. The comic English grammar : a new and facetious introduction to the English tongue . properly, wot, is generallysubstituted by cabmen and costermongers for 7vho ; as,■ The donkey wot wouldnt go. The man wot sweepsthe crossing. That, likewise, is very frequently rejected by the vulgar,who use as in its place ; as, Them as asks shant haveany; and them as dont ask dont Mant HI. OF THE ADJECTIVE PRONOUNS. Adjective pronouns partake of the nature of both pro-nouns and adjectives. They may be subdivided into foursorts : the possessive, the distributive, the demonstrative,and the indefi
. The comic English grammar : a new and facetious introduction to the English tongue . properly, wot, is generallysubstituted by cabmen and costermongers for 7vho ; as,■ The donkey wot wouldnt go. The man wot sweepsthe crossing. That, likewise, is very frequently rejected by the vulgar,who use as in its place ; as, Them as asks shant haveany; and them as dont ask dont Mant HI. OF THE ADJECTIVE PRONOUNS. Adjective pronouns partake of the nature of both pro-nouns and adjectives. They may be subdivided into foursorts : the possessive, the distributive, the demonstrative,and the indefinite. The possessive pronouns are those which imply posses- * See Warrens Ode to Kitty of Shoe Lane, Advertisements,London Press, passim. 54 THE COMIC ENGLISH GKAMMAK. siou of property. Of these there are seven ; namely, ?«y,thy, his, her, our, your, their. The word self is added to possesslves ; as, myself, yom--self: Says I to myself, says I. Self is also sometimesused with personal pronouns; as, himself, itself, them,selves. His self is a common, but not a proper SELF-ESTEEM. The distributive are three : each, every, either ; they de-note the individual persons or things separately, which,when taken together, make up a number. Each is used when two or more persons or things arementioned singly; as, each of the Catos ; each of theBrowns. Every relates to one out of several; as, Every mare isa horse, but every hn-se is not a mare. Eithir refers to oae out of : as, ETYMOLOGY. 55 When I between two jockeys ride,I have a knave on either side. Neither signifies not either; as ■^Neither of theBacons was related to Hogg. The demonstrative pronouns precisely point out thesubjects to which they relate; such are this and that, withtheir plurals these and those; as, This is a foreignPrince ; that is an English Peer. This refers to the nearest person or thing, and to thelatter or last mentioned ; that to the most distant, and tothe former or first mentioned; as, Th
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