every thing that is necessary to a good delivery.”—­Sheridan cor. “A good ear is the gift of nature; it may be much improved, but it cannot be acquired by art.”—­L.  Murray cor. “‘Truth’ is a common noun, of the third person, singular number, neuter gender, and nominative case.”—­Bullions cor. by Brown’s Form. “‘Possess’ is a regular active-transitive verb, found in the indicative mood, present tense, third person, and plural number.”—­Id. “‘Fear’ is a common noun, of the third person, singular number, neuter gender, and nominative case:  and is the subject of is:  according to the Rule which says, ’A noun or a pronoun which is the subject of a finite verb, must be in the nominative case.’ Because the meaning is—­’fear is.’”—­Id. “‘Is’ is an irregular neuter verb, from be, was, being, been; found in the indicative mood, present tense, third person, and singular number:  and agrees with its nominative fear; according to the Rule which says, ’Every finite verb must agree with its subject, or nominative, in person and number’ Because the meaning is—­’fear is.’”—­Id. “Ae in the word Gaelic, has the sound of long a.”—­Wells cor.

UNDER CRITICAL NOTE XI.—­OF LITERARY BLUNDERS.

“Repeat some adverbs that are composed of the prefix or preposition a and nouns.”—­Kirkham cor. “Participles are so called, because they participate or partake the properties of verbs and of adjectives or nouns.  The Latin word participium, which signifies a participle, is derived from participo, to partake.”—­Merchant cor. “The possessive precedes an other noun, and is known by the sign ’s, or by this ’, the apostrophe only.”—­Beck cor. “Reciprocal pronouns, or compound personal pronouns, are formed by adding self or selves to the simple possessives of the first and second persons, and to the objectives of the third person; as, myself, yourselves, himself, themselves.”—­Id. “The word SELF, and its plural SELVES, when used separately as names, must be considered as nouns; but when joined to the simple pronouns, they are not nouns, but parts of the compound personal pronouns.”—­Wright cor. “The Spondee ‘rolls round,’ expresses beautifully the majesty of the sun in his course.”—­Webster and Frazee cor. “Active-transitive verbs govern the objective case; as, ‘John learned his lesson.’”—­Frazee cor. “Prosody primarily signified accent, or the modulation of the voice; and, as the name implies, related to poetry, or song.”—­Hendrick