as many letters as there are elementary sounds in the language:  the English alphabet, having fewer letters than sounds, and sometimes more than one letter for the same sound, is both defective and redundant.”—­Id. “A common noun is a name, given to a whole class or species, and is applicable to every individual of that class.”—­Id. “Thus an adjective has usually a noun either expressed or understood.”—­Id. “Emphasis is extraordinary force used in the enunciation of such words as we wish to make prominent in discourse.”  Or:  “Emphasis is a peculiar stress of voice, used in the utterance of words specially significant.”—­Dr. H. Blair cor.; also L.  Murray. “So simple a question as.  ‘Do you ride to town to-day?’ is capable of as many as four different acceptations, the sense varying as the emphasis is differently placed.”—­Iid. “Thus, bravely, for ‘in a brave manner.’ is derived from brave-like.”—­Hiley cor. “In this manner, several different parts of speech are often formed from one root by means of different affixes.”—­Id. “Words derived from the same root, are always more or less allied in signification.”—­Id. “When a noun of multitude conveys the idea of unity, the verb and pronoun should be singular; but when it conveys the idea of plurality, the verb and pronoun must be plural.”—­Id. “They have spent their whole time to make the sacred chronology agree with the profane.”—­Id. “I have studied my lesson, but you have not looked at yours.”—­Id. “When words are connected in pairs, there is usually a comma after each pair.”—­ Hiley, Bullions, and Lennie, cor. “When words are connected in pairs, the pairs should be marked by the comma.”—­Farnum cor. “His book entitled, ‘Studies of Nature,’ is deservedly a popular work.”—­Biog.  Dict. cor.

   “Here rests his head upon the lap of earth,
    A youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown.”—­GRAY.

“‘Youth,’ here, is in the nominative case, (the verb ‘rests’ being, in this instance, transitive,) and is the subject of the sentence.  The meaning is, ‘A youth here rests his head,’ &c.”—­Hart cor. “The pronoun I, as well as the interjection O, should be written with a capital.”  Or:  “The pronoun I, and the interjection O, should be written with capitals”—­Weld cor. “The pronoun I should always be written with a capital.”—­Id. “He went from London to York.”—­Id. “An adverb is a word added to a verb, a participle, an adjective, or an other adverb, to modify its meaning.”—­Id. (See Lesson 1st under the General Rule.) “SINGULAR signifies, ‘expressing only one;’ denoting