singular noun or pronoun and a plural one, the verb is made to agree with the plural noun or pronoun.”—­Murray et al. cor. “Pronouns must always agree with their antecedents, or the nouns for which they stand, in gender and number.”—­Murray cor. “Neuter verbs do not express action, and consequently do not govern nouns or pronouns.”—­Id. “And the auxiliary of the past imperfect as well as of the present tense.”—­Id. “If this rule should not appear to apply to every example that has been produced, or to others which might be cited.”—­Id. “An emphatical pause is made, after something of peculiar moment has been said, on which we desire to fix the hearer’s attention.”—­Murray and Hart cor. “An imperfect[531] phrase contains no assertion, and does not amount to a proposition, or sentence.”—­Murray cor. “The word was in the mouth of every one, yet its meaning may still be a secret.”—­Id. “This word was in the mouth of every one, and yet, as to its precise and definite idea, this may still be a secret,”—­Harris cor. “It cannot be otherwise, because the French prosody differs from that of every other European language.”—­Smollet cor. “So gradually that it may be engrafted on a subtonic.”—­Rush cor. “Where the Chelsea and Malden bridges now are.”  Or better:  “Where the Chelsea or the Malden bridge now is.”—­Judge Parker cor. “Adverbs are words added to verbs, to participles, to adjectives, or to other adverbs.”—­R.  C. Smith cor. “I could not have told you who the hermit was, or on what mountain he lived.”—­Bucke cor. “AM and BE (for they are the same verb) naturally, or in themselves, signify being.”—­Brightland cor. “Words are signs, either oral or written, by which we express our thoughts, or ideas.”—­Mrs. Bethune cor. “His fears will detect him, that he shall not escape.”—­Comly cor. “Whose is equally applicable to persons and to things”—­Webster cor. “One negative destroys an other, so that two are equivalent to an affirmative.”—­Bullions cor.

   “No sooner does he peep into the world,
    Than he has done his do.”—­Hudibras cor.

CHAPTER X.—­PREPOSITIONS.

CORRECTIONS IN THE USE OF PREPOSITIONS.

“Nouns are often formed from participles.”—­L.  Murray corrected.  “What tenses are formed from the perfect participle?”—­Ingersoll cor. “Which tense is formed from the present, or root of the verb?”—­Id. “When a noun or a pronoun is placed before a participle, independently of the rest of the sentence.”—­Churchill’s Gram., p. 348.  “If the addition consists