the indicative mood, present tense, third person, and singular number.”—­Murray cor. “SHOULD GIVE is an irregular active-transitive verb [from give, gave, given, giving; found] in the potential mood, imperfect tense, first person, and plural number.”—­Id. “US is a personal pronoun, of the first person, plural number, masculine gender, and objective case.”—­Id. “THEM is a personal pronoun, of the third person, plural number, masculine gender, and objective case.”—­Id. “It is surprising that the Jewish critics, with all their skill in dots, points, and accents, never had the ingenuity to invent a point of interrogation, a point of admiration, or a parenthesis.”—­Dr. Wilson cor. “The fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth verses.”  Or:  “The fifth, the sixth, the seventh, and the eighth verse.”—­O.  B. Peirce cor.  “Substitutes have three persons; the First, the Second, and the Third.”—­Id. “JOHN’S is a proper noun, of the third person, singular number, masculine gender, and possessive case:  and is governed by ‘WIFE,’ according to Rule” [4th, which says, &c.]—­Smith cor.  “Nouns, in the English language, have three cases; the nominative, the possessive, and the objective.”—­Bar. and Alex. cor. “The potential mood has four tenses; viz., the present, the imperfect, the perfect, and the pluperfect.”—­Ingersoll cor.

   “Where Science, Law, and Liberty depend,
    And own the patron, patriot, and friend.”—­Savage cor.

UNDER NOTE X.—­SPECIES AND GENUS.

“The pronoun is a part of speech[532] put for the noun.”—­Paul’s Ac. cor. “The verb is a part of speech declined with mood and tense.”—­Id. “The participle is a part of speech derived from the verb.”—­Id. “The adverb is a part of speech joined to verbs, [participles, adjectives, or other adverbs,] to declare their signification.”—­Id. “The conjunction is a part of speech that joins words or sentences together.”—­Id. “The preposition is a part of speech most commonly set before other parts.”—­Id. “The interjection is a part of speech which betokens a sudden emotion or passion of the mind.”—­Id. “The enigma, or riddle, is also a species of allegory.”—­Blair and Murray cor. “We may take from the Scriptures a very fine example of the allegory.”—­Iidem.  “And thus have you exhibited a sort of sketch of art.”—­Harris cor. “We may ‘imagine a subtle kind of reasoning,’ as Mr. Harris acutely observes.”—­Churchill cor. “But, before entering on these, I shall give one instance of metaphor, very beautiful, (or, one very beautiful instance of metaphor,) that I may show the figure to full advantage.”—­Blair