 | Robert Lowth - English language - 1774 - 168 pages
...Two or more Nouns in the Singular Number, joined together by one or more Copulative Conjunctions [2], have Verbs, Nouns, and Pronouns, agreeing with them in the Plural Number: as, Sccrates and Plato were wife ; they were the moft emi rent Phlhjophert of Greece." But fometimes,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1805 - 350 pages
...or more nouns, &c. in the singular number, joined together by one or more copulative conjunctions, expressed or understood, must have verbs, nouns, and...pronouns, agreeing with them in the plural number : as, " Socrates and Plato were wise; they were the most eminent philosophers of Greece ;" " The sun... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1805 - 348 pages
...fingular number, joined together by one or more copulative conjunctions, exprefled or underftood, muft have verbs, nouns, and pronouns, agreeing with them in the plural number : as, " Socrates and Plato were wife ; they were the moft eminent philofophers of Greece ;" " The fun... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1808 - 178 pages
...or more nouns, SCc. in the singular number, joined together by one or mure copulative conjunction;,, expressed or understood, must have verbs, nouns, and...pronouns, agreeing with them in the plural number ; as, " Socratet and Plato were wise ; they were the most eminent philosophers of Greece " " The sun... | |
 | J A. Stewart - 1814 - 792 pages
...nouns, &c. in the singular number, joined together by a copulative conjunction, expressed or understood, have verbs, nouns, and pronouns agreeing with them in the plural number; as,." Socrates and Plato were wise: they were the most eminent philosophers of Greece ;" " The sun... | |
 | John Dougall - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1815 - 514 pages
...action. Two or more nouns in the singular number, joined together by one or more copulative conjunctions, have verbs, nouns, and pronouns, agreeing with them in the plural number : as, " Socrates and Plato were wise ; they mere the most eminent philosophy's of Greece." But sometimes,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1817 - 216 pages
...RULE II. Tivo or more nouns, ffc. in the singular number, joined together by a copulative conjunction, expressed or understood, must have verbs, nouns, and...pronouns, agreeing with them in the plural number : as, " Socrates and Plato mere wise ; they were the most eminent philosophers of Greece ;" " The sun... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1821 - 324 pages
...or more nouns, &c. in the singular number, joined together by a copulative conjunction, expres. sed or understood, must have verbs, nouns, and pronouns, agreeing with them in the plural number : as, " Socrates and Plato were wise ; they were the most eminent philosophers of Greece ;" " The sun... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Ardesher Bahramjee - Grammar, Comparative and general - 1822 - 656 pages
...Copulative conjunction Pivaj'll HrtHl (tut *Ч Г {} С<}1ЧлЛ«ч i^^^'tcrt) expressed or understood, have verbs, nouns, and pronouns agreeing with them in the plural number: !) Hfrlt[ jjuTi aMl ^Tî Pî а-, '• Sociales and Plato Tßere wise: /Ло/ were the £н£ Счи"<><'-^>... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1823 - 236 pages
...RULE II. Two or more nouns, fyc. in the singular number, joined together by a copulative conjunction, expressed or understood, must have verbs, nouns, and...pronouns, agreeing with them in the plural number: as " Socrates and Plato were wise; they were the most eminent philosophers of Greece;" " The sun that... | |
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RULE II. Two or more nouns, fyc. in the singular number, joined together by a copulative conjunction, expressed or understood, must have verbs, nouns, and pronouns, agreeing with them in the plural number: as " Socrates and Plato were wise; they were... 
