By the thirteenth rule of syntax, when verbs are used that, in point of time, relate to each other, the order of time should be observed.

The imperfect tense _visited_ should therefore have been _had visited_, in the pluperfect tense, representing the action of _visiting_, not only as past, but also as prior to the time of _returning_.

_The sentence corrected would stand thus_: 'After I _had visited_ Europe, I returned to America.'"-- _Gr._, ii, p.

19; _and Ex._ 12mo, p.xii.These are the first two examples of Murray's verbal corrections, and the only ones retained by Alger, in his _improved, recopy-righted edition_ of Murray's Exercises.

Yet, in each of them, is the argumentation palpably false! In the former, truly, _which_ should be _who_; but not because _which_ is "of the _neuter gender_;" but because the application of that relative to _persons_, is now nearly obsolete.