. The comic English grammar : a new and facetious introduction to the English tongue . boxes,That the plural of ox Should be oxen, not oxes, A few Singular Plurals, or Pluzals popularly varied, areas follow :— SINGULAR. PLURAL. Beast Beastes, beastices. Crust Crustes. Gust Gustes. Ghost Ghostes. Host Hostes. Joist Joistes. Mist Mistes. Nest Nestes. Post, &c. Postes, postices, &c. Note.—The singular is often used, by a kind of licenceconceded to persons of refinement, for the plural ; as, May I trouble you for a bean ? Will you assist MissSpriggins to a pea V So also people say, A few green, Tw
. The comic English grammar : a new and facetious introduction to the English tongue . boxes,That the plural of ox Should be oxen, not oxes, A few Singular Plurals, or Pluzals popularly varied, areas follow :— SINGULAR. PLURAL. Beast Beastes, beastices. Crust Crustes. Gust Gustes. Ghost Ghostes. Host Hostes. Joist Joistes. Mist Mistes. Nest Nestes. Post, &c. Postes, postices, &c. Note.—The singular is often used, by a kind of licenceconceded to persons of refinement, for the plural ; as, May I trouble you for a bean ? Will you assist MissSpriggins to a pea V So also people say, A few green, Two or three radish, &c. ETYMOLOGY. 41 SECTION IV. OP CASE. There is nearly as much difFerence between Latin andEnglish substantives, with respect to the number of casespertaining to each, as there is between a quack-doctor anda physician ; for while in Latin substantives have six cases^in English they have but three. But the analogy shouldnot be strained too far; for the fools in the world (whofurnish the quack with his cases) more than double thenumber of the x>^ u~rri A VERY BAD CASE. The cases of substantives are these: the Nominative,the Possessive or Genitive, and the Objective or Accu-sative. 42 THE COMIC ENGLISH GKAMMAR. ITie Nominative Case merely expresses the name of athing, or the subject of the verb: as, The doctors differ ;— The patient dies ! Possession, -which is nine points of the law, is what issignified by the Possessive Case. This case is distin-guished by an apostrophe, with the letter s subjoinedto it: as, My souls idol!— A puddings end. But Avhen the plural ends in s, the apostrophe only isretained, and the Other s is omitted : as, The MinistersStep ;— The Rogues March ;— Crocodiles tears ;—• Butchers mourning. When the singular terminates in ss, the letter s is some-times, in like manner, dispensed with : as, For goodnesssake!—For righteousness sake!—Nevertheless, wehave no objection to Guinnesss Stout. The Objective case foll
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