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VI. ADVERBS, &c.

ADVERBS of time; ever, never, now, then, &c. of place; here, there, where, &c, of number; once, twice, thrice, &c. of affirming; yes, verily, truly, &c. of denying; no, not, nay, only, &c. of quality; elegantly, generously.

CONJUNCTIONS.

Again, albeit, although, also, and, as, because, both, but, either, elfe, except, for, forafmuch, however, if, indeed, left, moreover, neither, nevertheless, nor, notwithftanding, or, fave, feeing, fince, so, than, that, therefore, though, unless, whereas, wherefore, whether, yet.

CORRESPONDING CONJUNCTIONS.

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PREPOSITIONS.

Above, a, about, after, against, amid, amidft, among, amongst, around, at, before, behind, below, beneath, befide, befides, between, betwixt, beyond, by, down, except, for, from, in, into, of, off, on, over, out, round, through, throughout, till, untill to, toward, towards, under, underneath, up, upon, with, within, without.

INTERJECTIONS.

Ah! alas! O! Oh! &c.

PART III.

PART III.

Of SYNTAX.

1. THE

HE verb agrees with its agent or fubject in number and perfon.

II. Two or more nouns or pronouns of the fingular number joined in a fentence, require a verb plural, and if they be of different perfons, the first person is preferred to the second, and the second to the third.

III. A noun of multitude may have a verb either in the fingular or plural number, according to the unity or plurality of its fignification; nouns or pronouns in appofition are in the fame cafe.

IV. When an infinitive mode or a fentence is the agent or subject of a verb, the verb is in the third perfon fingular number:

the

the infinitive or a fentence is fometimes the fubftantive to an adjective, and the antecedent of a relative.

V. Pronouns agree with their nouns, and relatives with their antecedents in gender, number, and perfon; WHO relates to perfons, WHICH to things, and THAT to either; the pronoun relative following THAN is in the objective case.

VI. The adjective always relates to a subftantive expreffed or understood: adjectives denoting plurality are often joined to fingular nouns of NUMBER, WEIGHT, and MEA

SURE.

VII. The agent or fubject of a verb is in the nominative case.

VIII. Verbs active require the nouns or pronouns following them in the objective cafe; verbs neuter have the fame cafe after as before them; and participles require the fame cafe as the verbs they are derived from ; participial nouns not excepted.

IX. A

IX. A noun or pronoun put abfolutely with a participle, is in the nominative case: a noun or pronoun in the second perfon, is put abfolutely in the nominative cafe: participles are fometimes put abfolutely with adverbs; and when they admit of the degrees of comparison, they become adjectives.

X. The latter of two fubftantives is in the genitive cafe; and the latter of two verbs in the infinitive mode.

XI. Prepofitions require the objective case of the noun or pronoun following them.

XII. Interjections, properly fpeaking, have no government; the nouns or pronouns following them, are either influenced by prepofitions understood or in the nomi native cafe abfolute.

PART VI.

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