cor. (35.) “An adverb is a word added to a verb, a participle, an adjective, or an other adverb, to modify the sense, or denote some circumstance.”—­Bullions cor. (36.) “A substantive, or noun, is a name given to some object which the senses can perceive, the understanding comprehend, or the imagination entertain.”—­Wright cor. (37-54.) “Genders are modifications that distinguish objects in regard to sex.”—­Brown’s Inst., p. 35:  Bullions cor.:  also Frost; also Perley; also Cooper; also L.  Murray et al.; also Alden et al.; also Brit.  Gram., with Buchanan; also Fowle; also Burn; also Webster; also Coar; also Hall; also Wright; also Fisher; also W.  Allen; also Parker and Fox; also Weld; also Weld again. (55 and 56.) “A case, in grammar, is the state or condition of a noun or pronoun, with respect to some other word in the sentence.”—­Bullions cor.; also Kirkham. (57.) “Cases are modifications that distinguish the relations of nouns and pronouns to other words.”—­Brown’s Inst., p. 36. (58.) “Government is the power which one word has over an other, to cause it to assume some particular modification.”—­Sanborn et al. cor. See Inst., p. 104. (59.) “A simple sentence is a sentence which contains only one assertion, command, or question.”—­Sanborn et al. cor. (60.) “Declension means the putting of a noun or pronoun through the different cases and numbers.”—­Kirkham cor. Or better:  “The declension of a word is a regular arrangement of its numbers and cases.”—­See Inst., p. 37. (61.) “Zeugma is a figure in which two or more words refer in common to an other which literally agrees with only one of them.”—­B.  F. Fish cor. (62.) “An irregular verb is a verb that does not form the preterit and the perfect participle by assuming d or ed; as, smite, smote, smitten.”—­Inst., p. 75. (63).  “A personal pronoun is a pronoun that shows, by its form, of what person it is.”—­Inst., p. 46.

UNDER CRITICAL NOTE IV.—­OF COMPARISONS.

“Our language abounds more in vowel and diphthong sounds, than most other tongues.”  Or:  “We abound more in vowel and diphthongal sounds, than most nations.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “A line thus accented has a more spirited air, than one which takes the accent on any other syllable.”—­Kames cor. “Homer introduces his deities with no greater ceremony, that [what] he uses towards mortals; and Virgil has still less moderation than he.”—­Id. “Which the more refined taste of later writers, whose