LESSON II.—DECLENSIONS.
“Other makes the plural others, when it is found without it’s substantive.”—Priestley’s Gram., p. 12.
[FORMULE.—Not proper, because the pronoun it’s is written with an apostrophe. But, according to Observation 25th, on the Declensions of Pronouns, “The possessive case of pronouns should never be written with an apostrophe.” Therefore, this apostrophe should be omitted; thus, “Other makes the plural others, when it is found without its substantive.”]
“But his, her’s, our’s, your’s, their’s, have evidently the form of the possessive case.”—Lowth’s Gram., p. 23. “To the Saxon possessive cases, hire, ure, eower, hira, (that is, her’s, our’s, your’s, their’s,) we have added the s, the characteristic of the possessive case of nouns.”—Ib., p. 23. “Upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both their’s and our’s.”—FRIENDS’ BIBLE: 1 Cor., i, 2. “In this Place His Hand is clearly preferable either to Her’s or It’s.” [220]—Harris’s Hermes, p. 59. “That roguish leer of your’s makes a pretty woman’s heart ake.”—ADDISON: in Joh. Dict. “Lest by any means this liberty of your’s become a stumbling-block.”—FRIENDS’ BIBLE: 1 Cor., viii, 9. “First person: Sing. I, mine, me; Plur. we, our’s, us.”—Wilbur and Livingston’s Gram., p. 16. “Second person: Sing. thou, thine, thee; Plur. ye or you, your’s,