RULE VIII._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

Two or more nouns, or nouns and pronouns, in the _singular_ number,

connected by copulative conjunctions, must have verbs, nouns, and

pronouns, agreeing with them in the _plural_; as, "Socrates _and_ Plato

_were_ wise; _they_ were eminent _philosophers_."

NOTE 1. When _each_ or _every_ relates to two or more nominatives in

the singular, although connected by a copulative, the verb must

agree with each of them in the singular; as, "_Every_ leaf, _and

every_ twig, _and every_ drop of water, _teems_ with life."

2. When the singular nominative of a complex sentence, has another

noun joined to it with a preposition, it is customary to put the

verb and pronoun agreeing with it in the singular; as, "Prosperity

with humility, _renders its_ possessor truly amiable;" "The General,

also, in conjunction with the officers, _has_ applied for redress."

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