The Grammar of English Grammars eBook

Goold Brown
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 4,149 pages of information about The Grammar of English Grammars.

The Grammar of English Grammars eBook

Goold Brown
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 4,149 pages of information about The Grammar of English Grammars.
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.”]

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