you.”—
Ib. “Third person:
Sing. she, her’s, her; Plur. they, their’s,
them.”—
Ib. “So shall
ye serve strangers in a land that is not your’s.”—SCOTT
ET AL.:
Jer., v, 19. “Second
person, Singular: Nom. thou or you, Poss. thine
or yours, Obj. thee or you.”—
Frost’s
El. of E. Gram., p. 13. “Second person,
Dual: Nom. Gyt, ye two; Gen. Incer, of ye
two; Dat. Inc, incrum, to ye two; Acc. Inc,
ye two; Voc. Eala inc, O ye two; Abl. Inc,
incrum, from ye two.”—
Gwill’s
Saxon Gram., p. 12. “Second person,
Plural; Nom. Ge, ye; Gen. Eower, of ye; Dat.
Eow, to ye; Acc. Eow, ye; Voc. Eala ge,
O ye; Abl. Eow, from ye.”—
Ib.
(
written in 1829.) “These words are,
mine, thine, his, her’s, our’s, your’s,
their’s, and
whose.”—
Cardell’s
Essay, p. 88. “This house is
our’s,
and that is
your’s. Their’s
is very commodious.”—
Ib., p.
90. “And they shall eat up thine harvest,
and thy bread: they shall eat up thy flocks and
thine herds.”—
Jeremiah, v,
17. “
Whoever and
Whichever are
thus declined.
Sing. and
Plu. nom. whoever,
poss. whoseever,
obj. whomever.
Sing.
and
Plu. nom. whichever,
poss. whoseever,
obj. whichever.”—
Cooper’s
Plain and Practical Gram., p. 38. “The
compound personal pronouns are thus declined;
Sing.
N. Myself,
P. my-own,
O. myself;
Plur. N. ourselves,
P. our-own,
O. ourselves.
Sing. N. Thyself
or yourself,
P. thy-own or your-own,
O.
thyself or yourself;” &c.—
Perley’s
Gram., p. 16. “Every one of us, each
for hisself, laboured how to recover him.”—SIDNEY:
in Priestley’s Gram., p. 96. “Unless
when ideas of their opposites manifestly suggest their
selves.”—
Wright’s Gram.,
p. 49. “It not only exists in time, but
is time its self.”—
Ib., p.
75. “A position which the action its self
will palpably deny.”—
Ib.,
p. 102. “A difficulty sometimes presents
its self.”—
Ib., p. 165.
“They are sometimes explanations in their selves.”—
Ib.,
p. 249. “Our’s, Your’s, Their’s,
Her’s, It’s.”—
S.
Barrett’s Gram., p. 24.
“Their’s the wild chace
of false felicities:
His, the compos’d possession
of the true.”
—Murray’s
E. Reader, p. 216.
LESSON III.—MIXED.
“It is the boast of Americans, without distinction
of parties, that their government is the most free
and perfect, which exists on the earth.”—Dr.
Allen’s Lectures, p. 18.
[FORMULE.—Not proper, because the relative
which is here intended to be taken in a restrictive
sense. But, according to Observation 26th, on
the Classes of Pronouns, (and others that follow it,)
the word who or which, with a comma
before it, does not usually limit the preceding term.
Therefore, which should be that, and
the comma should be omitted; thus,—“that
their government is the most free and perfect that
exists on the earth.”]