nd the _third Epistle_ of John
_are_ each but one short chapter."--"The metaphorical and the literal
meaning _are_ improperly mixed."--_Murray's Gram._, p. 339. "The Doctrine
of Words, separately consider'd, and in a Sentence, _are_ Things distinct
enough."--_Brightland's Gram._, Pref., p. iv. Better perhaps: "The doctrine
of words separately considered, and _that of words_ in a sentence, _are_
things distinct enough."

"The _Curii's_ and the _Camilli's_ little _field_,
To vast extended territories _yield_."--_Rowe's Lucan_, B. i, l. 320.

NOTE VII.--Two or more distinct subject phrases connected by _and_, require
a plural verb, and generally a plural noun too, if a nominative follow the
verb; as, "_To be wise in our own eyes, to be wise in the opinion of the
world_, and _to be wise in the sight of our Creator_, are three things so
very different, as rarely to coincide."--_Blair_. "'_This picture of my
friend_,' and '_This picture of my friend's_,' suggest very different
ideas."--_Priestley's Gram._, p. 71; _Murray's_, i, 178.

"Read of this burgess--on the stone _appear_,
How worthy he! how virtuous! and how dear!"--_Crabbe_.

IMPROPRIETIES FOR CORRECTION.

FALSE SYNTAX UNDER RULE XVI.

UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.--THE VERB AFTER JOINT NOMINATIVES.

"So much ability and merit is seldom found."--_Murray's Key_, 12mo, p. 18;
_Merchant's School Gram._, p. 190.

[FORMULE.--Not proper, because the verb _is_ is in the singular number, and
does not correctly agree with its two nominatives, _ability_ and _merit_,
which are connected by _and_, and taken conjointly. But, according to Rule
16th, "When a verb has two or more nominatives connected by _and_, it must
agree with them jointly in the plural, because they are taken together."
Therefore, _is_ should be _are_; thus, "So much ability and merit _are_
seldom found." Or: "So much ability and _so much_ merit _are_ seldom
found."]

"The syntax and etymology of the language is thus spread before
the learner."--_Bullions's English Gram._, 2d Edition, Rec., p. iii. "Dr.
Johnson tells us, that in English poetry the accent and the quantity of
syllables is the same thing."--_J. Q. Adams's Rhet._, ii, 213. "Their
general scope and tendency, having never been clearly apprehended, is not
remembered at all."--_Murray's Gram._, i, p. 126. "The soil and sovereignty
was not purchased of the natives."--_Knapp's Lect. on Amer. Lit._, p. 55.
"The boldness, freedom, and vari