Outlines of English Grammar as Evolved from the Language Itself (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 Excerpt: ...the stone, --it; the men, the girl, the stone, --they. Also, when the pronoun represents the noun in its construction, it takes its case. EXHIBITED FORM. Person. Singular. Plural. Gender. First Person. /, the male or JI, speaker, and Not marked female speaking.' I those with me. / by form. IV. CASE. 7. Case is that property of the substantive which denotes its relation to some other word. Example.--" The master promoted Ellen's brother." 8. There are three cases, --the nominative, the possessive, and the objective. 9. The nominative case is the simplest form of the substantive, and is commonly used as the subject of a proposition. Examples.--George speaks; /hear; you see; he runs; they walk. 10. The possessive case denotes the relation of the possessor to the object possessed. Examples.--David's harp; his book; my hat; their pens. 11. The objective case denotes the relation of the substantive as object of a transitive verb or preposition. Examples.--The men (they) found the boy (him); the boy (he) was found by the men (them). The possessive case is formed by adding the apostrophe ( ' ) and the letter s to the nomiantive of nouns in the singular; so, also, in the plural, when that is formed by internal inflection; otherwise, the apostrophe only is added. Examples.--Man, man's; men, men's; tooth, tooth's; teeth, teeth's; boys, boys'; pens, pens'. Special Point.--Notice that master in example under I, above, is the subject, and is in the subjective relation, or case, commonly called the nominative case; Ellens shows whose brother is named, and marks by its inflection or change of form the possessor, and is in the possessive case. Brother, standing over against--that is, as object to--master, and being a different party directly acted upon (promoted) by ...