UNDER NOTE VI.—ARTICLES OR PLURALS.
"This distinction forms what are called the diffuse style and the concise."—Dr. Blair cor. "Two different modes of speaking, distinguished at first by the denominations of the Attic manner and the Asiatic."—Adams cor. "But the great design of uniting the Spanish and French monarchies under the former, was laid."—Bolingbroke cor. "In the solemn and poetic styles, it [do or did] is often rejected."—Allen cor. "They cannot be, at the same time, in both the objective case and the nominative." Or: "They cannot be, at the same time, in both the objective and the nominative case." Or: "They cannot be, at the same time, in the nominative case, and also in the objective." Or: "They cannot be, at the same time, in the nominative and objective cases."—Murray's Gram., 8vo, p. 148. Or, better: "They cannot be, at the same time, in both cases, the nominative and the objective."—Murray et al. cor. "They are named the positive, comparative, and superlative degrees."—Smart cor. "Certain adverbs are capable of taking an inflection; namely, that of the comparative and superlative degrees."—Fowler cor. "In the subjunctive mood, the present and imperfect tenses often carry with them a future sense."—Murray et al. cor. "The imperfect, the perfect, the pluperfect, and the first-future tense, of this mood, are conjugated like the same tenses of the indicative."—Kirkham bettered. "What rules apply in parsing personal pronouns of the second and third persons?"—Id. "Nouns are sometimes in the nominative or the objective case after the neuter verb be, or after an active-intransitive or a passive verb." "The verb varies its ending in the singular, in order to agree with its nominative, in the first, second, and third persons."—Id. "They are identical in effect with the radical and the vanishing stress."—Rush cor. "In a sonnet, the first, the fourth, the fifth, and the eighth line, usually rhyme to one an other: so do the second, third, sixth, and seventh lines; the ninth, eleventh, and thirteenth lines; and the tenth, twelfth, and fourteenth lines."—Churchill cor. "The iron and golden ages are run; youth and manhood are departed."—Wright cor. "If, as you say, the iron and the golden age are past, the youth and the manhood of the world."—Id. "An Exposition of the Old and New Testaments."—Henry cor. "The names and order of the books of the Old and the New Testament."—Bible cor. "In the second and third persons of that tense."—Murray cor. "And who still unites in himself the human and the divine nature."—Gurney cor. "Among whom arose the Italian, Spanish, French, and English languages."—Murray cor. "Whence arise these two numbers, the singular and the plural."—Burn cor.