instances of apposition or close connexion, should always be distinguished by the apostrophe.”—­Frost cor. “‘At these proceedings of the Commons:’  Here of is a sign of the objective case; and ‘Commons’ is of that case, being governed by this preposition.”—­A.  Murray cor. “Here let it be observed again, that, strictly speaking, all finite verbs have numbers and persons; and so have nearly all nouns and pronouns, even when they refer to irrational creatures and inanimate things.”—­Barrett cor. “The noun denoting the person or persons addressed or spoken to, is in the nominative case independent:  except it be put in apposition with a pronoun of the second person; as, ’Woe to you lawyers;’—­’You political men are constantly manoeuvring.’”—­Frost cor. “Every noun, when used in a direct address and set off by a comma, becomes of the second person, and is in the nominative case absolute; as, ’Paul, thou art beside thyself.”—­Jaudon cor. “Does the conjunction ever join words together? Yes; the conjunction sometimes joins words together, and sometimes sentences, or certain parts of sentences.”—­Brit.  Gram. cor.; also Buchanan.  “Every noun of the possessive form has a governing noun, expressed or understood:  as, St. James’s.  Here Palace is understood. But one possessive may govern an other; as, ‘William’s father’s house.’”—­Buchanan cor. “Every adjective (with the exceptions noted under Rule 9th) belongs to a noun or pronoun expressed or understood.”—­L.  Murray et al. cor. “Not every adjective qualifies a substantive, expressed or understood.”—­Bullions cor. “Not every adjective belongs to a noun expressed or understood.”—­Ingersoll cor. “Adjectives belong to nouns or pronouns, and serve to describe things.”—­R.  C. Smith cor. “English adjectives, in general, have no modifications in which they can agree with the nouns to which they relate.”—­Allen Fisk cor. “The adjective, if it denote unity or plurality, must agree with its substantive in number.”—­Buchanan cor. “Not every adjective and participle, by a vast many, belongs to some noun or pronoun, expressed or understood.”—­Frost cor. “Not every verb of the infinitive mood, supposes a verb before it, expressed or understood.”—­Buchanan cor. “Nor has every adverb its verb, expressed or understood; for some adverbs relate to participles, to adjectives, or to other adverbs.”—­Id. “A conjunction that connects one sentence to an other, is not always placed betwixt the two propositions or sentences which it unites.”—­Id.