UNDER RULE III.—OF FAULTY DASHES.
"'You shall go home directly, Le Fevre,' said my uncle Toby, 'to my house; and we'll send for a doctor to see what's the matter; and we'll have an apothecary; and the corporal shall be your nurse: and I'll be your servant, Le Fevre.'"—Sterne cor.
"He continued: 'Inferior artists may be at a stand, because they want materials.'"—Harris cor. "Thus, then, continued he: 'The end, in other arts, is ever distant and removed.'"—Id.
"The nouns must be coupled with and; and when a pronoun is used, it must be plural, as in the example. When the nouns are disjoined, the pronoun must be singular."—Lennie cor.
"Opinion is a common noun, or substantive, of the third person, singular number, neuter gender, and nominative case."—Wright cor.
"The mountain, thy pall and thy prison, may keep thee;
I shall see thee no more, but till death I will weep thee."
—See Felton's Gram., p. 93.