and the Objective”—­Hendrick’s Gram., p. 7. (8.) “Nouns have three cases, the nominative, the possessive, and the objective.”—­ Kirkham’s Gram., p. 41. (9.) “In English, nouns have three cases—­the nominative, the possessive, and the objective.”—­R.  C. Smith’s New Gram., p. 47. (10.) “Grammar is divided into four parts, namely, ORTHOGRAPHY, ETYMOLOGY, SYNTAX, PROSODY.”—­Ib., p. 41. (11) “It is divided into four parts, viz.  ORTHOGRAPHY, ETYMOLOGY, SYNTAX, and PROSODY.”—­L.  Murray’s Grammars all; T. Smith’s Gram., p. 5. (12.) “It is divided into four parts:  viz.  Orthography—­Etymology—­Syntax—­Prosody.”—­Bucke’s Gram., p. 3. (13.) “It is divided into four parts, namely, Orthography.  Etymology, Syntax and Prosody.”—­Day’s Gram., p. 5. (14.) “It is divided into four parts:  viz. Orthography, Etymology, Syntax and Prosody.”—­Hendrick’s Gram., p. 11. (15.) “Grammar is divided into four parts:  viz.  Orthography, Etymology.  Syntax and Prosody.”—­Chandler’s Gram., p, 13. (16.) “It is divided into four parts:  Orthography, Etymology, Syntax, and Prosody.”—­Cooper’s Pl. and Pract.  Gram., p. 1; Frost’s Pract.  Gram., 19. (17.) “English grammar has been usually divided into four parts, viz:  Orthography, Etymology, Syntax and Prosody.”—­Nutting’s Gram., p. 13. (18.) “Temperance leads to happiness, intemperance to misery.”—­Hiley’s Gram., p. 137 Hart’s, 180. (19.) “A friend exaggerates a man’s virtues, an enemy his crimes.”—­Hiley’s Gram., p. 137 (20.) “A friend exaggerates a man’s virtues:  an enemy his crimes.”—­Murray’s Gram., 8vo., p. 325 (21.) “Many writers use a plural noun after the second of two numeral adjectives, thus, ‘The first and second pages are torn.’”—­Bullions, E. Gram., 5th Ed., p. 145 (22.) “Of these, the Latin has six, the Greek, five, the German, four, the Saxon, six, the French, three, &c.”—­Id., ib., p. 196.

   “In (ing) it ends, when doing is express’d,
    In d, t, n, when suffering’s confess’d.”
        —­Brightland’s Gram., p. 93.

MIXED EXAMPLES OF ERROR.

“In old books i is often used for j, v for u, vv for w, and ii or ij for y.”—­Hart’s E. Gram., p. 22.  “The forming of letters into words and syllables is also called Spelling.”—­Ib., p. 21.  “Labials are formed chiefly by the lips, dentals by the teeth, palatals by the palate, gutturals by the throat, nasals by the nose, and linguals by the tongue.”—­Ib., p. 25.  “The labials are p, b, f, v; the dentals t, d, s, z; the palatals g soft and j; the gutturals k, q, and c and g hard; the nasals m and n;