FALSE SYNTAX.

The nation are powerful.

The fleet were seen sailing up the channel.

The church have no power to inflict corporal punishment. The

flock, and not the fleece, are, or ought to be, the objects of the

shepherd's care.

That nation was once powerful; but now they are feeble.

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