on this subject, viz.  LINDLEY MURRAY’S GRAMMAR.”—­Felton’s Gram., p. 3.  “The term person in grammar distinguishes between the speaker, the person or thing spoken to, and the person or thing spoken of.”—­Ib., p. 9.  “In my father’s garden grow the Maiden’s Blush and the Prince’ Feather.”—­Felton, ib., p. 15.  “A preposition is a word used to connect words with one another, and show the relation between them.  They generally stand before nouns and pronouns.”—­Ib., p. 60.  “Nouns or pronouns addressed are always either in the second person, singular or plural.”—­Hallock’s Gram., p. 54.  “The plural MEN not ending in s, is the reason for adding the apostrophie’s.”—­T.  Smith’s Gram., p. 19. “Pennies denote real coin; pence, their value in computation.”—­ Hazen’s Gram., p. 24.  “We commence, first, with letters, which is termed Orthography; secondly, with words, denominated Etymology; thirdly, with sentences, styled Syntax; fourthly, with orations and poems, called Prosody.”—­Barrett’s Gram., p. 22.  “Care must be taken, that sentences of proper construction and obvious import be not rendered obscure by the too free use of the ellipsis.”—­Felton’s Grammar, Stereotype Edition, p. 80.

EXERCISE XVIII.—­PROMISCUOUS.