censured by this author under the same head? 20.  How does Brown review these criticisms, and attempt to settle the question? 21.  What critical remark is made on the misuse of ever and never? 22.  How does Churchill differ from Lowth respecting the phrase, “ever so wisely,” or “never so wisely?” 23.  What is observed of never and ever as seeming to be adjectives, and being liable to contraction? 24.  What strictures are made on the classification and placing of the word only? 25.  What is observed of the term not but, and of the adverbial use of but? 26.  What is noted of the ambiguous use of but or only? 27.  What notions are inculcated by different grammarians about the introductory word there?

LESSON XXX.—­CONJUNCTIONS.

1.  When two declinable words are connected by a conjunction, why are they of the same case? 2.  What is the power, and what the position, of a conjunction that connects sentences or clauses? 3.  What further is added concerning the terms which conjunctions connect? 4.  What is remarked of two or more conjunctions coming together? 5.  What is said of and as supposed to be used to call attention? 6.  What relation of case occurs between nouns connected by as? 7.  Between what other related terms can as be employed? 8.  What is as when it is made the subject or the object of a verb? 9.  What questions are raised among grammarians, about the construction of as follow or as follows, and other similar phrases? 10.  What is said of Murray’s mode of treating this subject? 11.  Has Murray written any thing which goes to show whether as follows can be right or not, when the preceding noun is plural? 12.  What is the opinion of Nixon, and of Crombie? 13.  What conjunction is frequently understood? 14.  What is said of ellipsis after than or as? 15.  What is suggested concerning the character and import of than and as? 16.  Does than as well as as usually take the same case after it that occurs before it? 17.  Is the Greek or Latin construction of the latter term in a comparison usually such as ours? 18.  What inferences have our grammarians made from the phrase than whom? 19.  Is than supposed by Murray to be capable of governing any other objective than whom? 20.  What grammarian supposes whom after than to be “in the objective case absolute?” 21.  How does the author of this work dispose of the example? 22.  What notice is taken of O. B. Peirce’s Grammar, with reference to his manner of parsing words after than or as? 23.  What says Churchill about the notion that certain conjunctions govern the subjunctive mood? 24.  What is said of the different parts of speech contained in the list of correspondents?

LESSON XXXI.—­PREPOSITIONS.