The Comic English Grammar: A New And Facetious Introduction To The English Tongue

e kinds; namely, the Personal, the

word used instead of a noun, we did not mean to call such words as

in the English language, we shall have nothing to do, at pr

F THE PERSON

don't be pe

not,

am,

say, Sir?-te

up for the cloth; and you insinnivated that certain parties dined off goose by means of

" width

vot I says I

ke vax, as th

mean by

I say

a individ

e anoth

no gentle

a humbu

e a kna

e a rog

a wagab

a willa

a tailo

Sir!" (Order! order

t things one word serves to express in English! A pronoun may be

namely, I, thou, he, she, it; with

mit of person, numbe

three persons

e Sin

he firs

the secon

it, is the t

he p

he first

is the se

the thi

ry intelligible when the following

E

e, Susan,

he maiden

es single

èr weds a l

me work to

th me, and

H

e oft by me

eserve to

t there's my

s, women ca

st person; those spoken to, of the sec

the first is the mos

ch adulation and flattery, and

of; and, amongst other grievances, suffers a grea

substantives, are, as we have already

his practice most probably arose from a notion, that to be thought twice the man that the speaker was, gratif

" instead of "I,

which pronouns, as well as in the wearing of broad-brimmed ha

singular of the pronouns, he, she, it. He

h substantives; the nominative,

e hardest cases to be m

pronouns are

ee pag

ON SINGULAR. FIR

. I

Mine

. M

D PERSON. S

hou Ye

Thine

The

erved, has genders; and we shall therefore decl

ERSON S

ASC. FE

He Sh

His He

Him H

. PL

. T

. Th

. T

the third person plural ha

OF THE RELAT

ed the antecedent, on account of its going before: they are, who, which, and that: as, "The man

relative, containing both the antecedent and the relative; as, "You want what

ife; as, "He is a gentleman who keeps a horse and lives respecta

repetition of who and which, and is applied both to perso

house that

to what we observed just now, he is both singular and plural

See Pa

AR AND

t are indeclinable; except that whose is som

oor dear, l

hart was by

stions, are called Interrogatives; as, "Who is Mr. Wal

s the d

that which is sometimes used for whereas, and words of like signific

ereby you would fa

one day in anger c

e I have been his s

me worse than sweeth

enerally substituted by cabmen and hack-drive

ot sweeps t

ulgar, who use as in its place; as, "Them as asks sh

OF THE ADJECT

adjectives. They may be subdivided into four sorts: the posses

possession or property. Of these there are sev

self, says I." Self is also sometimes used with personal pronouns; as, him

inal

ings' separately, which, when taken together, make up a number. Each is used when two or

to one out o

orse, but every ho

s to one out

ween two jo

nave on ei

her;" as, "Neither of the

h they relate; such are this and that, with their plurals these and

or last mentioned; that to the most distant, and to the former

the ancient and modern ecclesiastical systems was observed; for while th

r subjects in an indefinite or general mann

other, those who do not know better, are accustome

r sometimes, instead of saying quite the reverse, or perhaps

for the