66 this marshy meadow, bring it to me."-Neef cor. "If thou leave the room, do not forget to shut that drawer."-Id. "If thou grasp it stoutly, thou wilt not be hurt:" or, (familiarly,)—“ thou will not be hurt."-Id. "On condition that he come, I will consent to stay."-Murray's Key, p. 208. "If he be but discreet, he will succeed."—Inst., p. 280. "Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob."-Gen., xxxi, 24. "If thou cast me off, I shall be miserable.”—Inst., p. 280. Send them to me, if thou please."-Ib. "Watch the door of thy lips, lest thou utter folly."-Ib. "Though a liar speak the truth, he will hardly be believed."-Bartlett cor. "I will go, unless I be ill."-L. Murray cor. "If the word or words understood be supplied, the true construction will be apparent."—Id. "Unless thou see the propriety of the measure, we shall not desire thy support." Id. "Unless thou make a timely retreat, the danger will be unavoidable."-Id. "We may live happily, though our possessions be small."-Id. "If they be carefully studied, they will enable the student to parse all the exercises."-Id. "If the accent be fairly preserved on the proper syllable, this drawling sound will never be heard."-Id. "One phrase may, in point of sense, be equivalent to an other, though its grammatical nature be essentially different.” -Id. "If any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man."-2 Thess., iii, 14. "Thy skill will be the greater, if thou hit it."-Putnam, Cobb, or Knowles, cor. "We shall overtake him, though he run."-Priestley et al. cor. "We shall be disgusted, if he give us too much.”Blair cor. "What is't to thee, if he neglect thy urn, Or without spices let thy body burn?"-Dryden cor. 66 "And so would I, if I were he."-Inst., p. 191. "If I were a Greek, I should resist Turkish despotism."-Cardell cor. "If he were to go, he would attend to your business."-Id. "If thou felt as I do, we should soon decide."-Inst., p. 280. "Though thou shed thy blood in the cause, it would but prove thee sincerely a fool."-Ib. "If thou loved him, there would be more evidence of it."-Ib. "If thou convinced him, he would not act accordingly."-Murray cor. "If there were no liberty, there would be no real crime."-Formey cor. "If the house were burnt down, the case would be the same."--Foster cor. "As if the mind were not always in action, when it prefers any thing."- West cor. 'Suppose I were to say, 'Light is a body.'"-Harris cor. "If either oxygen or azote were omitted, life would be destroyed." -Gurney cor. "The verb dare is sometimes used as if it were an auxiliary."-Priestley cor. "A certain lady, whom I could name, if it were necessary."-Spect. cor. "If the e were dropped, c and g would assume their hard sounds."-Buchanan cor. "He would no more comprehend it, than if it were the speech of a Hottentot."-Neef cor. "If thou knew the gift of God," &c.-Bible cor. "I wish I were at "Fact alone does not constitute right: if it did, general warrants "Thou lookst upon thy boy, as though thou guessed it."-Putnam, Cobb, or Knowles, cor. "He fought as if he contended for life."—Hiley cor. "He fought as if he were contending for his life."-Id. home."-0. B. Peirce cor. were lawful."-Junius cor. "The dewdrop glistens on thy leaf, As if thou shed for me a tear; As if thou knew my tale of grief, Last Clause of Note IX-The Indicative Mood. "If he knows the way, he does not need a guide."-Inst., p. 191. "And if there is no difference, one of them must be superfluous, and ought to be rejected."-Murray cor. "I cannot say that I admire this construction, though it is much used."-Priestley cor. We are disappointed, if the verb does not immediately follow it."-Id. "If it was they, that acted so ungratefully, they are doubly in fault."-Murray cor. "If art becomes apparent, it disgusts the reader."-Jamieson cor. "Though perspicuity is more properly a rhetorical than a grammatical quality, I thought it better to include it in this book."-Campbell cor. "Although the efficient cause is obscure, the final cause of those sensations lies open."-Blair cor. "Although the barrenness of language, or the want of words, is doubtless one cause of the invention of tropes."--Id. "Though it enforces not its instructions, yet it furnishes a greater variety."-Id. "In other cases, though the idea is one, the words remain quite separate."-Priestley cor. Though the form of our language is more simple, and has that peculiar beauty."-Buchanan cor. "Human works are of no significancy till they are completed."-Kames cor. "Our disgust lessens gradually till it vanishes altogether." Id. "And our relish improves by use, till it arrives at perfection."-Id. "So long as he keeps himself in his own proper element."-Coke cor. "Whether this translation was ever published or not, I am wholly ignorant."-Sale cor. "It is false to affirm, As it is day, it is light,' unless it actually is day."-Harris cor. "But we may at midnight affirm, 'If it is day, it is light.""If the Bible is true, it is a volume of unspeakable interest.”—Dickinson cor. "Though he was a son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered."-Bible cor. "If David then calleth (or calls) him Lord, how is he his son ?”—Id. Id. "Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill Appears in writing, or in judging, ill."-Pope cor. All the corrections under this head are directly contrary to the teaching of William S. Cardell, Oliver B. Peirce, and perhaps some other such writers on grammar; and some of them are contrary also to Murray's late editions. But I am confident that these authors teach erroneously; that their use of indicative forms for mere suppositions that are contrary to the facts, is positively ungrammatical; and that the potential imperfect is less elegant, in such instances, than the simple subjunctive, which they reject or distort. UNDER NOTE X.-FALSE SUBJUNCTIVES. "If a man has built a house, the house is his."-Wayland cor. "If God has required them of him, as is the fact, he has time."-Id. "Unless a previous understanding to the contrary has been had with the principal."-Berrian cor. "O! if thou hast hid them in some flowery cave."Milton cor. "O! if Jove's will has linked that amorous power to thy soft lay."-Id. "SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD: If thou love, If thou loved."-Dr. Priestley, Dr. Murray, John Burn, David Blair, Harrison, and others. "Till Religion, the pilot of the soul, hath lent thee her unfathomable coil."-Tupper cor. "Whether nature or art contributes most to form an orator, is a trifling inquiry."-Blair cor. "Year after year steals something from us, till the decaying fabric totters of itself, and at length crumbles into dust."-Murray cor. 'If spiritual pride has not entirely vanquished humility."-West cor. "Whether he has gored a son, or has gored a daughter.”—Bible "It is doubtful whether the object introduced by way of simile, relates to what goes before or to what follows."-Kames cor. cir. "And bridle in thy headlong wave, "And bridle in thy headlong wave, Till thou our summons answer'd hast." Or:- Till thou hast granted what we crave."-Milt.cor. CORRECTIONS UNDER KULE XV AND ITS NOTE. UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.-THE IDEA OF PLURALITY. "The gentry are punctilious in their etiquette."-G. B. "In France, the peasantry go barefoot, and the middle sort make use of wooden shoes."-Harvey cor. "The people rejoice in that which should cause sorrow."-Murray varied. "My people are foolish, they have not known me."-Bible and Lowth cor. "For the people speak, but do not write."-Phil. Mu. cor. "So that all the people that were in the camp, trembled."-Bible cor. "No company like to confess that they are ignorant."-Todd cor. "Far the greater part of their captives were anciently sacrificed." -Robertson cor. "More than one half of them were cut off before the return of spring."—ld. "The other class, termed Figures of Thought, suppose the words to be used in their proper and literal meaning."-Blair and Mur. cor. "A multitude of words in their dialect approach to the Teutonic form, and therefore afford excellent assistance."-Dr. Murray cor. “A great majority of our authors are defective in manner."-J. Brown cor. "The greater part of these new-coined words have been rejected."-Tooke cor. "The greater part of the words it contains, are subject to certain modifications or inflections."-The Friend cor. "While all our youth prefer her to the rest."-Waller cor. "Mankind are appointed to live in a future state."-Bp. Butler cor. "The greater part of human kind speak and act wholly by imitation."—Rambler, No. 146. "The greatest part of human gratifications approach so nearly to vice."-Ib., No. 160. "While still the busy world are treading o'er The paths they trod five thousand years before."-Young cor. UNDER THE NOTE.-THE IDEA of Unity. "In old English, this species of words was numerous."-Dr. Murray cor. "And a series of exercises in false grammar is introduced towards the end."--Frost cor. "And a jury, in conformity with the same idea, was anciently called homagium, the homage, or manhood."--Webster cor. "With respect to the former, there is indeed a plenty of means"-Kames cor. "The number of school districts has increased since the last year."-Throop cor. "The Yearly Meeting has purchased with its funds these publications."-Foster cor. "Has the legislature power to prohibit assemblies?"—Sullivan cor. "So that the whole number of the streets was fifty."-Rollin cor. "The number of inhabitants was not more than four millions."-Smollett cor. "The house of Commons was of small weight."-Hume cor. "The assembly of the wicked hath (or has) inclosed me."-Psal. cor. "Every kind of convenience and comfort is provided."-C. S. Journal "Amidst the great decrease of the inhabitants in Spain, the body of the clergy has suffered no diminution; but it has rather been gradually increasing."--Payne cor. "Small as the number of inhabitants is, yet their poverty is extreme."-Id. "The number of the names was about one hundred and twenty."-Ware and Acts cor. cor. แ CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE XVI AND ITS NOTES. UNDER THE RULE ITSELF-THE VEBB AFTER JOINT NOMINATIVES. "So much ability and [so much] merit are seldom found."-Mur. et al. cor. "The etymology and syntax of the language are thus spread before the learner."-Bullions cor. "Dr. Johnson tells us, that, in English poetry, the accent and the quantity of syllables are the same thing."Adams cor. "Their general scope and tendency, having never been clearly apprehended, are not remembered at all."-L. Murray cor. "The soil and sovereignty were not purchased of the natives."-Knapp cor. "The boldness, freedom, and variety, of our blank verse, are infinitely more favourable to sublimity of style, than [are the constraint and uniformity of] rhyme."-Blair cor. "The vivacity and sensibility of the Greeks seem to have been much greater than ours."—Id. "For sometimes the mood and tense are signified by the verb, sometimes they are signified of the verb by something else."-R. Johnson cor. "The verb and the noun making a complete sense, whereas the participle and the noun do not."-Id. "The growth and decay of passions and emotions, traced through all their mazes, are a subject too extensive for an undertaking like the present."-Kames cor. "The true meaning and etymology of some of his words were lost."—Knight 66 cor. "When the force and direction of personal satire are no longer understood."-Junius cor. "The frame and condition of man admit of no other principle."-Dr. Brown cor. "Some considerable time and care were necessary.”—ld. "In consequence of this idea, much ridicule and censure have been thrown upon Milton."--Blair cor. With rational beings, nature and reason are the same thing."-Collier cor. "And the flax and the barley were smitten."-Bible cor. "Tho colon and semicolon divide a period; this with, and that without, a connective."-Ware cor. "Consequently, wherever space and time are found, there God must also be."-Newton cor. "As the past tense and perfect participle of LOVE end in ED, it is regular."-Chandler cor. "But the usual arrangement and nomenclature prevent this from being readily scen."-N. Butler cor. "Do and did simply imply opposition or emphasis."-A. Murray cor. I and an other make the plural wE; thou and an other are equivalent to YE; he, she, or it, and an other, make THEY."-Id. "I and an other or others are the same as WE, the first person plural; thou and an other or others are the same as YE, the second person plural; he, she, or it, and an other or others, are the same as THEY, the third person plural."-Buchanan and Brit. Gram. cor. "God and thou are two, and thou and thy neighbour are two."-Love Conquest cor. "Just as AN and A have arisen out of the numeral ONE. -Fowler cor. 66 'The tone and style of all of them, particularly of the first and the last, are very different."-Blair cor. "Even as the roebuck and the hart are eaten."-Bible cor. "Then I may conclude that two and three do not make five.”—Barclay cor. "Which, at sundry times, thou and thy brethren have received from us."-Id. "Two and two are four, and one is five:" i. c., "and one, added to four, is five."-Pope cor. "Humility and knowledge with poor apparel, excel pride and ignorance under costly array.”—See Murray's Key, Rulo 2d. "A page and a half have been added to the section on composition."-Bullions cor. "Accuracy and expertness in this exercise are an important acquisition."-Id. "Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and dale proclaim thy blessing." Or thus:"Hill and valley boast thy blessing."-Milton cor. UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.-THE VERB BEFORE JOINT NOMINATIVES. "And so were "There are a good and a bad, a right and a wrong, in taste, as in other things.”—Blair cor. "Whence have arisen much stiffness and affectation."-Id. "To this error, are owing, in a great measure, that intricacy and [that] harshness, in his figurative language, which I before noticed." -Blair and Jamieson cor. "Hence, in his Night Thoughts, there prevail an obscurity and a hardness of style."-Blair cor. See Jamieson's Rhet., p. 167. "There are, however, in that work, much good sense and excellent criticism."-Blair cor. "There are too much low wit and scurrility in Plautus." Or: "There is, in Plautus, too much of low wit and scurrility."-ld. "There are too much reasoning and refinement, too much pomp and studied beauty, in them." Or: "There is too much of reasoning and refinement, too much of pomp and studied beauty, in them." -Id. "Hence arise the structure and characteristic expression of exclamation."-Rush cor. "And such pilots are he and his brethren, according to their own confession.”—Barclay cor. "Of whom are Hymeneus and Philetus; who concerning the truth have erred."-Bible cor. "Of whom are Hymeneus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan."—Id. James and John, the sons of Zebedee."—Id. "Out of the same mouth, proceed blessing and cursing."-Id "Out of the mouth of the Most High, proceed not evil and good."-Id. "In which there are most plainly a right and a wrong.”—Bp. Butler cor. "In this sentence, there are both an actor and an object."-R. C. Smith cor. In the breastplate, were placed the mysterious Urim and Thummim."--Milman cor. "What are the gender, number, and person, of the pronoun* in the first example?"--R. C. Smith cor. "There seem to be a familiarity and a want of dignity in it."-Priestley cor. "It has been often asked, what are Latin and Greek?"-Lit. Journal cor. "For where do beauty and high wit, But in your constellation, meet?"-Sam. Butler cor. "Thence to the land where flow Ganges and Indus."-Millon cor. "On these foundations, seem to rest the midnight riot and dissipation of modern assemblies."-Dr. Brown cor. "But what have disease, deformity, and filth, upon which the thoughts can be allured to dwell ?"-Dr. John'How are the gender and number of the relative known?"-Bullions cor. son cor. "In every language, there prevails a certain structure, or analogy of parts, which is understood to give foundation to the most reputable usage."—Dr. Blair cor. "There runs through his whole manner a stiffness, an affectation, which renders him [Shaftsbury] very unfit to be considered a general model."-Id. 'But where declamation for improvement in speech is the sole aim."-Id. For it is by these, chiefly, that the train of thought, the course of reasoning, the whole progress of the mind, in continued discourse of any kind, is laid open."—Lowth cor. "In all writing and discourse, the proper composition or structure of sentences is of the highest importance."--Dr. Blair cor. Here the wishful and expectant look of the beggar naturally leads to a vivid concep tion of that which was the object of his thoughts."-Campbell cor. "Who say, that the outward naming of Christ, with the sign of the cross, puts away devils."-Barclay cor. "By which an oath This is what Smith must have meant by the inaccurate phrase, “those in the first." For his first examplo is, "He went to school;" which contains only the one pronoun " He."-See Smith's New Gram., p. 19. with a penalty was to be imposed on the members."--Junius cor. "Light, or knowledge, in what manner soever afforded us, is equaily from God."-Bp. Butler cor. "For instance, sickness or untimely death is the consequence of intemperance."-Id. "When grief or blood ill-tempered vexeth him." Or: "When grief, with blood ill-tempered, veres him.”—Shak. cor. "Does continuity, or connexion, create sympathy and relation in the parts of the body?"-Collier cor. "His greatest concern, his highest enjoyment, was, to be approved in the sight of his Creator."-L. Murray cor. Know ye not that there is a prince, a great man, fallen this day in Israel?""What is vice, or wickedness? No rarity, you may depend on it."-Collier cur. "There is also the fear or apprehension of it."-Bp. Butler cor. "The apostrophe with s (s) is an abbreviation for is, the termination of the old English_genitive."--Bullions cor. "Ti, ce, OR ci, when followed by a vowel, usually has the sound of sh; as in partial, ocean, special."— Weld cor. Bible cor. "Bitter constraint of sad occasion dear Compels me to disturb your season due."-Milton cor. "Debauch ry, or excess, though with less noise, As great a portion of mankind destroys."- Waller cor. UNDER NOTE II.—AFFIRMATION WITH NEGATION. "Wisdom, and not wealth, procures esteem."-Inst., Key, p. 272. "Prudence, and not pomp, is the basis of his fame."-Ib. Not fear, but labour has overcome him.”—Ib. "The decency, and not the abstinence, makes the difference."-Ib. "Not her beauty, but her talents attract attention."-Ib. "It is her talents, and not her beauty, that attract attention."-Ib. "It is her beauty, and not her talents, that attracts attention."-Ib. "His belly, not his brains, this impulse gives : He'll grow immortal; for he cannot live." Or thus: "His bowels, not his brains, this impulse give: He'll grow immortal; for he cannot live."-Young cor. UNDER NOTE III-AS WELL AS, BUT, OR SAVE. "Common sense, as well as piety, tells us these are proper."-Fam. Com. cor. "For without it the critic, as well as the undertaker, ignorant of any rule, has nothing left but to abandon himself to chance."-Kames cor. "And accordingly hatred, as well as love, is extinguished by long absence."-Id. "But at every turn the richest melody, as well as the sublimest sentiments, is conspicuous."-Id. But it, as well as the lines immediately subsequent, defies all translation." -Coleridge cor. "But their religion, as well as their customs and manners, was strangely misrepresented."-Blingbroke, on History, Paris Edition of 1808, p. 93. "But his jealous policy, as well as the fatal antipathy of Fonseca, was conspicuous."-Robertson cor. "When their extent, as well as their value, was unknown."-Id. "The etymology, as well as the syntax, of the more difficult parts of speech, is reserved for his attention at a later period."-Parker and Fox cor. "What I myself owe to him, no one but myself knows."— Wright cor. "None, but thou, O mighty prince! can avert the blow."-Inst., Key, p. 272. 'Nothing, but frivolous amusements, pleases the indolent."-Ib. "Nought, save the gurglings of the rill, was heard."-G. B. UNDER NOTE IV.—EACH, EVERY, OR NO. "Give every word, and every member, its due weight and force."-Murray's Gram., Vol. i, p. 316. "And to one of these belongs every noun, and every third person of every verb.”—Dr. Wilson cor. "No law, no restraint, no regulation, is required to keep him within bounds."-Lit. Journal cor. "By that time, every window and every door in the street was full of heads."Observer cor. Every system of religion, and every school of philosophy, stands back from this field, and leaves Jesus Christ alone, the solitary example." Or: "All systems of religion, and all schools of philosophy, stand back from this field, and leave Jesus Christ alone, the solitary example."-Abbott cor. "Each day, and each hour, brings its portion of duty."-Inst., Key, p. 272. And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, resorted unto him."-Bible cor. "Every private Christian, every member of the church, ought to read and peruse the Scriptures, that he may know his faith and belief to be founded upon them."-Barclay cor. And every mountain and every island was moved out of its place."-Bible cor. "No bandit fierce, no tyrant mad with pride, UNDER NOTE V.-WITH, OR, &c., FOR AND. "The stream, "The sides, A, B, and C, compose the triangle."-Tobitt, Felch, and Ware cor. the rock, and the tree, must each of them stand forth, so as to make a figure in the imagination."Dr. Blair cor. "While this, with euphony, constitutes, finally, the whole."―0. B. Peirce cor. "The baz, with the guineas and dollars in it, was stolen."-Cobbett cor. "Sobriety, with great industry and talent, enables a man to perform great deeds." Or: "Sobriety, industry, and talent, * According to modern usage, has would here be better than is,-though is fallen is still allowable.-G. BROWN. enable a man to perform great deeds."-Id. "The it, together with the verb, expresses a state of being."-Id. "Where Leonidas the Spartan king, and his chosen band, fighting for their country, were cut off to the last man."-Kames cor. "And Leah also, and her children, came near and bowed themselves."-Bible cor. "The First and the Second will either of them, by itself, coalesce with the Third, but they do not coalesce with each other."--Harris cor. "The whole must centre in the query, whether Tragedy and Comedy are hurtful and dangerous representations."--Formey cor. "Both grief and joy are infectious: the emotions which they raise in the spectator, resemble them perfectly."-Kames cor. "But, in all other words, the q and u are both sounded."-Ensell cor. Qand u (which are always together) have the sound of kw, as in queen; or of k only, as in opaque." Or, better: "Q has always the sound of ; and the u which follows it, that of w; except in French words, in which the u is silent."-Goodenow cor. "In this selection, the a and i form distinct syllables."-Walker cor. "And a considerable village, with gardens, fields, &c., extends around on each side of the square."-Lib. cor. "Affection and interest guide our notions and behaviour in the affairs of life; imagination and passion affect the sentiments that we entertain in matters of taste."-Jamieson cor. "She heard none of those intimations of her defects, which envy, petulance, and anger, produce among children."―Johnson cor. "The King, Lords, and Commons, constitute an excellent form of government."-Crombie et al. cor. "If we say, 'I am the man who commands you,' the relative clause, with the antecedent man, forms the predicate."- Crombie cor. "The spacious firmament on high, | And spangled heav'ns, a shining frame, UNDER NOTE VI.-ELLIPTICAL CONSTRUCTIONS. "There are a reputable and a disreputable practice." Or: "There is a reputable, and there is a disreputable practice."-Adams cor. "This man and this were born in her."-Milton cor. "This man and that were born in her."-Bible cor. "This and that man were born there."Hendrick cor. "Thus le in lego, and le in legi, seem to be sounded equally long."-Adam and Gould cor. "A distinct and an accurate articulation form the groundwork of good delivery." Or: "A distinct and accurate articulation forms the groundwork of good delivery."-Kirkham cor. "How are vocal and written language understood?”—Sanders cor. "The good, the wise, and the learned man, are ornaments to human society." Or: "The good, wise, and learned man is an ornament to human society "-Bartlett cor. In some points, the expression of song and that of speech are identical."-Rush cor. "To every room, there were an open and a secret passage."-Johnson cor. "There are such things as a true and a false taste; and the latter as often directs fashion, as the former."-Webster cor. "There are such things as a prudent and an imprudent institution of life, with regard to our health and our affairs."-Bp. Butler cor. "The lot of the outcasts of Israel, and that of the dispersed of Judah, however different in one respect, have in an other corresponded with wonderful exactness."-Hope of Israel cor. "On these final syllables, the radical and the vanishing movement are performed."—Rush cor. "To be young or old, and to be good, just, or the contrary, are physical or moral events."-Spurzheim cor., and Felch. "The eloquence of George Whitfield and that of John Wesley were very different in character each from the other."-Dr. Sharp cor. "The affinity of m for the series beginning with b, and that of n for the series beginning with t, give occasion for other euphonic changes."-Fowler cor. "Pylades' soul, and mad Orestes', were In these, if right the Greek philosopher." Or thus: "Pylades' and Orestes' soul did pass To these, if we believe Pythagoras." Or, without ellipsis:"Pylades and Orestes' souls did pass To these, if we believe Pythagoras."- Cowley corrected. UNDER NOTE VII.-DISTINCT SUBJECT PHRASES. "To be moderate in our views, and to proceed temperately in the pursuit of them, are the best ways to ensure success."-L. Murray cor. "To be of any species, and to have a right to the name of that species, are both one."-Locke cor. "With whom, to will, and to do, are the same." -Dr. Jamieson cor. "To profess, and to possess, are very different things."-Inst., Key, p. 272. "To do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with God, are duties of universal obligation." -Ib. "To be round or square, to be solid or fluid, to be large or small, and to be moved swiftly or slowly, are all equally alien from the nature of thought."-Dr. Johnson. "The resolving of a sentence into its elements, or parts of speech, and [a] stating [of] the accidents which belong to these, are called PARSING." Or, according to Note 1st above: The resolving of a sentence into its elements, or parts of speech, with [a] stating [of] the accidents which belong to these, is called PARSING."-Bullions cor. "To spin and to weave, to knit and to sew, were once a girl's employments; but now, to dress, and to catch a beau, are all she calls enjoyments."Kimball cor. CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE XVII AND ITS NOTES. UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.-NOMINATIVES CONNECTED BY OR. "We do not know in what either reason or instinct consists."-Johnson corrected. a pronoun joined with a participle, constitutes a nominative case absolute."-Bicknell cor. relative will be of that case which the verb or noun following, or the preposition going before, "A noun or "The |