The comic English grammar [electronic resource]: a new and facetious introduction to the English tongue . her of them: as, Two-and-sixpence ishalf-a-crown. Due regard, however, should be paid tothat noun which is most naturally the subject of the verb :it would be clearly wrong to say, Ducks and green peasis a delicacy. Fleas is a nuisance. A nominative case, standing without a personal tenseof a verb, and being put before a participle, independentlyof the rest of the sentence, is called a case absolute : as, My brethren, to-morrow being Sunday, I shall preach asermon in Smithfield; after whic
The comic English grammar [electronic resource]: a new and facetious introduction to the English tongue . her of them: as, Two-and-sixpence ishalf-a-crown. Due regard, however, should be paid tothat noun which is most naturally the subject of the verb :it would be clearly wrong to say, Ducks and green peasis a delicacy. Fleas is a nuisance. A nominative case, standing without a personal tenseof a verb, and being put before a participle, independentlyof the rest of the sentence, is called a case absolute : as, My brethren, to-morrow being Sunday, I shall preach asermon in Smithfield; after which we shall join in ahymn, and that having been sung, Brother Biggs will ad-dress you. The objective case is sometimes incorrectly made abso-lute by showmen and otheis : as, Here, gentlemen andladies, you will see that great warrior Napoleon Bona-parte, standing agin a tree with his hands in his pockets,him taking good care to keep out of harms vay. Andthere, on the extreme right, you will observe the DukyVellington a valking about amidst the red-hot cannonballs, him not eairing von straw. SYNTAX. -89. RULE II. Two or more singular nouns, joined together by a copu-lative conjunction, expressed or understood, are equivalentto a plural noun, and therefore require verbs, nouns, andpronouns, agreeing with them in the plural number: as, Veal, wine, and vinegar, (take care how you pronouncethese words,) are very good victuals, I vow. Burkeand Hare were nice men. A hat without a crown, atattered coat, threadbare and out- at elbows, a pair ofbreeches which looked like a piece of dirty patchworkdiversified by various holes, and of boots which a Jewwould hardly have raked from a kennel, at once pro-claimed him a man who had seen better days. This rule is not always adhered to in discourse quite soclosely as a fastidious ear would require it to be: as, And so, you know, Mary, and I, and Jane ivas a dustingthe chairs, and in comes Missus. 90 THE COMIC ENGLISH GRAMMAR. RULE III. When the con
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