. The comic English grammar; a new and facetious introduction to the English tongue . is acquainted with all sorts oiplants. 68 THE COMIC ENGLISH GRAMMAR. CHAPTER V. OF PRONOUNS. Pronouns or proxy-nouns are of three kinds;namely, the Personal, the Relative, and the Ad-jective Pronouns. Note.—That when we said, some few pages back,that a pronoun was a word used instead of a noun,we did not mean to call such words as thingumi-bob, whatsiname, what-dye-call-it, and the like,pronouns. And that, although we shall proceed to treat ofthe pronouns in the English language, we shallhave nothing to do, a
. The comic English grammar; a new and facetious introduction to the English tongue . is acquainted with all sorts oiplants. 68 THE COMIC ENGLISH GRAMMAR. CHAPTER V. OF PRONOUNS. Pronouns or proxy-nouns are of three kinds;namely, the Personal, the Relative, and the Ad-jective Pronouns. Note.—That when we said, some few pages back,that a pronoun was a word used instead of a noun,we did not mean to call such words as thingumi-bob, whatsiname, what-dye-call-it, and the like,pronouns. And that, although we shall proceed to treat ofthe pronouns in the English language, we shallhave nothing to do, at present, with what somepeople please to call •^Yo\\o\x\\-ciatiun. SECTION I. OK TIIK rKKSONAI, IltONOlNS, Mr. Haddams, dont be personal, Sir! I m not. Sir. You bar. Sir ! What did I say, Sir ?—tell me that. ETYMOLOGY. 69 You reflected on my perfession, Sir; you said,as there was some people as always stuck up forthe cloth ; and you insinnivated that certain partiesdined oif goose by means of cahhaging from theparish. I ask any gentleman in the westry, if thatant personal?. A SELECT VESTRY. 70 THE COMIC ENGLISH GRAMMAR. Veil, Sir, vot I says I 11 stick to. Yes, Sir, like vax, as the saying is.« Wot dye mean by that. Sir?« Wot I say. Sir ! You re a individual, Sir ! You Ve another, Sir! You re no gentleman, Sir ! You re a humbug, Sir ! You re a knave. Sir ! You re a rogue. Sir ! You re a wagabond. Sir! You re a willain. Sir !Youre a tailor, Sir! You re a cobbler, Sir ! (Order! order ! chair!chair! &c.) The above is what is called personal many different things one word serves toexpress in English! A pronoun may be as per-sonal as possible, and yet nobody will take offenceat it. There are five Personal Pronouns; namely, I,thou, he, she, it; with their plurals, we, ye or you,they. Personal Pronouns admit of i)erson, number,gender, and case. Pronouns have three persons in each number. ETYMOLOGY. 71 In the Singular; I, is the first person. Thou, is the second p
Size: 1468px × 1703px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthorleighpercival18131889, bookcentury1800, bookdecade1840
