UNDER NOTE VII.—­FORMS ADAPTED TO DIFFERENT STYLES.

1.  Forms adapted to the Common or Familiar Style. “Was it thou[538] that built that house?”—­Brown’s Institutes, Key, p. 270.  “That boy writes very elegantly.”—­Ib.  “Could not thou write without blotting thy book?”—­Ib.  “Dost not thou think—­or, Don’t thou think, it will rain to-day?”—­Ib.  “Does not—­or, Don’t your cousin intend to visit you?”—­Ib. “That boy has torn my book.”—­Ib. “Was it thou that spread the hay?”—­Ib. “Was it James, or thou, that let him in?”—­Ib. “He dares not say a word.”—­Ib. “Thou stood in my way and hindered me.”—­Ib.

“Whom do I see?—­Whom dost thou see now?—­Whom does he see?—­Whom dost thou love most?—­What art thou doing to-day?—­What person dost thou see teaching that boy?—­He has two new knives.—­Which road dost thou take?—­What child is he teaching?”—­Ingersoll cor. “Thou, who mak’st my shoes, sellst many more.”  Or thus:  “You, who make my shoes, sell many more.”—­Id.

“The English language has been much cultivated during the last two hundred years.  It has been considerably polished and refined.”—­Lowth cor. “This style is ostentatious, and does not suit grave writing.”—­Priestley cor. “But custom has now appropriated who to persons, and which to things” [and brute animals].—­Id. “The indicative mood shows or declares something; as, Ego amo, I love; or else asks a question; as, Amas tu?  Dost thou love?”—­Paul’s Ac. cor. “Though thou cannot do much for the cause, thou may and should do something.”—­Murray cor. “The support of so many of his relations, was a heavy tax:  but thou knowst (or, you know) he paid it cheerfully.”—­Id. “It may, and often does, come short of it.”—­Murray^s Gram., p. 359.

   “’Twas thou, who, while thou seem’d to chide,
    To give me all thy pittance tried.”—­Mitford cor.

2. Forms adapted to the Solemn or Biblical Style.  “The Lord hath prepared his throne in the heavens; and his kingdom ruleth over all.”—­Psalms, ciii, 19.  “Thou answeredst them, O Lord our God; thou wast a God that forgave[539] them, though thou tookest vengeance of their inventions.”—­See Psalms, xcix, 8.  “Then thou spakest in vision to thy Holy One, and saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty.”—­Ib., lxxxix, 19. “’So then, it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy;’ who dispenseth his blessings, whether temporal or spiritual, as seemeth good in his sight.”—­Christian Experience of St. Paul, p. 344; see Rom., ix, 16.