to Rule 14th? 14.  Why is it wrong to say, with Dr. Ash, “The king and queen appearing in public was the cause of my going?” 15.  What inconsistency is found in Murray, with reference to his “nominative sentences?” 16.  What is Dr. Webster’s ninth rule of syntax? 17.  Why did Murray think all Webster’s examples under this rule bad English? 18.  Why are both parties wrong in this instance? 19.  What strange error is taught by Cobbett, and by Wright, in regard to the relative and its verb? 20.  Is it demonstrable that verbs often agree with relatives? 21.  What is observed of the agreement of verbs in interrogative sentences? 22.  Do we ever find the subjunctive mood put after a relative pronoun? 23.  What is remarked of the difference between the indicative and the subjunctive mood, and of the limits of the latter?

LESSON XXIII.—­VERBS.

24.  In respect to collective nouns, how is it generally determined, whether they convey the idea of plurality or not? 25.  What is stated of the rules of Adam, Lowth, Murray, and Kirkham, concerning collective nouns? 26.  What is Nixon’s notion of the construction of the verb and collective noun? 27.  Does this author appear to have gained “a clear idea of the nature of a collective noun?” 28.  What great difficulty does Murray acknowledge concerning “nouns of multitude?” 29.  Does Murray’s notion, that collective nouns are of different sorts, appear to be consistent or warrantable? 30.  Can words that agree with the same collective noun, be of different numbers? 31.  What is observed of collective nouns used partitively? 32.  Which are the most apt to be taken plurally, collections of persons, or collections of things? 33.  Can a collective noun, as such, take a plural adjective before it? 34.  What is observed of the expressions, these people, these gentry, these folk? 35.  What is observed of sentences like the following, in which there seems to be no nominative:  “There are from eight to twelve professors?” 36.  What rule does Dr. Webster give for such examples as the following:  “There was more than a hundred and fifty thousand pounds?” 37.  What grammarians teach, that two or more nouns connected by and, “always require the verb or pronoun to which they refer, to be in the plural number?” 38.  Does Murray acknowledge or furnish any exceptions to this doctrine? 39.  On what principle can one justify such an example as this:  “All work and no play, makes Jack a dull boy?” 40.  What is remarked of instances like the following:  “Prior’s Henry and Emma contains an other beautiful example?” 41.  What is said of the suppression of the conjunction and? 42.  When the speaker changes his nominative, to take a stronger one, what concord has the verb? 43.  When two or more nominatives connected by and explain a preceding one, what agreement has the verb? 44.  What grammarian approves of such expressions as, “Two and two is four?” 45.  What is observed of verbs that agree with the nearest nominative, and are understood to the rest? 46.  When the nominatives connected are of different persons, of what person is the verb?