"I shall endeavor to live hereafter _suitable_ to a man in my station."
--_Addison_.

"I can never think so very _mean_ of him."--Bentley's _Dissertation on
Phalaris_.

"His expectations run high and the fund to supply them is _extreme_
scanty."--_Lancaster's Essay on Delicacy_.

The commonest error in the use of the verb is the disregard of the
concord between the verb and its subject. This occurs most frequently
when the subject and the verb are widely separated, especially if some
other noun of a different number immediately precedes the verb. False
concords occur very often after _either_, _or_, _neither_, _nor_, and
_much_, _more_, _many_, _everyone_, _each_.

Here are a few authors' slips:--

"The terms in which the sale of a patent _were_ communicated to the
public."--Junius's _Letters_.

"The richness of her arms and apparel _were_ conspicuous."--Gibbon's
_Decline and Fall_.

"Everyone of this grotesque family _were_ the creatures of national
genius."--D'Israeli.

"He knows not what spleen, languor or listlessness _are_."--Blair's
_Sermons_.