Rain descends--Rains descend--Snow falls--Snows fall--Thunder
rolls--Thunders roll--Man's works decay--Men's labors cease--John's dog
barks--Eliza's voice trembles--Julia's sister's child improves--Peter's
cousin's horse limps.
In the next place, I will parse a noun and a _neuter_ verb, which verb,
you will notice, differs from an active only in one respect.
_"Birds repose_ on the branches of trees."
_Birds_ is a noun, the name of a thing or creature--common, the name of
a genus or class--masculine and feminine gender, it denotes both males
and females--third person, spoken of--plural number, it implies more
than one--and in the nominative case, it is the _subject_ of the verb
"repose," and governs it according to RULE 3. _The nominative case
governs the verb_. Declined--Sing. nom. bird, poss. bird's, obj. bird.
Plural, nom. birds, poss. birds', obj. birds.
_Repose_ is a verb, a word that signifies to _be_--neuter, it expresses
neither action nor passion, but a state of being--third person, plural
number, because the nominative "birds" is with which it agrees,
agreeably to RULE 4. _The verb must agree with its nominative in number
and person_.
Declined--1. pers. sing. I repose, 2. pers. thou reposest, 3. pers. he
reposes, or the bird reposes. Plur. 1. pers. we repose, 2. pers. ye or
you repose, 3. pers. they repose, or birds repose.
Now parse those nouns and neuter verbs that are distinguished by
_italics_, in the following