RULE IV._English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Accompanied by a compendium, embracing a new systematic order of parsing, a new system of punctuation, exercises in false syntax, and a system of philosophical grammar, in notes, to which are added an appendix and a key to the exercises : designed for the use of schools and private learners

The verb must agree with its nominative in number and person; as, "The

bird _sings_, the birds _sing_, thou _singest_."

NOTE 1. Every verb, when it is not in the infinitive mood, must have

a nominative, expressed or implied; as, "Awake, arise;" that is,

Awake _ye_; arise _ye_.

2. When a verb comes between two nouns, either of which may be

considered as the subject of the affirmation, it must agree with

that which is more naturally its subject; as, "The wages of sin _is_

death; His meat _was_ locusts and wild honey;" "His pavilion _were_

dark _waters_ and thick _clouds_."

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