The comic English grammar [electronic resource]: a new and facetious introduction to the English tongue . rectly pronounced) is sometimesused in a manner which is very exceptionable : as, Thegentleman wot keeps the wine vaults. None but loverscan feel for them wot loves. We mention this error oncemore, in order to insure its abandonment. The objective case of the personal pronouns is by some,for want of better information, employed in the place ofthese and those: as, Let them .things alone. Now,then, Jemes, make haste with them chops. Give themtables a wipe. Oh ! Julier, turn them heyes away W
The comic English grammar [electronic resource]: a new and facetious introduction to the English tongue . rectly pronounced) is sometimesused in a manner which is very exceptionable : as, Thegentleman wot keeps the wine vaults. None but loverscan feel for them wot loves. We mention this error oncemore, in order to insure its abandonment. The objective case of the personal pronouns is by some,for want of better information, employed in the place ofthese and those: as, Let them .things alone. Now,then, Jemes, make haste with them chops. Give themtables a wipe. Oh ! Julier, turn them heyes away Whats the use o mancipatin them niggers ? Dontyou wish you was one of them lobsters ? I think themshawls so pretty! Look at them sleeves. The ad-verb there, is sometimes, with additional impropriety,joined to the pronoun them : as, Look after them theresheep. The objective case of a pronoun in the first person isput after the interjections Oh ! and Ah ! as, Oh! dearme, &c. The second person, however, requires a nomi-native case: as, Oh! you good-for-nothing man. Ah ! thou gay Lothario ! SYNTAX. 93. f Oh ! you good-for-nothing man ! EULE VI. When there is no nominative case between the relativeand the verb, the relative itself is the nominative to theverb; as, The master who flogged us. The rods whichwere used. But when the nominative comes between the relativeand the verb, the relative changes, as it were, the characterof sire for that of son, and becomes the governed instead ofthe governor, depending for its case on some word in itsown member of the sentence ; as, He who is now at thehead of affairs, whom the Queen delighteth to honour,whose Pavilion (if the Court had been there) might havebeen at Brighton, and to whom is intrusted the helm ofstate—is a Lamb. 94 THE COMIC ENGLISH GEAMMAS Well, it is to be hoped that he will get on in his boat alittle better than a bear; though why that animal is con-sidered so peculiarly at sea when on the water, we cannottell. Man is the onl
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