Chapter V: Pronouns

CORRECTIONS IN THE FORMS AND USES OF PRONOUNS.

LESSON I.--RELATIVES.

"_While_ we attend to this pause, every appearance of _singsong_ must be carefully avoided."--_Murray cor._ "For thou shalt go to all _to whom_ I shall send thee."--_Bible cor._ "Ah! how happy would it have been for me, had I spent in retirement these twenty-three years _during which_ I have possessed my kingdom."--_Sanborn cor._ "In the same manner _in which_ relative pronouns and their antecedents are usually parsed."--_Id._ "Parse or _explain_ all the other nouns _contained_ in the examples, _after the very_ manner _of_ the word _which is parsed for you_."--_Id._ "The passive verb will always _have_ the person and number that _belong_ to the verb _be_, of which it is in part composed."--_Id._ "You have been taught that a verb must always _agree in_ person and number _with_ it subject or nominative."--_Id._ "A relative pronoun, also, must always _agree in_ person, _in_ number, and even _in_ gender, _with_ its antecedent."--_Id._ "The _answer_ always _agrees_ in case _with the pronoun_ which asks the question."--_Id._ "_One_ sometimes represents an antecedent noun, in the definite manner of a personal pronoun." [529]--_Id._ "The mind, being carried forward to the time _at which the_ event _is to happen_, easily conceives it to be present." "SAVE and SAVING are [_seldom to be_] parsed in the manner _in which_ EXCEPT and EXCEPTING are [commonly explained]."--_Id._ "Adverbs qualify _verbs_, or modify _their_ meaning, _as_ adjectives _qualify_ nouns [and describe things.]"--_Id._ "The third person singular of verbs, _terminates in s_ or _es, like_ the plural number of nouns."--_Id._ "He saith further: that, 'The apostles did not baptize anew such persons _as_ had been baptized with the baptism of John.'"--_Barclay cor._ "For we _who_ live,"--or, "For we _that are alive_, are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake."--_Bible cor._ "For they _who_ believe in God, must be careful to maintain good works."--_Barclay cor._ "Nor yet of those _who_ teach things _that_ they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake."--_Id._ "So as to hold such bound in heaven _as_ they bind on earth, and such loosed in heaven _as_ they loose on earth."--_Id._ "Now, if it be an evil, to do any thing out of strife; then such things _as_ are seen so to be done, are they not to be avoided and forsaken?"--_Id._ "All such _as_ do not satisfy themselves with the superfices of religion."--_Id._ "And he is the same in substance, _that_ he was upon earth,--_the same_ in spirit, soul, and body."--_Id._ "And those that do not thus, are such, _as_ the Church of Rome can have no charity _for_." Or: "And those that do not thus, are _persons toward_ whom the Church of Rome can have no charity."--_Id._ "Before his book, he _places_ a great list of _what_ he accounts the blasphemous assertions of the Quakers."--_Id._ "And this is _what_ he should have proved."--_Id._ "Three of _whom_ were at that time actual students of philosophy in the university."--_Id._ "Therefore it is not lawful for any _whomsoever_ * * * to force the consciences of others."--_Id._ "_Why were_ the former days better than these?"--_Bible cor._ "In the same manner _in which_"--or, better, "_Just as_--the term _my_ depends on the name _books_."--_Peirce cor._ "_Just as_ the term HOUSE depends on the [preposition _to_, understood after the _adjective_] NEAR."--_Id._ "James died on the day _on which_ Henry returned."--_Id._

LESSON II.--DECLENSIONS.

"OTHER makes the plural OTHERS, when it is found without _its_ substantive."--_Priestley cor._ "But _his, hers, ours, yours_, and _theirs_, have evidently the form of the possessive case."--_Lowth cor._ "To the Saxon possessive cases, _hire, ure, eower, hira_, (that is, _hers, ours, yours, theirs_,) we have added the _s_, the characteristic of the possessive case of nouns."--_Id._ "Upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both _theirs_ and _ours_."--_Friends cor._ "In this place, _His_ is clearly preferable either to _Her_ or _to Its_."--_Harris cor._ "That roguish leer of _yours_ makes a pretty woman's heart _ache_."--_Addison cor._ "Lest by any means this liberty of _yours_ become a stumbling-block."--_Bible cor._ "First person: Sing. I, _my or_ mine, me; Plur. we, _our or ours_, us."--_Wilbur and Livingston cor._ "Second person: Sing, thou, _thy or_ thine, thee; Plur. ye or you, _your or yours_, you."--_Iid._ "Third person: Sing, she, _her or hers_, her; Plur. they, _their or theirs_, them."--_Iid._ "So shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not _yours_."--ALGER, BRUCE, ET AL.; _Jer._, v, 19. "Second person, Singular: Nom. _thou_, Poss. _thy_ or _thine_, Obj. _thee_."--_Frost cor._ "Second person, Dual; Nom. Gyt, ye two; Gen. Incer, of _you_ two; Dat. Inc, incrum, to _you_ two; Acc. Inc, _you_ two; Voc. Eala inc, O ye two; Abl. Inc, incrum, from _you_ two."--_Gwilt cor._ "Second person, Plural: Nom. Ge, ye; Gen. Eower, of _you_; Dat. Eow, to _you_; Acc. Eow, _you_; Voc Eala ge, O ye; Abl. Eow, from _you_."--_Id._ "These words are, _mine, thine, his, hers, ours, yours, theirs_, and _whose_."--_Cardell cor._ "This house is _ours_, and that is _yours. Theirs_ is very commodious."--_Murray's Gram._, p. 55. "And they shall eat up _thy_ harvest, and thy bread; they shall eat up thy flocks and _thy_ herds."--_Bible cor._ "_Whoever_ and _Whichever_ are thus declined: Sing. Nom. whoever, Poss. _whosever_, Obj. whomever; Plur. Nom. whoever, Poss. _whosever_, Obj. whomever. Sing. Nom. whichever, Poss. (_wanting_,) Obj. whichever; Plur. Nom. whichever, Poss. (_wanting_,) Obj. whichever."--_Cooper cor._ "The compound personal pronouns are thus declined: Sing. Nom. myself, Poss. (_wanting_,) Obj. myself; Plur. Nom. ourselves, Poss. (_wanting_,) Obj. ourselves. Sing. Nom. thyself or yourself, Poss. (_wanting_,) Obj. thyself, &c."--_Perley cor._ "Every one of us, each for _himself_, laboured to recover him."--_Sidney cor._ "Unless when ideas of their opposites manifestly suggest _themselves_."--_Wright cor._ "It not only exists in time, but is _itself_ time." "A position which the action _itself_ will palpably _confute_."--_Id._ "A difficulty sometimes presents _itself_."--_Id._ "They are sometimes explanations in _themselves_."--_Id._ "_Ours, Yours, Theirs, Hers, Its_."--_Barrett cor._

"_Theirs_, the wild _chase_ of false felicities;
His, the composed possession of the true."
--_Young, N. Th._, N. viii, l. 1100.

LESSON III.--MIXED EXAMPLES.

"It is the boast of Americans, without distinction of parties, that their government is the most free and perfect _that_ exists on the earth."--_Dr. Allen cor._ "Children _that_ are dutiful to their parents, enjoy great prosperity."--_Sanborn cor._ "The scholar _that_ improves his time, sets an example worthy of imitation."--_Id._ "Nouns and pronouns _that_ signify the same person, place, or thing, agree in case."--_Cooper cor._ "An interrogative sentence is one _that_ asks a question."--_Id._ "In the use of words and phrases _that_ in point of time relate to each other, _the order of time_ should be _duly regarded_."--_Id._ "The same observations _that show_ the effect of the article _upon_ the participle, appear to be applicable [also] to the pronoun and participle."--_Murray cor._ "The reason _why_ they have not the same use of them in reading, may be traced to the very defective and erroneous method in which the art of reading is taught."--_Id._ "_Ever since_ reason began to exert her powers, thought, during our waking hours, has been active in every breast, without a moment's suspension or pause."--_Id. et al. cor._ "In speaking of _such as_ greatly delight in the same."--_Pope cor._ "Except _him to whom_ the king shall hold out the golden sceptre, that he may live."--_Bible cor._ "But the same day _on which_ Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all."--_Bible cor._ "In the next place, I will explain several _constructions_ of nouns and pronouns, _that_ have not yet come under our notice."--_Kirkham cor._ "Three natural distinctions of time are all _that_ can exist."--_Hall cor._ "We have exhibited such only as are obviously distinct; and _these_ seem to be sufficient, and not more than sufficient."--_Murray et al. cor._ "_The parenthesis_ encloses a _phrase or clause that_ may be omitted without materially injuring the connexion of the other members."--_Hall cor._ "Consonants are letters _that_ cannot be sounded without the aid of a vowel."--_Bucke cor._ "Words are not _mere_ sounds, but sounds _that_ convey a meaning to the mind."--_Id._ "Nature's postures are always easy; and, _what_ is more, nothing but your own will can put you out of them."--_Collier cor._ "Therefore ought we to examine our _own selves_, and prove our _own selves_."--_Barclay cor._ "Certainly, it had been much more natural, to have divided Active verbs into _Immanent_, or _those whose_ action is terminated _within itself_, and _Transient_, or _those whose_ action is terminated in something without _itself_."--_R. Johnson cor._ "This is such an advantage _as_ no other lexicon will afford."--_Dr. Taylor cor._ "For these reasons, such liberties are taken in the Hebrew tongue, with those words _which_ are of the most general and frequent use."--_Pike cor._ "_While_ we object to the _laws which_ the antiquarian in language would impose on us, we must _also_ enter our protest against those _authors who_ are too fond of innovations."--_L. Murray cor._