of Crit._,
ii, 341. Say rather, "_becomes_;" which is indicative. "Till the general
preference of certain forms _have been declared_."--_Priestley's Gram.,
Pref._, p. xvii. Say, "_has been declared_;" for "_preference_" is here the
nominative, and Dr. Priestley himself recognizes no other subjunctive
tenses than the present and the imperfect; as, "If thou _love_, If thou
_loved_."--_Ib._, p. 16.

IMPROPRIETIES FOR CORRECTION.

FALSE SYNTAX UNDER RULE XIV.

UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.--VERB AFTER THE NOMINATIVE.

"Before you left Sicily, you was reconciled to Verres."--_Duncan's Cicero_,
p. 19.

[FORMULE.--Not proper, because the passive verb _was reconciled_ is of the
singular number, and does not agree with its nominative _you_, which is of
the second person plural. But, according to Rule 14th, "Every finite verb
must agree with its subject, or nominative, in person and number."
Therefore, _was reconciled_ should be _were reconciled_; thus, "Before you
left Sicily, you _were reconciled_ to Verres."]

"Knowing that you was my old master's good friend."--_Spect._, No. 517.
"When the judge dare not act, where is the loser's remedy?"--_Webster's
Essays_, p. 131. "Which extends it no farther than the variation of the
verb extend."--_Murray's Gram._, 8vo, Vol. i, p. 211. "They presently dry
without hurt, as myself hath often proved."--_Roger Williams_. "Whose
goings forth hath been from of old, from everlasting."--_Keith's
Evidences_. "You was paid to fight against Alexander, not to rail at
him."--_Porter's Analysis_, p. 70. "Where more than one part of speech is
almost always concerned."--_Churchill's Gram., Pref._, p. viii. "Nothing
less than murders, rapines, and conflagrations, employ their
thoughts."--_Duncan's Cicero_, p. 175. "I wondered where you was, my
dear."--_Lloyd's Poems_, p. 185. "When thou most sweetly sings."--_Drummond
of Hawthornden_. "Who dare, at the present day, avow himself equal to the
task?"--_Music of Nature_, p. 11. "Every body are very kind to her, and not
discourteous to me."--_Byron's Letters_. "As to what thou says respecting
the diversity of opinions."--_The Friend_, Vol. ix, p. 45. "Thy nature,
immortality, who knowest?"--_Everest's Gram._, p. 38. "The natural
distinction of sex in animals gives rise to what, in grammar, is called
genders."--_Ib._, p. 51. "Some pains has likewise been taken."--_Scott's
Pref. to Bible_. "And many a steed in his stables were seen."--_Penwarne's
Poems_, p.