cor. “On such a principle of forming them, there would be as many moods as verbs; and, in stead of four moods, we should have four thousand three hundred, which is the number of verbs in the English language, according to Lowth.” [556]—­Hallock cor. “The phrases, ’To let out blood,’—­’To go a hunting,’ are not elliptical; for out is needless, and a is a preposition, governing hunting.”—­Bullions cor. “In Rhyme, the last syllable of every line corresponds in sound with that of some other line or lines.”—­Id. “The possessive case plural, where the nominative ends in s, has the apostrophe only; as, ’Eagles’ wings,’—­’lions’ whelps,’—­’bears’ claws.’”—­Weld cor. “‘Horses-manes,’ plural, should be written possessively, ‘horses’ manes:’” [one “mane" is never possessed by many “horses."]—­Id. “W takes its usual form from the union of two Vees, V being the figure of the Roman capital letter which was anciently called U.”—­Fowler cor. “In the sentence, ’I saw the lady who sings,’ what word is nominative to SINGS?”—­J.  Flint cor. “In the sentence, ‘This is the pen which John made,’ what word expresses the object of MADE?”—­Id. “‘That we fall into no sin:’  no is a definitive or pronominal adjective, not compared, and relates to sin.”—­Rev. D. Blair cor. “’That all our doings may be ordered by thy governance:’  all is a pronominal adjective, not compared, and relates to doings.”—­Id. “‘Let him be made to study.’ Why is the sign to expressed before study?  Because be made is passive; and passive verbs do not take the infinitive after them without the preposition to.”—­Sanborn cor. “The following verbs have both the preterit tense and the perfect participle like the present:  viz., Cast, cut, cost, shut, let, bid, shed, hurt, hit, put, &c.”—­Buchanan cor. “The agreement which any word has with an other in person, number, gender, or case, is called CONCORD; and the power which one word has over an other, in respect to ruling its case, mood, or form, is called GOVERNMENT.”—­Bucke cor. “The word ticks tells what the watch is doing.”—­Sanborn cor. “The Breve ([~]) marks a short vowel or syllable, and the Macron ([=]), a long one.”—­Bullions and Lennie cor. “’Charles, you, by your diligence, make easy work of the task given you by your preceptor.’  The first you is in the nominative case, being the subject of the verb make.”—­Kirkham cor. “Uoy in buoy is a proper triphthong; eau in flambeau is an improper triphthong.”—­Sanborn cor.