quire the Accusative Case of a Pronoun in the first "She reviles you, and them, and me." RULE 18. Such Substantives as want the Singular Number are mostly joined to a Verb Singular; as, "The News is barren." "The Wages of Sin is Death." RULE 19. When two, or more Substantives of different Numbers are. in a Sentence, with a Disjunctive Conjunction between or among them, and equally relate to a common Verb, the Verb agrees best with the nearest; as, "TheGeneral, or the Officers, have ordered supper." "Neither the bills, nor the book, nor the cash is in the desk." RULE 20. Whose, being the Genitive Case of who, should not be used but when it relates to persons; as, This violin whose goodness I know, is an improper sentence, and ought to be expressed thus, this violin of which I know the goodness." RULE 21. A Comparative Adverb must not be set before an Adjective compared with er and est; as, "London is larger than Paris." RULE RULE 22. The Passive Participle, and not the Past Tense of Verbs should be used with an Auxili ary Verb; as, "He had eaten with an appetite; not, he had eat." RULE 23. The Relative who, after the Conjunction than, must be put in the Accusative Case; as, "Titus, than whom no Prince was more beloved, succeeded his father Vespasian." RULE 24. The Article a (and not an) must be used before u long; i. e. when the letter u has the sound of you, as in a union, a university, a useful work. To these Rules may be added the following OB. 1. Adjectives are sometimes improperly used for Adverbs; as, "He is exceeding (exceedingly) open to access.' OB. 2. The following phrases, or expressions, being authorized by custom, and not reducible to rule, may be called Anglicisms; viz. A few days; many a time; methinks; every ten years; while the book was a printing; while the stream was a running, &c. OB. 3. In Prose Writings we often find wund'ring for wandering; short'ning for shortening; length'ning for lengthening; cou'd for could; don't for do not; mayn't mayn't for may not ; &c. All which, with other of the like sort, may be called Barbarisms and ought carefully to be avoided. OB. 4. Of should not be used after Participles in ing; for example, it would be wrong to say, these lines are not deserving of a place in this book. OB. 5. A Preposition is often understood after a Verb, as, "He was banished (from) England." OB. 6. A Preposition before an Adjective, without a Substantive, is mostly used for an Adverb; as, In particular, in earnest, of late.” OB. 7. When two Nouns come together with the Preposition of between them, denoting possession, the latter may be made the Genitive Case, and set before the other; as, "The property of the Men; or, The Men's property." OB. 8. The Preposition in is set before countries, cities, and large towns, especially if they are in the same nation.-At is set before villages, single houses, and cities, if they are in distant countries; as, He lives in London, in France, &c. He lives at Hackney, &c. OB. 9. That form of the Tenses in Verbs, which is distinguished by the Active Participle, is used with strict strict propriety when we would express the continuance of an action; as, "I have been writing a long time." "I shall be writing all the week." OB. 10. The Adverb is always placed immediately before the Adjective; but most commonly after the Verb; as, "A very pious man prays frequently." If the Verb have an Auxiliary the Adverb may be placed between the Auxiliary and the Verb; as, "It has frequently happened." OB. 11. The termination, eth, ed, and the participial form of the Verb, are used in the grave and formal style: but s, d, and the form of the Past Tense, in the free and familiar style; as, (gravely) "He huth loved; he hath spoken and still speaketh; (familiarly) he has loved; the man has spoke and still speaks." OB. 12. The neuter Pronoun, by an idiom peculiar to the English language, is frequently joined in explanatory sentences, with a Noun or Pronoun of the masculine or feminine Gender; as, "It is I.-It was the man that did it." OB. 13. The Pronominal Adjectives are only used in the Genitive Case, when put absolutely; as, "I will not do it for ten's sake." OB. my as, OB. 14. Mine and thine are frequently put for and thy, before a word that begins with a vowel; Mine eye, for my eye. I' OB. 15. In the complaisant style, it is common to use you, instead of thou, when we speak to one person only; and in that case, it has a plural, Verb joined with it; as, You are my brother. OB. 16. After Verbs of shewing, giving, &c. the Preposition to is elegantly omitted before the Pronoun, which notwithstanding must be in the Accusative Case; as, OB. 17. When two Substantives come together, and the first is used adjectively, they must be joined together by a hyphen; as, Sea-water; School-boy, &c., OB. 18. In some instances the Adjective becomes a Substantive, and has an Adjective joined to it; as, "The chief good;" "Evil be thou my good." OB. 19. Prepositions are frequently subjoined to Verbs; in which case they take the nature of the Adverb; as, |