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INTRODUCTION

TO

ENGLISH GRAMMAR :

WITH

CRITICAL NOTES,

A NEW EDITION , CORRECTED .

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THE

P R E F A C E.

THE Engliſh Language bath been much

cultivated during the laſt two hundred
years. It bath been conſiderably poliſhed and
refined ; its bounds bave been greatly enlarged ;
its energy , variety, richneſs, and elegance, have
been abundantly proved, by numberleſs trials,
in verſe and in proſe, upon all ſubjects, and
in every kind of ſtyle : but, whatever other
improvements it may have received, it bath
made no advances in Grammatical Accuracy.
Hooker is one of the earlieſt writers, of con
fiderable note, within the period above-men
tioned : let his writings be compared with the
beſt of thoſe of modern date ; and, I be
lieve, it will be found, that in correctneſs,
A ? pro
iv PREF A C. E.

propriety , and purity of EngliſhStyle, he hath

hardly been ſurpaſſed , or even equaled, by any
of his ſucceſſors.
It is now about fifty years, fince Doctor
Swift made a public remonftrance, addreſſed to
the Earl of Oxford , then Lord Treaſurer,
concerning the imperfect State of our Lan
guage ; alleging in particular, “ that in many
“ instances it offended againſt every part of
“ Grammar.” Swift muſt be allowed to have
been a good judge of this inatter ; to which he
was himſelf very attentive, both in his own
writings, and in his remarks upon thoſe of
bis friends : he is one of the moſt correct, and
perhaps the beſt of our proſe writers . In
deed the jujineſs of this complaint, as far as I
can find , hath never been queſtioned ; and yet
no ej'e £ tual method bath hitherto been taken
to redreſs the grievance, which was the ab
jeềt of it. tie
But let us conſider, bow, and in what ex
tent, we are to underſtand this charge brcugbt
againſt the Engliſh Language : for the Author
ſeems not to have explained himſelf with ſuf
ficient
 PREÉ FACE . V

ficient clearneſs and preciſion on this head.

Does it mean, that the Engliſh Language, as
it is ſpoken by the politeſt part of the nation,
and as it ſtands in the writings of our moſt
approved authors, often offends againſt every
part of Grammar ? Thus far, I am afraid,
the charge is truě. 'Or does it further imply,
that our Language is in its nature irregular
and capricious ; not hitherto ſubject, nor eas
fily reducible, to a Syſtem of rules ? In this
reſpect, I am perſuaded, the cherge is wholly
without foundation.
The Engliſh Languageis perhaps of all the
preſent European Languages by much the moſt
fimple in its form and conſtruction. Of all
the antient Languages extant That is the moſt
fimple, which is undoubtedly the moſt antient ;
but even that Language itſelf does not equal
the Engliſh in fimplicity.
Thewords of the Engliſh Language are per
haps ſubje &t to fever variations from their
original form , than thoſe of any other. Its
Subſtantives have but one variation of Caſe ;
nor kave they any diſtinčtion of Gender , be
A 3 ſide
vi R - RE : A CE.
F
fide that which nature hath made. Its Ad
jestivesadmit of nochange at all, except that
which expreſſes the degrees of compariſon . All
the poſſible variations of the original form of
the Verh are not above fix or ſeven ; whereas
in many Languages, they amount to some hun
dreds; and almost the whole buſineſs of Modes,
Times, and Veices, is managed with great eaſe
by the alliſtance of eight or nine commodious
little Kerbs, called from their uſe Auxiliaries.
The Conſtruction of this Language is ſo eaſy
and obvious, that our Grammarians have

thought it hardly worth while to give us any

thing like a regular and Syſtematical Syntax,
The Engliſh Grammar, which hath been last
preſented to the public,and by the Perſon beſt
qualified to bave given us a perfe &t one , come
priſes the whole. Syntax in ten lines : for this
reaſon ; " becauſe our Language, kas ſo little
inflexion, that its conſtruction neitherrequires
nor admits many rules.". In truth, the
eofier any ſubje&t is in its own nature, the
barder is it to make it more eaſy by explana.
tion ; and nothing is more. unneceſery, and at.
the
 P R E FACE
.. vii

the ſame time commonly more difficult, than to

give à demonftration in form of a propoſition
almoſt felf -evident
fi doth not then proceed from any peculiar
irregularity or difficulty of our Language, that
the general praftice both of Speaking and writ
ing it is chargeable with inaccuracy. It is
not the Language, but the practice, that is in
fault. The truth is, Grammar is very much
negleEted among us : ' and it is not the difficulty
of the Language, but on the contrary the fim
plicity and facility of it, that occaſions this
neglect. Were the Language leſs eaſy and
fimple, we ſhould find ourſelves under a neceſſity
of ſtudying it with more care and attention.
But as it is, we take it for granted, that we
have a competent knowledge and ſkill, and are
able to acquit ourſelves properly, in our own
native tongue : a faculty, ſolely acquired by
uſe, conducted by habit, and tried by the ear ,
carries us on without reflexion ; we meet with
no rubs or difficulties in our way, or we do
not perceive them we find ourſelves able to
AA 4 go
viij PRE-FA- C - E .

go on without rules, and we do not so much

as ſuſpect, that we ſtand in need of them . ·
A Grammatical Study of our own Lan
guage makes no part of the ordinary method of
inſtruction , which we paſs through in our
childhood , and it is very feldom that we ap
ply ourſelves to it afterwards. Yet the want
of it will not be effe £tually ſupplied by any
other advantages whatſoever. Much prac
tice in the polite world , and a general ac
quaintance with the beſt authors, are good
helps ; but alone will hardly be ſufficient : we

have writers, who have enjoyed theſe ad

vantages in their full extent, and yet cannot
be recommended as models of an accurate ſtyle.
Much leſs they will what is commonly called.
Learning ſerve the purpoſe ; that is, a critie
£al knowledge of antient Languages, andmuch
reading of ancient authors ; the greateſtCritic
and moſt able. Grammarian of the laſt age ,
when he came to apply bis Learning and bis
Criticiſm to an Engliſh Author, was frequent
ly at a loſs in matters of ordinary uſe and
common
 PRE FAC.-E. . ix

common conftru &tion in his own Vernacular

Idiom .

But perhaps the Notes ſubjoined to the fol

lowing pages will furniſh a more convincing
argument, than any thing that can be ſaid
bere, both of the truth of the charge of Inac
curacy brought againſt our Language, as it
fubfifts in Praktice ; and of the neceſity of in
veſtigating the Principles of it, and ſtudying it
Grammatically, if we would attain to a due
degree of ſkill in it. It is with reaſon ex
pected of every perſon of a liberal education ,
and it is indiſpenſably required of every one
who undertakes to inform or entertain the
public, that he should be able to expreſs bim
ſelf with propriety und accuracy. It will
evidently appear from theſe Notes, that our
beſt authors have committed grofs miſtakes,
for want of a due knowledge of Engliſh Gram
mar , or at leaſt of a proper attention to the
rules of it . The examples there given are
ſuch as occurred in reading, without any very
curious or methodical examination : and they
might eaſily have been much increaſed in nun
ber
 PRE FAē E.

ber by any one, who had leiſure or phlegnt

enough to go through a regular courſe of read
ing with this particular view . However, 1
believe, they may be ſufficient to anſwer the
purpoſe intended ; to evince theneceſſity of the
Study of Grammar in our own Language ;
and to admoniſh thoſe, who fet up for at
thors among us, that they would do well to .
confider this part of Learning as an objeet
not oltogether beneath their regard .
The principal deſign of a Grammar of any
Language is to teach us to expreſs ourſelves
with propriety in that Language ; and to en
able us to judge of every phraſe and form of
conſtruction, whether it be right or not. Tbe

Plain way of doing this.is, to lay down rules,

and to illuſtrate them by examples. But, be
fide sewing what is right, the matter may be
further explained by pointing out what is
wrong . I will not take upon me to ſay,whe
tber we bave any Grammar , that fufficiently.
inftruēts us by rule and example ; but I am
ſure we have none, that, in the manner bere
attempted, teaches us what is right by Jewe
ing
 PRE FACE. xi

ing what is wrong ; though this perhaps may

prove the more uſeful and effectual method of
inſtručljon .
Beſide this principal deſign, of Grammer in
our own Language, there is a ſecondary uſe ta
wbicb it may be applied ; and which , I think,
is not attended to as it deſerves the facili
tating of the acquiſition of other Languages ,
whether antient or modern . A good founda
tion in the General Principles of Gremmar is

in the first place neceſſary for all thoſe, wha

ere initiated in a learned education , and for
all others likewiſe, who all have occafion to
furniſh themſelves with the knowledge of mo
dern Languages. Univerſal Grammar cannot
be taught abftra & tedly : it muſt be done with .
reference to ſome Language already knoton ;
in which the terms are to be explained, and,
the rules exemplified. The learner is suppoſed
to be unacquainted with all, but his native
tongue ; and in what other, confiftently with
reaſon and commonſenſe, can you go about to
explain it to bim .? Wben be has a competent
knowledge of the moin principles of Grammar
in
 xii PIR ) EI FAC E.

in general, exemplified in his own Language:

be then will apply himſelf with great advant
fage to the study of any other. To enter at
once upon the Science of Grammar, and the
ftudy of a foreign Language, is to encounter,
two dificulties together, each of which would
be much leſſened by being taken ſeparately and
in its proper order. For theſe plain reaſons,
a competent grammatical knowledge of our
own language is the true foundation, upon
which all Literature, properly ſo called, ought
to be raiſed. If this method were adopted in
our Schools ; if children were firſt taught the
common principles of Grammar, by ſome port
and clear Syſtem of Engliſh Grammar, which
happily by its fimplicity and facility is per
beps fitter than that of any other Language
for ſuch a purpoſe ; they would have fome
notion of what they were going about, when
they hould enter into the Latin Grammar ;
and would bardly be engaged ſo many years, as
they now are inthat moſt irkſome and difficult
part of Literature, with ſo much labour of
the
 P R E F , A : CAE. xiii

the memory , and with so little afſtance of

the underſtanding . 1999
.. A deſign ſomewhat of this kind gave occa ,
fion to the following little Syſtem , intended
merely for a private and domeſtic uſe. The
chief end of it was to explain the general
principles of Grammar, as clearly and in
telligibly as poſſible. In the definitions, there
fore, eaſineſs and perfpicuity have been somez
times preferred to logical exa &tneſs. The com
mon diviſions have been complied with , as far
as reaſon and truth would permit. The known
and received terms have been retained ; ex
cept in one or two inſtances, where others of
fered themſelves, which ſeemed much more
fignificant. All diſquiſitions, which appeared
to have more of ſubtilty than of uſefulneſs in
them , have been avoided. In a word , it was
calculated for the uſe of the learner , even of
the loweſt claſs. Tboſe, who would enter
more deeply into this Subje £t, will find it fully
and accurately,bandled ,with the greateſt acute :
neſs of inveſtigation, perfpicuity of explica
tion , and elegance of method, in a treatiſe
intitled
xiy P R E FACE.

intitled Hermes , by James Harris, Eſq;

the moſt beautiful and perfe&t example of
Analyſis, that has been exhibited ſince the
days of Ariſtotle .
The author is greatly obliged to ſeveral
Learned Gentlemen , who have favoured him
with their remarks upon the firſt Edition,
which was indeed principally deſigned to pro
cure their aſſiſtance, and to try the judgement
of the public. He hath endeavoured to weigh
their obſervations, without prejudice or par
tiality ; and to make the beſt uſe of the lights,
which they have afforded him . He hath been
enabled to correct ſeveral miſtakes; and en
couraged carefully to reviſe the whole, and to
give it all the improvement which his preſent
materials can furniſh. He hopes for the con
tinnance of their favour, as be is ſenſible
there will ſtill be abundant occaſion for it.
A ſyſtem of this kind, ariſing from the col
letion and arrangement of a multitude of
minute particulars, which often elude the moſt
careful ſearch, and ſometimes eſcape obſerva
tion when they are moſt obvious, muft always
4 ſtand
 P R E F A C E ху

ftand in need of improvement. It is indeed

the neceſſary condition of every work of buman
art or ſcience, ſmall as well as great, to ad
vance towards perfection by low degrees ; by
an approximation, which, though it ſtill may
carry it forward, yet will certainly never
bring it to the point to which it tends.

A SHORT
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174
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The Pufact . 3.

17
Grammar
'Letters . 18

22 .
dyllables.
Mordd.. 24 .

Articles 30.

Jubdantwe.
37
Pronoun .
46

Hapuchure. 56.

Vale . 60.

85.
Inequlav val .
111.

heposition - / 13,

Mb
Conjunction .

Inteyition
Sentences 118

Punctration ,
193
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A Paris , 210 ,
 17.

A SHORT

İNTRODUCTION

TO

ENGLISH GRAMMAR .

GRAMMA R.

RAMMAR is the Art of rightly

expreſſing our thoughts by Words.
GR .
Grammar in general, or Univerſal Gram
mar, explains the principles; which are
common to all languages.
The Grammar of any particular. Lan
guage , as the Engliſh Grammar, applies
thoſe common principles to that particular
language; according to the eſtabliſhed uſage
and cuſtom of it .
Grammar treats of Sentences ; and of
the ſeveral parts , of which they are com
pounded .
B Sentences
18 INTRODUCTION TO

Şentepces,confift of Wards . Words, of

one or more Syllables : Sylables, of one or
more Lettersrov 9 : 1 20 pluomi sigait evo
So that Letters , Syllables , Words, and

Sentences , make up the whole fubje & rof

Grammar.

‫' أم‬ ‫مت‬

‫اما آد أن‬ ،. 80
L2 E T, TE IR S .;in
¿ Y. ‫درمراسم‬ 2

LETTER is the firſt Principle , or

A leaſt part, of a Wordalo vori

An Articulate Sound is the found of the

human voice, formed by the organs of
Ipeecha lib

A Vowellis a ſimple articulate found,

ferrued by the impulſe of the voice, and by
the opening only of the mouth in a partit
cular manner. ( 141) A

A Contonant cannot be perfectly founded

by infelf , but joined with a vowel forms
a compound articulate found , by a parti
cular motion or contact of the parts of the
mouth ,
A Dipl
 !
Aa Nr . en .

Bb. bee Oa
see . Pp- pee.
Du dee . kue .
9
e . ar
of. Add efe
It lec .
g jee.
Hh . alohe. Un U
Ii i vee .

Wor double u .

Kk . ha eks
de 42 .
wy .
Mm . em .
Zz -zed .
 ENGLISH GRAMMAR. 19

A Diphthong, or compound vowel , is

the union of twoor more vowels pronounced
by a ſingle impulſe of the voice. :-)
vil leili 109.11

* In Engliſh there are twenty- fix Letters .

A, a ; B, b ; C , C ; D , d ; E , e ;, F, f ;
G , g ; H , h ; I , i ; j, j ; K , k ; 1,1 ; M , m ;
N , n ; 0,0 ; P , p ; 0,9 ; R , r ; S , [ ; T t ;
U , u ; V, v ; W , w ; X , X ; Y, y ; Z , 2.
I j, and V v, are conſonants ; the former
having the ſound of the ſoftg, and the latter
that of a coarſer f : they are therefore in
tirely different from the vowels i and U , and

diftinct letters of themſelves ; they ought

alſo to be diſtinguiſhed from them , each by
a peculiar Name ; the former may be called
je, and the latter vee.
The Names then of the twenty- fix letters
will be as follows , beé, cec, dee, e, éf, gee,
eitch , i, ja , ka, el, em , en , o, pee , cuc, ar , efs,
tee, l, vee , double ju , sex, y, zado
161
... Six of the letters are vowels, and may bę
founded by themſelves ; 4, e, i, o, u , y.
B.2 Eis
 R
T
N O
I l ly gT
ra i n
ne nt e en d rd
le
E is ge cfti at tghth en of a wo ese ;
t s ts ffe n em r
bu inigt ha ie l e in le tehti p
d e w d e d e d m
ce wiſ vo , as bidl , bi : ans dfo
k e l e n t d me r n
li fu in theme m i of tia wo ; as , u
t e i r e n g
a t om s
gr er , crte . S ni ittha no
h f e an a t f te n e
e
ot ng ef , t h
e t
h f
oe f o
em a pr
d i g d g d g y r
d
ce h 8 : oſase, lo , jue , juſar ; fo
c p ſ e
i r it ce eſ
wh d pu e r dits is qu ne in th
e k
an th li wo .
Y is in ſound wholly the ſamewith i ; and
is written inſtead of it at the end of words ;

or before i , as flying, denying : it is retained

likewiſe in ſome words derived from the
Greek ; and it is always a vowel [ 1 ]:

su ] The ſame found, which we expreſs by the ini

tial y, our Saxon Anceſtors in inany inſtances ex
2 prefied by the vowel e ; as power , your: and by the
vowel i; as iWyYEV ; jong, young . In the word yeru ,
C
words vietu , lieu , adieu : the i is acknowledged to be a
Vowel in theſe latter ; how then can they, which has
The very fáme found, poſſibly be a Confonant in the
former ? Its initial found is generally like that of i
in lpire, or ee nearly : it is forined by the opening of
the mouth , without any motion or contact of the
parts : in a word, it has every property of a Vowel,
and not one of a Conſonant.
 ENGLISH GRAMMAR . Q :I

W is either a vowel, or a diphthong ; its

proper found is the ſame as the Italian u ,
the French ou , or the Englifh oo : aftero,
it is fometimes not founded at all ; fome
times like a ſingle u.
The reſt of the letters are conſonants ;
which cannot be founded alone : fome not
at all, and thefe are called Mutes ; b, c, d ,
g, k, p, q, t : others very imperfectly , mak
ing a kind of obſcure found ; and theſe are
called Semi-vowels, or Half- vowels, l, m, n,
ref, s; the firſt four of which are alſo dif
tinguiſhed by the name of Liquids.
The Mutes and the Semi-vowels are dif
tinguiſhed by their names in the Alphabet ;
thoſe of the former all beginning with a
conſonant, bet, cee, &c.; thoſe of the latter
all beginning with a vowel, ef, el, &c.
X is a double confonant, compounded
of c, or k, and so on
013 Z ſeems not to be a double conſonant in

Engliſh , as it is commonly ſuppoſed : it has

the ſame relation to s, as v has to f, being
a thicker and coarſer expreſſion of it.
B 3 His
 INTRODUCTION TO

H is only ani Aſpiration, or Breathing :

and ſometiniest at the beginning of a word
is not foundedlae all , lasi an hour, an honeft
mán . 19 VOV Qi 200 bow sto .

C is pronounced like (k , before a,b , u ;

and foft, like sz before e, i , ht: indikeman le
ner g is pronounced always hárd before a ,
9 , u ; ſometimes hard and fometimes foft

before i, and y ; and for themoſt part fofc

before ė . ' ?

The Engliſh Alphabet, like moſt others ,

is both deficient and redundant ; in foine

caſes, the fame letters expreſſing different

ſounds, and different letters expreſſing the
iame founds. 47
tolist! 417.1

SY L-LA BLES:
opietat
YSYLLABLE is a ſound either ſim
A ple or compounded , pronounced by
a ſingle impulfe of the voice, and conftitut
ing a word or part of a word.r.
Spelling is the art of reading by naming
the letters fingly , and rightly dividing words
into
X
* Heur, hour, honor , & humour,with their de:

rivatives , are themlywordsin the lan =

Juage,in which the A is not founded .

Hauptin proper named , -as bilde; Gim :

merian', which are pronounced Helt
w, Himmerian .
coru spon ing
d
 ENGLISH GRAMMAR. 23

into their fyllables. Orgin writing , it is the

exprefling of a word by its proper ,letters.

5: In ſpelling, a ſyllable in the beginning or

middle of a word ends in a yowel , unleſs
it be followed by * ; or -by -two or more
conſonants : theſe are for ţhe moſt part to
be ſeparated ; and at leaſt one of them al
: ways belongs to the preceding ſyllable,
when the vowel of that fyllable is pro
nounced ſhort. Particles in Compoſition ,
though followed by a vowel , generally rç
main undivided in ſpelling. A mute gene

rally unites with a liquid following ; and a

Jiquid , or a mute, generally ſeparates from
a mute following : le and re are never fe .
parated from a preceding mute. Exam

ples : ma- ni- feft, ex - e-cra-ble, un -e-qual,

mif-ap -ply, diſ-tin -guiſh, cor -reſ -pon-ding.
Bat the beſt and eaſieſt rule, fordividing
the ſyllables in fpelling, is to divide them
as they are naturally divided in a right pro
nunciation ; without regard to the derivation
of words, or the poffible cambination of con
ſonants at the beginning of arſyllable:
B 4 WORDS
24 INTRODUCTION TO

TO

WORDS.

ORDS are articulate founds, uſed

W by common conſent as ſigns of ideas
or notions.

There are in Engliſh nine Sorts of Words,

or, as they are commonly caļled, Parts of
Speech .
1. The ARTICLE ; prefixed to ſubſtan
tives, when they are common names of
things, to point them out, and to thew how
far their ſignification extends .
2. The SUBSTANTIVE , or Novn ; being
the name of any thing conceived to ſubfift,
or of which we have any notion .
: 3. The PRONOUN ; ſtanding inſtead of
the noun . 2

4. The ADJECTIVE; added to the noun

to expreſs the quality of it. 3

5. The VERB ; or Word , by way of

eminence ; fignifying to be, to do, or to
fuffer .
2 6. The
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6. The ADVERB ; added to verbs, and
alſo to adjectives and other adverbs, to
expreſs ſome circumſtance belonging to
them .
7. The Preposition ; put beforenouns
and pronouns chiefy, to connect them with
other words, and to ſhew their relation to
thoſe words. 73 .

8. The CONJUNCTION ; connecting fen

tences together.
9. The INTERJECTION ; thrown in to
expreſs the affection of the ſpeaker, though
unneceſſary with reſpect to the conſtruction
pf the ſentence.

EXAMPLES,

I 2 7 § 1
The power of ſpeech is a facúlty peculiar
7 8 5 7 7
3
to man , and was beſtowed on him by his
7 8 6
beneficent Creator for the greateſt and moſt
6:46 5 3
excellent uſes ,) but alas ! how often do wę
5 3 7 I 7 2

pervert it to the worſt of purpoſes ?

In
26 INTRODUCTION TO

* In the foregoing ſentence, the Words

the, a, are Articles powery ſpeech, faculty ,
man, creator, uſes, purpoſes, are Subftantives”;
bim , bis, we it, jare Pronouns ; peculiar,
beneficent, gréateft, excellent, zsorſt, are Ad
jectives siisz was, beſtowed ,do; pervert, iarè
Verbs ; i moft, bow , ofteng are Adverbs ; of,
10, on, by, for, are Prepoſitions , and, but, are
Conjunctions; and alas is an Interjection .
The Subſtantives, power, ſpeech, faculty ,
and the reſt, are General, or Common ,
Names of things , whereof there are many
forts belonging to the fame kind , or many
individuals belonging to the fame fort : aś
there are many ſorts of power, many forts of
speech , many ſorts of faculty, many in
dividuals of that fort of animal called man ;
and fo on . Theſe general or common
names are there applied in a more or leſs
extenſive ſigoification ; 1according as ahey
are uſed without either, or with the one, or
with the other of the two Articles a and
the. The words ſpeech ,man , being accom
panied with nor articles are taken in their
largeſt
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largeſt extent ; and fignify all of the kind or

Sort; all forts of ſpeech and all men , The
word faculty, with the article a before it, is
ufed in a moreri confined fignification, for
fome one out of many of abar kind for
it is here implied , that there are other facul
ties peculiar to man beſide ſpeech ." The
words power , creator , uſes; purpoſes, with
the article the before them , (for bis Creator
is the ſame as tbe Creator of bim , ) are uſed
in the moſt confined fignification , for the
things here mentioned and aſcertained : the
power is not any one indeterminate power
out of many ſorts, but that particular fort
of power here ſpecified ; 'namely , the power
of ſpeech : the creator is the One great
Creator of man and of all things : the ufes,
and the purpoſes, are particular uſes and
purpoſes ; the former are explained to be
thoſe in particular, that are the greateft
and moſt excellenc , fuch , for inſtance , as.
the glory of God, and the comdson benefit
of mankind ; the latter to be the worſt ; as
lying, Nanderings blafpheming, and the like.
The
28 INTRODUCTION TO

The Pronouns, him , bis, we, it, ſtand in

ftead of fome of the nouns, or ſubſtantives,
going before them ; as, bim ſupplies the
place of man , bis, of man's; we, of men,
implied in the general name man , in
cluding all men , (of which number is the
ſpeaker ; ) it, of the power, before men
tioned. If, inſtead of theſe pronouns , the
nouns for which they ſtand had been uſed ,
the ſenſe would have been the ſame ; but
the frequent repetition of the ſame words
would have been difagreeable and tedious :
as, The power of ſpeech peculiar to man ,
beſtowed on man , by man's Creator , &c .
The Adjectives peculiar, beneficent, great
eft, excellent, worſt, are added to their ſeveral
ſubſtantives, to denote the character and
quality of each . 1
The Verbs is, was bestowed, do pervert,
ſignify ſeverally, being, ſuffering, and do
ing: By the firſt it is implied , that there
is ſuch a thing as the power of ſpeech , and
it is affirmed to be of ſuch a kind ; namely,
a faculty peculiar to man : by the ſecond it
is
taastatur dairhopend Akk3.
Tere the thicomanietrésident goed
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is faid to have been acted, upon , or to have

fuffered , or to have had fomething done to
it ; namely, to have been beſtowed on
man : by the laſt, we are ſaid to act upon
it, or to do ſomething to it ; pamely, to
pervert it.
The Adverbs, moſt, often , are added to
the adjective excellent, and to the verb per
vert, to ſhew the circumſtance belonging
to them ; namely, that of the higheſt de
gree to the former, and that of frequency
to the latter : concerning the degree of
which frequency alſo a queition is made, by
the adverb bow added to the adverb often.
The Prepoſitions of, to , on, by, for, placed
before the fubftantives and pronouns, ſpeech ,
man, bin , & c . connect them with other
words , ſubſtantives, adjectives, and verbs,
as, power , peculiar, beſtowed , & c . and thew
the relation which they have to thoſe words ;
as the relation of ſubject, object, agent,
end ; for denoting the end , by the agent, on
the object ; to and of denote poffeffion , or
the belonging of one thing to another.
The
30 INTRODUCTION TO

The Conjun & ions and, and but, connect

the three parts of the ſentence together ;
the firſt more lelofely, both with regard to
the ſentence and the ſenſe; the ſecond con :
necting the parts of the ſentence, though
leſs ſtrictly, and at the ſame timeexpreſſing
an oppoſition in the ſenſe . casi

The Interjection alas ! expreſſes the con

cern and regret of the ſpeaker ; and though
thrown in with propriety , yet might have
been omitted , without injuring the con
ſtruction of the ſentence, or deſtroying the
fenfe.

ARTICI. E.

THE Article is a word prefixed to

ſubſtantives, to point them out, and
to ſhew how far their ſignification extends ..
In Engliſh there are but two articles, a,
and 'the : a bécomes an before a vowel, y

and w [ 2 ] excepted , and before a ſilent b

preceding a vowel. : +9019
[ 2 ] The pronunciation of 3 , or cu, as part of a
diphthong at the beginning of a word , requires ſuch an
the original article wawifiom the
Arconan me); $ then is merely cut
it from it in the speed of uberance,
when the nect word begins with a
Londonant.
 Madam , Nu follow you unto the decith .
Shakop: H.John.
Arthritter centodealth "
 ENGLISH GRAMMAR . 31

A is uſed in a vague ſenſe to point lout

one ſingle , thing of the kind , in other re
fpects indeterminate the determines what
particular thing is meaned.bne 90
A ſubſtantive, without any article to limit
is, is taken in its wideſt, ſenſe ; thus man
means all mankind ; as , li ni neitt !:
“The proper Audy of mankind is man ."
1940110 1971) Popc.
Where mankind and man may change places,
without making any alteration in the ſenſe.
Aman means fome one or other of that

kind , indefinitely ; the man means , definites

ly , that particular man , who is ſpoken of :
the former therefore is called the Indefinite,

the latter the Definite, Article [ 3 ] .

effort in the conformation of the parts of the mouth ,

as does not easily admit of the article an before them ,
In other caſes the articles an in a manner coaleices
with the vowel,which it precedes : in this , the effort
of pronunciation ſeparates the article, and prevents the
dlagrecable connecter ce of a fenfible kiatus.
[ 3 ] “ And I perſecuted this way unto the death ."
Acts xxii . 4 : The Apoițle does not mean any particu .
lår fort of death,
poin t death in ger.ern !:"the Definite
but
Example :
32 INTRODUCTION TO

Example : “ Man was made for ſociety ,

and ought to extend his good will to all men :

Article therefore is improperly uſed . It ought to be

unto death, without any Article : agreeably to the
Original, axşı Javale. See alſo 2 Chron. xxxii. 24.
“ When He, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will
guide you into all truth." John xvi . 13. That is,
according to this tranflation , into all Truth whatſoever,
into Truth of all kinds : very different from themean
ing of the Evangeliſt, and from the Original, els wasai
onu candombitav, into all the Truth ; that is; into all'Evangé
lical Truth .
Truly this was the Son of God .” Matt. xxvii . 54.
and Mark xv . 39. This tranflation ſuppoſes, that the
Roman Centurion had a proper and adequate notion
of the character of Jeſus, as the Son of God in a pe
culiar and incommunicable ſente : whereas, it is pro
bable, both from the circumſtances of the Hiſtory,
and from the expreſſion of the Original, ( ulos Oly, a
Son of God , or, of a God, not o viose the Son ,) that he
only meaned to acknowledge him to be an extraor.
dinary perſon, and more than a mere inan ; according
to his own notion of Sons of Gods in the Pagan Theo
logy. This is alſo more agreeable to St. Luke's ac
count of the fame confeſſion of the Centurion ; “ Cer-.
tainly this was diretos, a righteous man;" not iAurasos
the Juſt One . The ſame may be obſerved of
Nebuchadnezzar's words, Dan . iii . 25 . 6. And the
form of the fourth is like the Son of God : " it
”
 ENGLISH GRAMMAR . 33

but a man will naturally entertain a more

particular kindneſs for the men, with whom

ought to be expreffed by the Indefinite Article, liked

Son of God ; špovą iiw 08, as Theodotion very pró
perly renders it : that is , like an Angel ; according to
Nebuchadnezzar's own account of it in the 28th verſe':
“ Bleſſed be God, who hath ſent his Angel, and de
livered his fervants.” See alſo Luke xix. 9 .
“ Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ?" Pope.
It ought to be, the wheel; uſed as an inſtrument for
the particular purpoſe of torturing Criminals : as
Shakeſpear ;
“ Let them pull all about mine ears ; preſent me
Death on the wheel, or at wild horſes heels. " 1
“ God Almighty hath given reaſon toʻa man to be
a light unto him ." Hobbes, Elements of Law, Part I.
Chap. v. 12 . It ſhould rather be, “ to man ," in
general.
Theſe remarks may ſerve to 'ſhew the great importa
ance of the proper ufe of the Article ; the near affinity
which there is between the Greek Article and the Engliſh
Definite Article ; and the excellence of the Engliſh
Language in this refpect, which by means of its two
Articles does moſt preciſely determine the extent of
ſignification of Common Names : whereas the Greek
has only one Article, and it has puzzled all the
Grammarians to reduce the uſe of that to any clear and
certain rules,
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 34 INTRODUCTION TO

he has the moſt frequent intercourſe ; and

enter into a ftill cloſer union with the snan ,

whoſe remper and diſpoſition fuit beſt with

his own." : ,,
” It is of the nature of both the articles to
determine or limit the thing ſpoken of :
determines it to be one fingle thing of the
kind, leaving it ftill uncertain which ; the
determines which it is, or , of many, which
they are. The firſt therefore can only be
joined to Subſtantives in the fingular num
ber [4 ]; the laſt may alſo be joined to
plurals.
There is a remarkable exception to this
rule in the uſe of the Adjectives few and M
many, (the latter chiefly with the word great
before it, ) which, though joined with plural
Subſtantives, yet admit of the ſingular Ar
ticle a : as, a few men , a great many men :

[ 4 ] “ A good character fhould notbe refted in - as

an end, but employed as a means of doing ſtill further
good .” . Atterbury, Serm . II. 3. Ought it not to be
a mean ? I have read an author of this taite, that
compares'a ragged coin to a tartered colours. " Addifon,
Dial, I. on -Medals.

forirami strike wittu ! tai a finiful

odds , Minkof . Mm.Vides TK 3.
 the laid his hands whom a swoic
h
folh . Mach v1.5 .

Ms for the tower , Iwe have it two stories of

18 fut high apices , above the two wings ; & a
goodly leads upon the top , railed ,with statues

interpoted.- Hacon, Skaye, 44,

A Subeme thought of their pom Bennjá heart,

To make a thambles gitte Barlamenthouse .
Shakap : 3 Hen .VI.
So th
t eest African Scipio Shis brother ,
is were impr
as
ed by anymorálefiel Commons Swift ,
Conh. S dife.
Here's all the hohe I've left , one
bare ten shillings,
Benus , & alt her , it

without money ,deti.

When the cloud was a w

би» days upon .

Hi Tabernpole . Tumb 1X . 20.

M.the ilwont peeks n prentmula

titude , & of the chif woon not

afro leta xvii . 4 .
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H. John
- Told of a many thoufand warlike Frenel ?"
A care craz’dınother ofa many children Sons.
w ponio H.Much of Shakeſpear.
The reaſon of it is manifeſt from the effect,
which the article has in theſe phraſes : it
means a ſmall or great number collectively
taken , and therefore gives the idea of a
Włiole , that is, of Unity ( 5 ). Thus like
wiſe a bundred , a thouſand , is one whole
number, an aggregate of many collectively
( 5 ] Thus the word many is taken collectively as a
Subitantive :
“ O Thou fond Many ! with what loud applauſe
Didit thou beat heav'n with bleſſing Bolingbroke,
Before he was what thou would have him be!”
Shakeſpear, 2 Hen. IV .
But it will be
u be hard to reconcile to any Grammatical
propriety the following phraſe : “ Many one there bé,
that fay of my ſoul; There is no help før him in his
God .” Pfal. iii. 2 .
How many a melfage would he fend ! ”
Swift, Verſes on his own Deadı.
He would fend manj a meſſage," is- right: but the
queſtion how ſecmsto deſtroy the unitys or collective
nature, of the Idea ; and therefore it ought to have
been expreſſed, if the meafure would have allowed of
Å, without the article, in the plural number ; " hovu
any melages. "
taken ,
36 INTRODUCTION TO

taken ; and therefore ſtill retains the Article

a, though joined as an Adjective to a plural
Subſtantive ; as, a hundred years [ 6] .
“ For harbour at a thouſand doars they knockd ;
Not one of all the thoujand, but was lock'd !
Dryden,
The Definite Article the is ſometimes

applied to Adverbs in the Comparative and

Superlative degree ; and its effect is to mark
the degree the more ſtrongly , and to define
it the more preciſely : as , “ The more I
examine it, the better I like it. I like this

the leaſt of any." 1

[6] " There were ſlain of them upon a three

thouſand men :" that is, to the number of three thou
fand, 1 Macc . iv. 15. “ About an eight days : " that
is, a ſpace of eight days. Luke ix . 28. But the ex
preſſion is obſolete , or at leaſt vulgar; and, we may
add likewiſe, improper : for neither of theſe numbers
has been reduced by uſe and convenience into one
collective and compact idea, like a hundred, and a
thouſand ; each of which , like a dozen , or a ſcore, we
are accuſtomed equally to conſider on certain occaſions
as a ſimple Unity.

H
1

commmded that they should

heat the furnace one from times
more than it was wont to the heated

Danit IF . 19.
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1
 ENGLISH GRAMMAR. 37

SUBSTANTI V E.

A SUBSTANTIVE , or Noun, is theName

of a thing ; of whatever we conceive
in any way to fubfift, or of which we have
any notion .
Subſtantives are of two forts ; Proper,
and Common , Names . Proper Names are
the Names appropriated to individuals ; as
the names of perſons and places : ſuch are
George, London. Common Names ſtand
for kinds , containing many ſorts ; or for
sforts, containing many individuals under
them ; as, Animal, Man. And theſe Com
mon Names, whether of kinds or forts, are
applied to expreſs individuals, by the help
of Articles added to them , as hath been al
ready ſhewn ; and by the help of Definitive
Pronouns, as we ſhall ſee hereafter.

Proper Names being the Names of indi

viduals, and therefore of things already as
determinate as they can be made, admit not
of Articles, or of Plurality of number; un
Ç 3 leſs
38 INTRODUCTION TO

leſs by a Figure, or by Accident as , when

great Conquerors are called Alexanders ; and
fome great Conqueror An Alexander, or The

Alexander of lis Age : when a Common

Name is underſtood , as TheThames, that
is; the River Thanyes , I'be George, that is;
the Sign of St.George : or when it happens,
that there are many perfons of the fame
aame ; as, The two Scipios.

Whatever is ſpoken of is repreſented as

one, or more, in Number : theſe two manners
of repreſentation in reſpect of number are
called the Singular, and the Plural , Number.
In Englilh , the Subſtantive Singular is
made Plural, for the moſt part, by adding
to it ss or es, where it is neceffary for the
pronunciatioh : as king, kings ; fox, foxes ;
leaf, leaves ; in whieh lalt, and many others,
f is alſo changed into V , for the ſake of an
eaſier pronunciaţion , and more agreeable
found.
Some few . Plurals end in , ens, as, OXEN ,
children , brethrenig and sneh , women , by
changing
1
Chicken

comes thou monarch of thevine,

Pumpy Bacchus, with pink ey'm ;

Ants llest
How sh I your huvloveknow
from another one ?
Byhis cockle hat Ystaft,
and his sandal shoen ? Shaksp. Haml.
 ENGLISH GRAMMAR , 39

changing the 4 of the Singular into,e [7 ].

This form we have retained from the Teu :

tonic ; as likewiſe the introduction of the è

in the former, fyllable of two of the laſt
inſtances ; weomen , ( for fon we pronounce
it, ) brethren , from woman ,brotber [ 8 ]: ſome
thing like which may be noted in ſome other
forms of Plurals : as mouſe, mice ;:louſe,
lice ; tooth, teeth ; foot,feet; gooſe, geeſe (9 )
The words Sheep, deer, are the ſame in
both Numbers . 1
Some Nouns, from the nature of the

1 things which they expreſs , are uſed only in

the Singular, others only in the. Plural,
Form : as , wheat, pitch, gold, Noth, pride,
&c. and bellows, ſciſſars, lungs, bowels, &c .
[ 7 ] And antiently, gyen, fhoen, houfen, hofen : fo
likewiſe antiently
forven, cowen , now always pronounced
and written wine, kine.
[8 ] In the German, the vowels, a , o, u , ofmonoſyl
Jable Nouns are generally in the Plural changed into
diphthongs with an e : as die band , the hand, die hände;
der but, the hat, die büte; der knopff, the button, (or
knob ,) die knöpffe ; & c.
[ 9] 'Theſe are directly from the Saxon : mus, mys ;
Jus, lys ; toth, terk ; for, fet ; gos, ges..)
C4 The
40 INTRODUCTION TO

The Engliſh Language, to expreſs dif

ferent connexions and relations of one thing
to another, uſes, for the moſt part, Prepo ,
fitions. The Greek and Latin among the

antient, and fome too among the modern

languages, as the German , vary the ter
mination or ending of the Subſtantive, to
anſwer the ſame purpoſe. Theſe differenç
endings are in thoſe languages called Caſes.
And the Engliſh being derived from the
fame origin as the German , that is , from
the Teutonic [ 1 ] , is not wholly without
them . For inſtance, the relation of Pof
fefſion, or Belonging, is often expreſſed by

" [ 1] "" Lingua Anglorum hodierna avitze Saxonica

forman in pleriſque orationis partibus etiamnum re
tinet . Nam quoad particulas caſuales, quorundama
caluum terminationes, conjugationes verborum ; ver
bum fubftantivum , formam patlivæ vocis, pronoinina,
participia, conjunctiones, et præpofitiones omnes ;
denique; quoau idiomata, phraliumque maximam
partem, etiam nunc Saxonicus est Angiorum ferivo."
Hickes , Thelur. Ling. Septent . Præf. p . vi . To
which may be added the Degrees ofcompariſon, the."
form of which is the very fame in the Engiith as in
the Saxon.
:
fades ?

121 s . Abiam kai tame is changed in

- - - -
der name is changes , Yohe He-pe
-d
.
Gin .l'hap . XVII Sejle .
 ENGLISH GRAMMAR. 41

a Caſe, or a different ending of the Subftan

Live . This Cafe anſwers to the Genitive

Cafe in Latin , and may ſtill be ſo called ;

though perhaps more properly the Pof
feſſive Cafe. Thus, “ God's grace : ” which
may alſo be expresied by the Prepoſition ;
as, “ the grace of God.” It was formerly
written , “ Godis grace ;" we now always
ſhorten it with an Apoſtrophe; often very
improperly , when we are obliged to pro
nounce it fully ; as, “ Thomas's book : ”
that is , '“ Thomasis book ,” not “ Thomas
bis book , " as it is commonly ſuppoſed [ 2 ] .

[ 2 ] " Chriſt his fake,” in our Liturgy , is a miſtake,

either of the Printers, or of the Compilers. “ Never
theleſs, Afa his heart was perfect with the Lord . "
1 Kings xv, 14. " To ſee whether Mordecai bis mat
ters would ſtand.” Eſther iii . 4."
“ Where is this mankind now ? who lives to age
Fit to be made Methuſalem his page ?” Donné.
By young Telemachus kis blooming years.”
Pope's Odyſley.
“ My Paper is the Ulves bis bow , in which every man
of wit or learning may, try his firength .” Addiſon,
Guardian No. 98 , See alſo Spect. No. 207. This
is no flip of Mr. Addiſon's pen : he gives us his opinion
When
 INTRODUCTION TO

When the thing , to which another is ſaid

to belong, is expreffed by a circumlocution ,
or by many terms, che ſign of the Poffefſive

Cafe is commonly added to the laſt term ;

as, " The King of England's Soldiers. ”
When it is a Noun ending in s, the figni of
the Poffeffiye Cafe is fometimes not added ;

as, “ for righteouſneſs” fake [ 3 ] ;" nor ever

to the Plural Number ending in s ; as, " on

upon this point very explicitly in another place. “ The

fame, single letter (* ) on many occafions does the office
of a whole word, and repreſents the his and her of
our forefathers." Addiſon , Spect. No. 135. The
latter inſtance might have fhewn him, how groundleſs
this notion is : for it is not eaſy to conceive, how the
letters added to a Feminine Noun ſhould repreſent the
word ber; any more than it ſhould the word their, ad
ded to a PluralNoun ; as ,“ the children's bread.” But
the direct derivation of this Caſe from the Saxon Geni.
tive Cafe is ſufficient of itſelf to decide this matter.
[ a ] In Poetry , the Sign of the Pofieflive Cafe is fre:
quently omitted after Proper Names ending in sy or
* : as, “ The wrath of Peleu Son ." . This ſeems
not fo allowable in Proſes as, Mofes’ minifter. "
Jofl . i. 1 . « Phinehas' wife . ”nr Sam . iv. 19 .
s6 Feitus cande into Eelix ' rooin ." Acts xxiv . 27

tapleto
 Pharash putine in ward withe Cattain of
the Guard's house . Genesis XLI.10 .
F

1
 ENGLISH GRAMMAR. 43

eagles' wings [41.Pri Bothe the Sign and the

Prepoſition ſeem fometimes to be uſed
as, 6 a ſoldier of the king'scala opt here are
seally cwo Poffeffives 5 for io means , " one
of the foldiers of the king.16 gai ) ?
1. The Engliſh in its Subſtantives has but
two differeno terminations for Cafes , that
of the Nominative, which fimply expreſies
the Name of the thing , and that of the Pof
feffive Caſe.

Things are frequently conſidered with

relation to the diſtinction of Sex or Gen

der ; as being Male, or Female, or Neither

the one , nor the other. Hence Subſtantives
are of the Maſculine, or Feminine, or Neu
ter, ( that is , Neither, ) Gender : which lat
- [ 4 ] “ It is very probable, that this Convocation
was called, to clear fome doubt, that King Janies
might have bad , about the lawfulneſs of the Hol
landers their throwing off the Monarchy of Spain,
and their withdrawing for good and all their aticgiance
to that Crown ” Welwood's Memoirs, p.31. 6th Edit.
In this Sentence the Pronominal Adjective ibeir is twice
improperly added ; the Poffelhive Gafe being fuffici
ently exprelied withou it.
ter
 1
44 INTRODUCTION TO

ter is only the excluſion of all conſideration

of Gender.

The Engliſh Language, with ſingular

propriety , following nature alone, applies
the diſtinction of Maſculine and Feminine
1
only to the names of Animals ; all the
1
reſt are Neuter : except when , by a Poetie
tal or Rhetorical fiction , things Inanimate
and Qualities are exhibited as Perſons, and
conſequently become either Male or Fe
male . And this gives the Engliſh an ad 1
vantage above moſt other languages in the }
Poetical and Rhetorical ſtyle : for when
Nouns naturally Neuter are converted into
Maſculine and Feminine [ 5 ] , ' the Perſonifi

[ 5 ]'" At his command the uprooted Hills retird

Each to his place : they heard his voice, and went
Obfequious ' : Heaven bis wonted face renew'd ,
And with freſh flowrets Hill and Valley ſmild...
Milton, P. L. B. vi.
" Was I deceiv'd ; or did a ſable Cloud
Turn forth ber ſilver lining on the Night ?"
Milton, Comus.
“ Of Law no leſs can be acknowledged, than that
ber ſeat is the bofom of God ; ber voice, the harmony
of the world. All tKings in heaven and earth do her
sation
--
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 ENGLISH GRAMMAR . $45
cation is more diſtinctly and forcibly mark
ed .

Some few Subſtantives are diſtinguiſhed

in their Gender by their terminations : as,
pi
y
homage : the very leaſt , as feeling her care ; and the
greateſt, as not exempted from her power.” Hooker,
B. i. 16 . “ Go to your Natural Religion : lay be
fore her Mahomet and his difciples, arrayed in armour
and in blood :-hew ber the cities, which he ſet in
flames ; the countries, which he ravaged :-when the
has viewed him in this ſcene, carry her into his re
tirements ; fhew her the Prophet's chamber, his con
cubines and his wives :-when he is tired with this
proſpect, then ſhew her the Bleſſed Jeſus .” See, the
whole paſſage in the concluſion of Bp. Sherlock's 9th
Sermon , vol. i.
Of theſe beautiful paſſages we may obferve, that as,
in the Engliſh, if you put it and its inſtead of bis, fise,
her, you confound and deſtroy the images, and reduce,
what was before highly Poetical and Rhetorical, to
mere profę and common diſcourſe ; ſo if you render
them into another language, Greek, Latin, French,
Italian , or German ; in which Hill , Heaven, Cloud,
Law , Religion , are conſtantly Maſculine, or Femi
nine, or Neuter, reſpectively , you make the images
obſcure and doubtful, and in proportion diminiſh their
beauty ,
This excellent remark is Mr. Harris's, HERMES,
p. 58.
prince
 UCTION
46 INTROD TO

princé, princeſs ; kestor , afireſs ; tion; lioneſs ;

bero, heroine; & C ? 74
The chief uſe of Gender in Engliſh is in
the Pronoun of the Third Perſon ; which
muſt agree in that refpect with the Noun
it ftands. : ' 30 a
for which
2:07911
29c +
PRONOUN.

PRONOUN is word ſtanding inſtead

a Noun, as its Subſtitute or Repreſen
tative,
In the Pronoun are to be conſidered the
Perſon , Number, Gender, and Caſe.
There are Three Perſons which may be

the Subject of any diſcourſe : firſt, the Per

ſon who ſpeaks may ſpeak of himſelf ; fe
'condly , he may ſpeak of the Perſon to whom
he addreſſes himſelf ; thirdly, he may ſpeak
of ſome other Perſon .
Theſe are called , reſpectively , the Firſt,
Second, and Third , Perſons : and are ex
preſſed by the Pronouns , I, Thou, He.
As
3
 Women may be prenues, actors,and
heroes as well as Min . " When was
there wer a better Prince on the throne
than the present Queen ? - swift - frey
for aduéfulig.
Hinwinuer long omce
Anca heir
murerat bymanaging hy
called Madam Nolasa
ante . alt
Llarse . Hletih

- Spanish Cur . At 1. S. l.
all that are
If prudence work , who of a
ié more cunning workmin then oke ?
trimon 1111.6

Hath diang sou ,myhad !

Ao child but thero i te's hi only hir.
tetek , Machado at Norte Ill.
 ENGLISH GRAMMAR . 47

As the Speakers, the Perfons ſpoken to ,

and the other Perſons ſpoken of, may be
many ; fo each of theſe Perſons hath the
Plural Number ; We, re, They.lt
The Perſons ſpeaking and ſpoken to ,
being at the ſame time the Subjects of the
diſcourſe, are ſuppoſed to be preſent ; from
which and other circumſtances their Sex

is commonly known, and needs not to be

marked by a diſtinction of Gender in their
Pronouns : but the third Perſon or thing
ſpoken of being abſent and in many reſpects
1
unknown , it is neceſſary , that it ſhould be
marked by a diſtinction of Gender ; at leaſt
when fome particular Perſon or thing is
fpoken of, which ought to be more diſtinct
ly marked': accordingly the Pronoun Sin
gular of the Third Perſon hath the Three
Genders ; He, She, It.
Pronouns have Three Cafes ; the Nomi
native ; the Genitive, or Poffeffive ; like
Nouns; and moreover a Caſe, which fol
lows the Verb Active, or the Prepoſition ,
expreſſing the object of an Action, or of a
Relation.
48 INTRODUCTION TO

Relation . It anſwers to the Oblique Caſes in

Latin ; and may be properly enough called
the Objective Cafe .

PRONOUNS ;

according to their Perſons, Numbers, Caſes,

and Genders .

PERSON S.

I. 2. 3 34
Plural .
Singular.
1, Thou , He ; We, Ye or You, They .

CA SE S.

Nom . Poft. Obj. Nom. Pofl. Obj.

Firſt Perſon .
I, Mine, Me ; We, Ours, Us.
Second Perſon .

Thou ,. Thine, Thee; Yeor You, Yours, You [ 6 ).

[ 6] Some Writers have uſed ve as the Objective

Caſe Plural of the Pronoun of the Second Perfon ;
very improperly, and ungrammatically.
• The more ſhame for ye: holy men I thought ye.”
Shakeſpear, Hen . VIH .
Third
 n. Muun

Nom .c . I. we .
la
minie Burd.
ym
Acc . c . nu . un

Nom .c._ thou .

ye .
ars
Gen. c.- thine ye .
Acc . en thee .
you .

.
 Singular hapibur
Mase, Tem . Het
heu t.
Nom . e. hase. I
she . it

his hers . i
Fotosh
Aec. c. - o
hiomt. her . it

Thral humber .

All genders.
hom . c . -
they
Hurd.
Gen.
Acc. c.
a. - them .

that usky first the kinglons floods&

his righteousness
Any of the saine company ( Ke 4e) mmay
praction francise the said science of
Thysic in all & wary his munhero es
pasti . Ant . 32 Hen . r . o.HO.
 ENGLISH GRAMMAR .

Third Perſon .
Maf. He, His, Him ;
Fem . She, Hers , Her ; They , Theirs , Thiem ,
Neut. It, Its [ 7 ], It ; }

“ But tyrants dread ye, leſt your juft decree

Transfer the pow'r, and ſet the people free."
Priora
“ His wrath , which one day will deitroy ye both ."
Milton , P. L. ii. 734. ,
Miiton uſes the ſame manner of expreſſion in a few
other places of his Paradiſe Loſt, and more frequently
in his Poems . It may perhaps be allowed in the
Comic and Burleſque ítyle, which often imitates a
vulgar and 'incorrect pronunciation : as, “ By the
Lord, I knew ye, as well as he that made je.'' Shake
ſpear, i Henry IV. But in the ſerious and folemn
ſtyle, no authority is ſufficient to juſtify ſo manifest a
foleciſma
The Singular and Plural Forms ſeem to be con
founded in the following Sentence : “ Paſs ye away ,
thou inhabitant of Saphir.” Micah i. ile
[7 ] The Neuter Pronoun of the Third Perſon had
formerly no variation of Cafes. Inſtead of the Pof
feffive its they uſed bis, which is now appropriated to
the Maſculine. “ Learning hath his infancy, when
it is but beginning, and almoſt childith ; then his a
youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile ; then bis
itrength of years, when it is folid and reduced ; and
laitly his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhauft."
Bacon , Eflay 58. In this example his is evidently uſed
D The
 TION
go INTRODUC TO

The Perſonal Pronouns have the nature

of Subſtantives, and , as ſuch, ſtand by them
felves : the reft have the nature of Adjec
tives, and , as ſuch , are joined to Subſtan
tives ; and may be called Pronominal Ad
jectives. * 31914
Tby, My, Her, Orr , Tour, Tbeir, are Pro .
nominalAdjectives : but His, ( thatis, He's, )
Her's, Oer's, Your's, Their's , have evidently
the Form of the Poffellive Cafe: and by
Analogy, Mine, Thine [ 8 ]; may be eſteemed
:
as the Poffeflive Caſe of it: but what ſhall we ſay to
the following, where ber is applied in the fame man
het , and feemsto makea strange confufion of Gender
" He that pricketh the heart anaketh it to thew, ker
knowledge." Ecclus xxii. 19 .
« Oft have I ſeen a timely -parted ghoff, 21.10

* Of athy Fomblanee, meagre ,pale,and bloodieſs,

Being all defcended to the lab'ring heart,
Who in the conflict that it holds with death , UP
** Attracts the fame for aidance gainſt the enemy 200
- Svits 9.0x21:' Shakeſpear, z Hen . VI.
k ought to begrze:0.2154 21 :) amor
ist Which , in the conflict that t holds ". Osil 98
Or, perhapsmote poetically, " so 10
" Whes in the conflict that be holds with death . "
[ 8 ] So the Saxon Ic bath the Pofleflive Cafe Mins
of
And inthe vine were three branches : & it was

though it buddes ,& her blossoms that forth .

Inesis XL.10 .
She heart humith his arn biarmh .
Prove Xiv.10 .

They setit in his place . Isam.VI.17.

the earth bringett fast har hand .

- Isai . Ixv . 11.
I
 ENGLISH GRAMMAR .
5*
of the ſame rank . All theſe are uſed , when
the Noun , to which they belong, is under:
ſtood a the two latter ſometimes alſo inſtead
of my, thy, when the Noun following them
begins with a yowels ', 9d yom bas
Beſide the foregoing, there are feve.
ral other Pronominal Adjectives a which,
though they may ſometimes,ſeem to fland
by themſelves, yet have always fome Sub
Gantive belonging to them , either referred
to, or underſtood : as, This, that, other,any,
fome, one, none . Theſe are called Defini
tive, becauſe they define and limit the ex :
tent of the Common Namen or General
Term , to which they either refér, órare
joined. The three firſt of theſe are ya
ried , to expreſs Number ; -28, Tbeles shofe ,
DA319b Tis 27 I
Thu , Poffeffive Thin He, Poffeffive Hiss from which
our Poffeffive Caſes of the fame Pronouns aretaken
without Alteration , To the Saxon Poffefſive Caſes,
bire, ure, coruer , hina, (that is, ber's, our's, gogue's their's )
we have addedthef ,the Charadterific of thePoflerlive
Caſe of Nouns. Or our's, your's, are directly from the
Saxon ures, eosverss thé Poffeffive Cafe of the Prono
minal Adjectives art, eotver ; that is our;jour...
D 2 Athens
 INTRODUCTION TO

others [ 9 ] ; the laſt of which admits of the

Plural form only when its Subſtantive is
not joined to it, but referred to, or under
ftood : none of them are varied to expreſs
the Gender ; only two of them to expreſs
the Cafe ; as, other , one, which have the
Poffeflive Cafe . One is ſometimes uſed in

an Indefinite fenſe , ( anſwering to the French

on, ) as in the following phraſes ; “ one
is apt to think ; " “ one ſees ; ” “ one ſup
poſes." . W ko, which, that, are called Re
latives, becauſe they more directly refer
to ſome Subſtantive going before ; which
therefore is called the Antecedent. They
alſo connect the following part of the
Sentence with the foregoing. Theſe be
long to all the three Perſons ; whereas
the reſt belong only to the Third . One of
ther only is varied to expreſs the three

[ 9] "Diadorous , whoſe defign was to refer all oc

currences to years, -- is of more credit in a point of
Chronology; than Plutarch or any other , that crite
Lives by the lump. ” Bentley, Differt. on Themiſto
cles's Epittles, Sect. vi , It ovght to be o :bers, or
coriteso
tales ;
1

4
1
1

1
 ding Slur

1.8 % Neutig
Nom.c. who. which

c. whose whose .
yen .
Acc . c.- whom which
 ENGLISH GRAMMAR . : 53.

Caſes ; Who, whoſe [ 1 ], ( that is, who's [ 2 ] , )

whom : none of them have different endings
for the Numbers. Who, which, what, are
called Interrogatives, when they are uſed in
afking queſtions. The two latter of them
have no variation of Number or Cafe.

Each , every [ 3 ], either , are called Diſtri

[ 1 ] Whoje is by fome authors made the Poffefſive
Cafe of which, and applied to things as well as perions :
I think, improperly .
“ The queſtion, whoſe folution I require,
Is, what the ſex of women moſt deſire.” Dryden.
« Is there any other doctrine, whoſe followers are pu
í niſhed :" Addiſon.
The higher Poetry, which loves to conſider every
thing as bearing a Perſonal Character, frequently ap
plies the perſonal Poffeffive whoſe to inanimate beings:
“ Of man's firſt diſobedience, and the fruit
Of that forbidden Tree, whoſe imortal , tafte 1
Brought death into the world, and all our woe , "
Milton .
[ 2 ] So the Saxon bra hath the PofTefſive Caſe bwas.
Note, that the Saxons rightly placed the Aſpirate be
fore the w : as we now pronounce it. This will be
evident to any one that ſhall conſider in whạt manner
he pronounces the words what, when ; that is, boo -at,
hoo-èn.
[ 3 ] Every was formerly much uſed as a Pronominal
D3 butives
 54 INTR TO
ODUC
TION
butives , becauſe they denote the perſons
at make up a number, as taken
that
or things, th
Ay and
ſeparately
Own, and ſelf, in the Plural selves, are
joined to the poffeffives, ny, our, tby, your,
bis [4 ], ber, their ; as,'my own hand ; my
Self, yourſelves : both of them expreffing
emphaſis , or oppoſition ; as, “ I did it my
own ſelf," that is, and no one elſe : the lat
ter alſo forming the Reciprocal Pronoun ;
as, “ he hurt himſelf.” Himſelf, themſelves,
ſeem to be uſed in the Nominative Caſe by

Adjective, ſtanding by itſelf: as, “ He propoſeth unto

God their neceflities, and they their own requeſts, for
: relief in every of them ." Hooker, v . 39. • The
corruptions and depredations to which every of theſe
was ſubject." Swift, Conteſts and Diffentions. We
now commonly fay , every one... !
[ 4] The Poffe lives bis, mine, thine, may be accounted
either Pronominal Adjectives, or Genitive, Caſes of
the reſpective Pronouns. The forın is ambiguous ;
juit in the ſame manner as , in the Latin phraſe cujus
Jiber ," the word cujus may be either the Genitive Cafe
of qui, or the Nominative Maſculine of the Adjective
cujus, cuja, cujum . So likewiſe 'quei, tui, ſui, noftri,
veftri, have the ſame form , whether Pronouns, or Pro
nominal Adjectives.
corruption

!
1

!
Had hedone se,himself had bome the crown ,

Whichwaste of idle hours hath quite thrown on

Shaksp. Rich.h. [down .

With them,my lord,mypreff hawe naught to do,

fin tomyself bewaila good flasta's case

Mith sad unhelpful tears ; -
Shakshi 2 SterVI,

sitting, thiyulfart coming

Touch thür effect
2
Ho la kuborded the duhet achatishthou
do drughts Tohinder. -Antina ,

[:]The lower caſe of propié Mill call these

words his self . Šther delves.
[6 ] I will nottouch thindeyes
forall the measure that thene anote pares :

Shaksh : K. John .
cie.pofteftes; nobåswesho now undea ,
Hand it, the heamur in which he is in
debted . It might beread ouons.
 ENGLISH - GRAMMAR . 55

corruption inſtead of his felf , theirſelves [ 5 ]:

- , as, “ he came bimfelf ;" they did it them
felves ;” where himſelf, themſelves, cannot
be in the Objective Caſe. If this be fo ,
Self muſt be, in theſe
noun , but a Noun.Thus Dryden uſes it :
“ What I ſhow ,
Thy ſelf may freely on thyſelf beſtow ."

Ourſelf, the Plural Pronominal Adjective

with the Singular Subſtantive, is peculiar
to the Regal . Style. Iss
Own is an Adjective ; or perhaps the
Participle ( aven ) of the verb to owe ; to
be the right owner of a thing ( 6 ]..
All Nouns whatever in Grammatical
Conſtruction are of the Third Perſon ; ex
cept when an addreſs is made to a Perſon :

then the Noun , ( anſwering to what is called

[ 5 ] His jelf and their felves were formerly in uſe,

even in the Objective Caſe after a Prepoſition: “ Every
of us, each for his felf, laboured how to recover him , "
Sidney. " That they would willingly and of their
feives endeavour to keep a perpetual chaſtity." Stat,
2 and 3 Ed. VI. ch . 277
16 ] " The Man that breth this girdle ." Acts xxi . 11 .
O totiviLórn avrn -who girdle this is the
It is now printed owneth ,
 56 INTRODUCTION TO

the Vocative Caſe in Latin ,) is of the Second

Perſon .

ADJECT I V E.

AN ADJECTIVE is a word added to a

Subſtantive to expreſs its quality [ 7 ].
In Engliſh the Adjective is not varied on
account of Gender, Number, or Cafe [ 8 ].
[ 7 ] Adjectives are very improperly called Nouns ;
for they are not the Names of things. The Adjectives
good, white, are applied to the Nouns man, Jnotu, to ex
preſs the Qualities belonging to thoſe Subjects ; but
{ the Names of those Qualities in the Abſtract, ( that
is, conſidered in themſelves, and without being attri
buted to any Subject ,) are goodneſs, zubiteneſs ; and theſe
are Nouns, or Subſtantives.
[8 ] Some few Pronominal Adjectives muſt here be
excepted, as having the Poffefſive Caſe ; aś oře, other,
another : “ By, one's own choice.” Sidney.
“ Teach me to feel another's woe. ”
Pope, Univ . Prayer .
And the Adjectives former, and latter, may be con
fidered as Pronominal, and repreſenting the Nouns, to
which they refer ; if the phraſe in the following ſen
tence be allowed to be juſt : “ It was happy for the
state, that Fabius continued in the command with
Minucius : the former's phlegm was a check upon the
laiter's vivacity . "
 1

+ . Another is as much two wordt u the

other , fit oughtalwayoti wuttenas two

words, an other .

1
6
be

1
 ENGLISH GRAMMAR. 57

The only variation , which it admits of, is

that of the Degrees of Compariſon .
Qualities for the moſt part admit of more
and leſs, or of different degrees : and the
words that expreſs ſuch Qualities have ac
cordingly proper forms to expreſs different
degrees. When a Quality ' is ſimply ex
preſſed without any relation to the ſame in
a different degree, it is called the Poſitive ;
as , wiſe, great. When it is expreſſed with
1 augmentation , or with reference to a leſs
degree of the ſame, it is called the Com
parative ; as, wiſer, greater. When it is
expreſſed as being in the higheſt degree of
all, it is called the Superlative ; as, wiſest,
greateſt.
So that the fimple word , or Poſitive, be
comes Comparative by adding ror er ; and

Superlative by adding ſt, or ejt, to the end

of it. And the Adverbs more or moſt placed

before the Adjective have the ſame effect ;

as, wiſe, more wiſe, moſt wiſe [9].

(9 ] Double Comparatives and Superlatives are im

proper :
Monofyt
58 INTRODUCTION TO

Monoſyllables, for the inoſt part, are

compared by er and eft ; and Diffyllables
by more and moſt.: as, mild , milder, mildeſt ;
- The Duke of Milan,
And his more braver Daughter could controut thee."
Shakeſpear, Teinpet .
moſtſtraiteft fect ofour religion I have lived
“ After the
Phariſee.” Acts xxvi. 5. So likewife Adjectives,
that have in themſelves a Superlative ſignification ,
admit not properly the Superlative form fuperadded :
“ Whoſoever of you will be "chiefeft, fhall be fervant
of all.” Mark X. 44. « One of the firſt and chiefest
inſtances of prudence.” Atterbury, Serm . IV . 10.
“ While the extremeft parts of the earth were me
ditating a ſubmiffion ." Ibid . I. 4.
“ But firit and chiefeft with thee bring
Hiin , that yon foars on golden wing,
Guiding the fiery -wheeled throne,
The Cherub Contemplation ."
Milton, Il Penferoſo .
" That on the ſea's cxtremeft border Stood."
Addiſon's Travels.
But poetry is in poſſeſſion of theſe two improper Su
perlatives, and may be indulged in the uſe of thein.
The Double Superlative moſt big hift is a Phraſe pe
culiar to the Old Vulgar Tranſlation of the Pſalms ;
where it acquires a ſingular propriety froin the Sub
ject to which it is applied, the Supreme Being, who is
higher thanthe higheA.
frugata
hew do consider this thing ; but more
fwo do perform it . Homily on Mahimong

tampißesátny

* πρώτος..

This precious Mone setinte silver sea ,

Which senesit in the office fawall,
leasa moatdefensive to a house ,
Against the invy of bf happiivlands;
Shakup : Rich . 2 .
 No difayllables , however they may
ind; shd be compared.by a xesti
Words,which , like able Sample make

the compan & superh. degrees intwo

Jyllabled, may perhapis becaupload ,

What
w vile
ho ca thing upon the eart thanfriends
n
bring noblest mindstobanwends,
Shakap. Simon .

whore cars are opensz

vulgar ,
to rhetoric than lagic - Sir Brown ,
Rel, Med , IV
What cutainer nuthur Inna mm
tata Clarke, Jum , 111,0, p.1th
The wiittom oful thi le arnórluat Bau
the most ubuntur Philophu ,
Umbe, Jurm . Volig . 6.2

[ 1] do beyond all measure

That were mydalefarworser than itis,
Iwd not wid her for a mine gigold .
Shakop : Jam.of the Arcas

Shakspeare uden lefser very often

The worser sort of man - Ir.Jag love

A. , Ch.z.dutor
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ENGLISH GRAMMAR . 59

frugal, more frugal, moſt frugal. + Diffylla

bles ending in y, as happy, lovely ; and in
le after a mute, as able, ample ; or accented

on the laſt fyllable, as diſcrete, polite ; eaſily

admit of er and eft. Words of more than
two ſyllables hardly ever admit of thoſe
terminations.
In ſome few words the Superlative is
formed by adding the Adverb moſt to the
end of them : as , nethermoſt, uttermoſt, or
utmoſt, undermost, uppermoft, foremoſt.
In Engliſh, as in moſt languages, there
are ſome words of very common uſe, ( in
which the caprice of Cuſtom is'apt to get
the better of Analogy ,) that are irregular in
this reſpect : as good, better, beft; bad ,
worſe, worſt ; little, leſs [ 1 ], leaft ; much, or
[ 1] “ Leller, ſays Mr. Johnſon ," is a barbarous cor
ruption of leſs, formed by the vulgar from the habit of
terminating Compariſons in er . ”
- Attend to wh a lejjer Muſe indites.” Addiſon .
“ The tongue is like a race -horle ; which runsthe
faſter, the leſſer weight it carries." Addiſon , Spect.
N ° 247
Worſer founds much more barbarous, only becauſe
it has not been ſo frequently uſed .
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many, more, moſt ; and a few others. And

in other languages, the words irregular in

this reſpect , are thoſe , which expreſs the
very ſame ideas with the foregoing.

VERB .

A VERB is a word which ſignifies to be,

to do, or to ſuffer,
There are three kinds of Verbs ; Active,
Paſſive, and Neuter Verbs .

A Verb Aêive expreſſes an Action , and

neceſſarily implies an Agent, and an Ob
ject acted " upon : as , to love ; “ I love
Thomas , "

A Verb Paſſive expreſſes a Paſſion, or a

Suffering, or the Receiving of an Action ;
Changed to a worfer ſhape thou canſt not be ."
Shakeſpear, 1 Hen . VI.
“ A dreadful quiet felt, and worfer far
Than arms, a fullen interval of war, " Dryden .
The Superlative leaſt ought rather to be written with.
out the a, being contracted from lefjeſt ; as Dr. Wallis
hath long ago obſerved. The Conjunction, of the
. fame found, might be written with the a , for dir
tinction .
and
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and ' neceſſarily implies an Object acted

upon , and an Agent by which it is acted
upon ; as , to be loved ; “ Thomas is loved
by me."
So when the Agent takes the lead in the
Sentence, the Verb is Active, and is føl
lowed by the Object : when the Object
takes the lead , the Verb is Paſſive , and is
followed by the Agent.
i
A Verb Neuter expreſſes Being ; or a
!
itate or condition of being ; when the Agent
and the Object acted upon coincide, and
the event is properly Neither action nor
paſſion , but rather fomething between both :
as , I am, I peep , I walk .
The Verb Active is called alſo Tranſi
tive ; becauſe the action paſſeth over to the
Object, or hath an effect upon ſome other
thing : and the Verb Neuter is called In
tranſitive ; becauſe the effect is confined
within the Agent , and doth not paſs over
to any object [ 2 ]
[ 2 ] The diſtinction between Verbs abfolutely Neu
ter, as to sleep, and Verbs Active Intranſitive, as to
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In Engliſh many Verbs are ufed both in

an Active and Neuter fignification , the con
ſtruction only determining of which kind
they are .
To the ſignification of the Verb is fuper
added the deſignation of Perſon , by which
it correſponds with the leveral Perfonal
Pronouns ; of Number, by which it cor
reſponds with the Number of the Noun,
Singular or Plural , of Time, by which it
repreſents the being, action , or pallion , as
Preſent, Paft, or Future ; whether Imper
feétly, or Perfectly ; that is , whether palling
in ſuch time, or then finiſhed , and laſtly
of Mode, or of the various Manner in which
the being, action , or paffion, is expreſfed .
cualk, though founded in nature and truth , is of little
uſe in Grammar, Indeed it would rather perplexx
than aſſiſt the learner : for the difference between
Verbs Active and Neuter, as Tranſitive and Intranfier
tive, is eaſy and obvious: but the difference between "
Verbs abfolurely Neater and Intranfitively Active is
not always clear. But however thefe latter may differ
in nature , the Conſtruction of them both is the fame : :
and Grammar is not ſo much concerned wirh their
real, as with their Grammatical, properties.
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In a Verb therefore are to be conſidered
the Perfon , the Number, the Time, and the
Mode.
The Verb in ſome parts of it varies its
endings, to expreſs, or agree with , different
Perſons of the ſame number : as, “ I love,
Thou loveft, He loveth , or loves . "
So alſo to expreſs different Numbers of
the ſame perſon ; as, “ Thou loveft, Ye
lave ; He loveth, They love [3 ].”
So likewiſe to expreſs different Times,
in which any thing is repreſented as being ,
acting, or acted upon : as,." I love, I loved ;
I bear, I bore, I have borne . ”

( 3] In the Plural Number ofthe Verb, there is no

variation of ending to expreſs the different Perſons ;
and the three Perſons Plural are the fame allo with the
firſt Perſon Singular : moreover in the Preſent Time
of the Subjunctive Mode all Perſonal Variation is
wholly dropped . Yet is this fcanty provifion of terá
minations fufficient for all the purpoſes of diſcourſe,
nor does any ambiguity ariſe from it : the Verb being
always attended either with the Noun expreffing the
Subject acting or acted upon , or the Pronouo repre
ſenting it. For which reaſon the Plural Termination
in ex , they loven, tbey weren , forinerly in uſe , was laid
afide as unneceſſary, and hath long been obſolete.
Y 3 The
64 INTRODUCTION TO

: .The Mode is the Manner of repreſenting

the Being, Action , or Paſſion . When it is
fimply declared, or a queſtion is aſked, in
order to obtain a declaration concerning it,
it is called the Indicative Mode ; as, “ I
love , loveft thou ? " when it is bidden, it is
called the Imperative ; as, “ love thou : "
when it is ſubjoined as the end or deſign, or
mentioned under a condition , a ſuppoſition ,
or the like, for the most part depending on
ſome other Verb , and having a Conjunction
before it, it is called the Subjunctive ; as,
“ If I love ; if thou love : " when it is bare

ly expreſſed without any limitation of perſon

or number, it is called the Infinitive ; as ,
" to love ;" and when it is expreſſed in a :
form in which it may be joined to a Noun
as its quality or accident, partaking thereby
of the nature of an Adjective, it is called the
Participle ; as, “ loving [ 4 ]." .

[4 A Mode is a particular form of the Verb, de

noting the nianner in which a thing is, does, or ſuf
fers : or expreſſing an intenſion of mind concerning
ſuch being, doing, or ſuffering. As far as Grammar
Buc
La Inglich teu dülmekon betw. the Moodo
Fr R. G anthem ,
very slight .
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But to expreſs the Time of the Verb the

Engliſh uſes alſo the aſſiſtance of other Verbs,
is concerned, there are no more Modes in any lan
guage, than there are Forms of the Verb appropriated
to the denoting of ſuch different manners of repre
ſentation . For inſtance ; the Greeks have a peculiar
form of the Verb, by which they expreſs the ſubject,
or matter, of a Wil ; which properly conſtitutes an
Optative Mode : but the Latins have no ſuch form ;
the ſubject of a Wiſh in their language is fubjoined to
the Wish itſelf either expreſſed or implied, as fubfe
quent to it and depending on it ; they have therefore
no Optative Mode ; but what is expreffed in that
Mode in Greek falls properly under the Subjunctive
Mode in Latin. For the ſame reaſon , in Engliſh the
ſeveral expreſſions of Conditional Will, Poſſibility,
Liberty, Obligation, & c. come all under the Sub
junctive Mode. The mere expreſſions of Will, Pofli
bility, Liberty, Obligation , &c. belong to the Indi
cative Mode : it is their Conditionality, their being
fubfequent, and depending upon fomething preced
ding, that determines them to the Subjunctive Mode.
And in this Grammatical Modal Form , however they
may differ in other reſpects Logically, or Metaphyſi
cally, they all agree. That Will , Poſſibility, Liberty ,
Obligation, & c. though expreſſed by the ſame Verbs
that are occaſionally uſed as Subjunctive Auxiliaries,
may belong to the Indicative Mode, will be apparent
from a few examples.
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66 INTRODUCTION TO
called therefore Auxiliaries , or Helpers ; do ,
be, bave, ſhall, will : as , “ I do love, I did
56 Herewe may reign ſecure. "
65 Or of th ' Eternal co - eternal beam
May I expreſs thee unblam'd ? ”
“ Firm they might have ſtood ,
Yet fell.” Milton
“ What we would do,
We ſhould do, when we would . "
Shakeſpear, Hamlet
“ Is this the nature ,
Which paflion could not ſhake ? whoſe folid virtue
The ſhot of accident, or dart of chance,
Could neither raze, nor pierce ? " Id . Othello .
Theſe fentences are all either declarative, or fimply
interrogative ; and however expreffive of Will, Li
berty, Poſſibility, or Obligation, yet the Verbs are all
of the Indicative Mode.
It ſeems, therefore, that whatever other Metaphy :
fical Modes there may be in the theory of Univerſal
Grammar, there are in Engliſh no other Grammatical
Modes than thoſe above deſcribed .
As in Latin the Subjunctive fupplies the want of an
Optative Mode, fo does it likewiſe in Engliſh, with
the Auxiliary may placed before the Nominative Cafe :
as, “ Long may be live !" When Almighty God is the
Subject, the Auxiliary is frequently omitted : as, “ Tbe
LORD bleſs thee, and keep thee !" Num . vi. 24. But
the phraſe with the Pronoun is obſolete : as, “ Unto
which he vouchjafe to bring us all !” Liturgy.
love :
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love ; I am loved, I was loved ; I have

loved , I have been loved ; I shall, or will,
love, or be loved . ”

The two principal Auxiliaries , to bave,

and to be, are thus varied , according to
Perſon , Number, Time, and Mode.
Time is Preſent, Paft, or Future.
TO H A V E.
Indicative Mode,
Preſent Time.
Perſon

1. I have, We
Ye Shave,
,

2. Thou haſt [ 5 ]
3. He hath , or has [6] ; They )
That the Participle is a mere Mode of the Verb , is
manifeft, if our Definition of a Verb be admitted : for
it fignifies being, doing, or ſuffering, with the defigna
tion of Time fuperadded. But if the eſſence of the
Verb be made to confiſt in Affirmation , not only the
Participle will be excluded from its place in the Verb ,
but the Infinitive itſelf alſo ; which certain ancient
Grammarians of great authority held to be alone the
genuine Verb , denying that title to all the other Modes.
See HERMES, p . 164.
21 [ 5 ] Thou, in the Polite, and even in the Familiar
Style, is diſuſed, and the Plural You is employed in
Itead of it ; we ſay , You have ; not, Thou kajt. Though
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68 INTRODUCTION TO

Paft Time.
1. I had , We
2. Thou hadít, Ye had .
3. He had ; They ‫ܐܩܘܐ‬

in this caſe we apply You to a ſingle Perſon, yet the

Verb too mult agree with it in the Plural Number : it
muſt neceſſarily be, You have ; not, You haft. - You
was, the Second Perſon Plural of the Pronoun placed
in agreement with the Firſt or Third Perſon Singular
of the Verb, is an enormous Soleciſin : and yet Au
thors of the firſt rank have inadvertently fallen into
it. “ Knowing that you was my old maſter's good
friend ." Addiſon ; Spect. N ° 517 . 66 The account
you was pleaſed to ſend me." Bentley, Phileleuch . Lipf.
Would to God
Part II . See the Letter prefixed . 6
jou was within her reach !” Bolingbroke to Swift,
Letter 46 . “ If you was here .” Ditto, Letter 47 .
“ I am juſt now as well, as when you was here.” Pope
to Swift, P. S. to Letter 56 . On the contrary the
Solemn Style admits not of 1 ou for a ſingle Perſon .
This hath led Mr. Pope into a great impropriety in the
beginning of his Melfiah :
" Thou my voice inſpire,
Who touch'& Ilaiah's hallow'd lips with fire ;'
The Solemnity of the Style would not admit of rou
for Thou in the Pronoun ; nor the meaſure of the Verſe
touchedft, or didſt touch , in the Verb ; as it indiſpenſably
ought to be, in the one, or the other, of theſe two
forms: You, who touched ; or Tou, who fouckdi, or
didft touch
Future
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who now reprovat me for it ,

Hadslené , Pereitis
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Future Time.
1. I ſhall, or will, We ſhall ,
2. Thou ſhalt, or wilt [ 7 ] , Shave ; Ye or will,
3. He ſhall, or will, They have.
9

« What art thou, ſpeak, that on deſigns unknown,

While others fleep , thus range the camp alone ? "
Pope's Iliad. x. 90.
"Accept theſe grateful tears for thee they flow ;
For thee, that ever felt another's woe .” Ib , xix. 319.
6. Faultleſs thou dropt from his unerring ſkill.”
Dr. Arbuthnot ; Dodley's Poems, vol. i.
Again :
“ Juſt of thy word, in every thought ſincere ;
Who knew no wiſh , but what the world might hear."
Pope, Epitaph.
It ought to be your in the firſt line, or kneweſt in the
ſecond,
: In order to avoid this Grammatical Inconvenience,
the two diſtinct forms of Thou and you are often uled
promiſcuouſly by our modern Poets, in the fame Poem ,
in the ſame Paragraph , and even in the fame Sentence ;
very inelegantly and improperly :
“ Now, now, I ſeize, I claſp thy charms;
And now you burſt, ah cruel ! from my arıns.
Pope.
[ 6 ] Hath properly belongs to the ſerious and fo
lemn ſtyle ; basy to the familiar. The ſame may be
obſerved of dotb and does,
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 INTRODUCTION TO

Imperative Mode.
1. Let une have , Let us have ,
2. Have thou , Have ye ,
or, Do thou have, or, Do ye have,
3 . Let him have ; Let them have.

Subjunctive Mode ,
Preſent Time.
I. I We
2. Thou Shave ; Ye have,
3. He They }
Infinitive Mode.
Preſent, To have : Paft, To have had .

But, confounded with thy art,

Inquires her name, that has his heart.”' Waller.
“ 'Th' unwearied Sun from day to day
Does his Creator's pow'r diſplay .” Addiſon .
The nature of the ſtyle, as well as the harmony of the 1
verſe, ſeems to require in theſe places hath and doth .
[ 7 ] The Auxiliary Verb will is always thus formed
in the ſecond and third Perſons fingular: but the
Verb to will, not being an Auxiliary, is formed regu
larly in thoſe Perſons : I will, Thou willeft, He willeth,
or wills. “ Thou, that art the author and beſtower of
life, canít doubtleſs reſtore it alſo, if thou will , and
when thou will’d : but whether thou will ft (wilt]
pleaſe to reſtore it, or not, that Thou alone knoweſt. ”
Atterbury, Serm . I. 7 .
Participle,
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Participle .
Preſent, Having : Perfect [8 ], Had :
Paft, Having had ,

TO BE :
Indicative Mode .
Preſent Time,
1. I am , We
2. Thou art, Ye are.
3. He is ; They For
Or ,

1. I be, We
2. Thou beeft, Ye be.
}be.
3. He is [ 9] ; They

[ 8] This Participle repreſents the action as com

plete and finiſhed ; and, being ſubjoined to the Aux
iliary to have, conſtitutes the Perfect Times : I call it
therefore the Perfect Participle. The fame, fubjoined
to the Auxiliary to be, conſtitutes the Paffive Verb ;
and in that ſtate, or when uſed without the Auxiliary
in a Paffive ſenſe, is called the Paſſive Participle,
[9] “ I think it be thine indeed ; for thou lieſt in
it .” Shakeſpear, Hamlet. Be, in the Singular Num
ber of this Time and Mode, eſpecially in the third
Perſon, is obſolete ; and is become ſomewhat 'anti
quated in the Plural.
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72 INTRODUCTION TO
Paft Time.
1. I was, We
2. Thou waft, Ye were, vtech .
3. He was ; They
Future Time .

1. I ſhall, or will, We ſhall,

2. Thou ſhalt, or wilt, be ; Ye or will ,
3. He ſhall, or will, They be.
Imperative Mode.
1. Let me be, Let us be,
2. Be thou , B eye ,
or, Do thou be , or Do ye bey
3. Let him be ; Let thein be .

Subjunctive Mode.
1. I. We
2. Thou be ; Ye be.
3. He 1
They
Paft Timne ,
, 1. I were, We
2. Thou wert [ 1 ], Ye were,
e
3 . u wer ; They frose

[ 1] “ Before the ſun ,

Before the heav'ns thou wert." Milton .
• Remember what thou avert." Dryden .
So I knew thou wert nột ſlow to hear." Addiſon .
Inhnitive
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Infinitive Mode.

Preſent, To be : Paft, To have been.

Participle.

Preſent, Being : Perfect, Been :

Paft, Having been.

The Verb Active is thụs varied according to

Perſon , Number, Time and Mode.
Indicative Mode.
Preſent Time.
Perſon

Sing . Plur.
1. I love, We
.

2. Thou loveſt, Ye love,

3 . He loveth, or loves ; They

6 Thou who of old wert fent to Iſrael's court. ”

1
Prior.
• All this thou wert."
Pope.
6. Thou , Stella , wert no longer young,
When firſt for thee my harp I ſtrung ." Swift.
Shall we in deference to theſe great authorities allow
wert to be the ſame with waſt, and common to the In
dicative and Subjunctive Mode ? or rather abide by
the practice of our beſt antient writers; the propriety
of the language, which requires, as far as may be, dif
tinct forms for different Modes ; and the analogy of
formation in each Mode ; I was, Thou waſt ; I were ,
Thou wert ? all which conſpire to make pert peculiar
to the Subjunctive Mode.
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74 INTRODUCTION TO
Paft Time,
1. I loved , We
2. Thou lovedft , Ye loved ,
3. He loved ; They
Future Time,
1. I ſhall, or will, We ſhall
2. Thou ſhalt, or wilt , Slove ; Ye . Sor will,
3. He ſhall, or will , They love.
Imperative Mode.
1. Let me love, Let us love [ 2 ],
2. Love thou , Love ye ,
or, Do thou love, or, Do ye love, .
3. Let him love ; Let them love,

Subjunctive Mode.
Preſent Time ,
1. I We
Thou love ; Ye love ,
3. He They Blon
And,
1. I may We
may love ;
2. Thou mayeſt love ; Ye and
3. He may
} They J have loved [ 3 ]
[ 2 ] The other form of the Firſt Perfon Plural of
the Imperative, love we, is grown obſolete.
[ 3 ] Note, that the Imperfect and Perfect Times are
here put together. And it is to be obſerved, thar in
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Paſt Time.

1. I might We inight love ;

2. Thou mighteſt love ; Ye and
3. He might They ) have loved [ 3].

And,
I could, ſhould, would ; Thou couldft, & c . love ;
and have loved.

Infinitive Mode.

Prefent, To love : Palt, to have loved.

the Subjunctive Mode, the event being ſpoken of under

a condition, or fuppoſition, or in the form of a wiſh ,
and therefore as doubtful and contingent, the Verb
itſelf in the Preſent, and the Auxiliary both of the
Preſent and Paſt Imperfect Times, often carry with
them ſomewhat of a Future fenfe : as, “ If he coine
to -morrow , I may ſpeak to him :" _ " if he ſhould , or
would, come to -morrow , I might, would, could, or
ſhould , ſpeak to him . ” Obſerve alſo , that the Auxi
liaries fhauld and would in the Imperfect Times are
uſed to expreſs the Preſent and future as well as the
Paſt ; as, 66 It is my deſire that he Mould, or world ,
come now , or to - morrow ;” as well as, “ It was my
defire, that he ſhould, or would , come geſterday ." So
that in this Mode the preciſe Time of the Verb is
very much determined by the nature and drift of the
Sentence,
Particip for
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76 INTRODU TO

'rtb ! Iw . Participle: ! 2101 : :

Preſent, Loýing : Perfect, Loved ::
SANSV 1 Paft, Having loved...

But in diſcourſe we have often occaſion

to ſpeak of Time, not only as Preſent, Paft,
and Future, at large and indeterminately ;
but alſo as ſuch with ſome particular dil
tinction and limitation ; that is, as paſſing ,
or finiſhed ; as imperfect, or perfect. This
will beſt be ſeen in an example of a Verb
laid out and diſtributed according to theſe
diſtinctions of Time.
to
Indefinite, or Undetermined ,
Time :
Preſent, Paft, Future .
I love ; I loved ; I ſhall love.

Definite , or Determined ,
Time :
Preſent Imperfect ; ; I am (now .) loving,.
Preſent Perfect : I have ( now ) loved .:
Paft Imperfect : I was ( then) loving,
Paft Perfect: I had (thëni)-loved .
Future limperfe &t : I ſhall ( tlien) be loving.
Future Perfect ? Ithall ( then ) have loved .

It
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It is needleſs here to ſet down at large the

ſeveral Variations of the Definite Times ;

as they conſiſt only in the proper Variations

of the Auxiliary, joined to the Preſent or
Perfect Participle ;, which have been al
ready given.
To expreſs the Preſent and Paſt Imper
fect of the Active and Neuter Verb, the
Auxiliary do is ſometimes uſed : I do ( now)
love ; I did ( then ) love.
Thus, with very little variation of the
principal Verb, the ſeveral circumſtances
of Mode and Time ' are clearly expreſſed

by the help of the Auxiliaries, be, have, do,

let, may , can , ſhall, will.
t . The peculiar force of the ſeveral Auxi
liaries is to be obſerved. De and did mark
the Action itſelf, or the Time of it [4] ,

[4] « Perdition catch my ſoul

But I do love thee !”
“ This to me
In dreadful ſecrecy impart they did.” Shakeſpear.
“ Die he certainly did . " Sherlock , Vol. I. Difc. 7 ,
« Yes, I did love her ; " that is, at that time, or once ;
istimating a negation, or doubt, of prefent love,
with
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78 INTR TO .

with greater force and diſtinction . They

are alſo of frequent and almoſt neceſſary uſe
in Interrogative and Negative Sentences.
They ſometimes alſo ſupply the place of
another Verb, and make the repetition of
it, in the ſame or a ſubſequent ſentence , un
neceſſary : as ,
“ He loves not plays,
As thou doft, Anthony."
Shiakeſpear, Jul. Cæſ.

Let does not only expreſs permiſſion ; but

praying , exhorting, commanding. May
and might expreſs the poſſibility or liberty
of doing a thing ; can and could , the power.
Muſt is ſometimes called in for a helper,
and denotes neceſſity. Will, in the firſt
Perſon ſingular and plural, promiſes or
threatens ; in the ſecond and third Perſons,
only foretells : fall, on the contrary , in the
firſt Perſon, ſimply foretells ; in the ſecond
^ The Lord called Samuel; and he ran unto Eli,
and faid, Here am I, for thou calledt me.-- And the
Lord called yet again , Samuel. · And Samuel aroſe
and went to Eli, and ſaid, ' Here am I, for thoạ didt
call ine . I Sain , iii , 4-6.
and
 they had rather lose thur estales, liburties,

Uligiórk lwes, Kaw the pleasure of youth .

ing . fe
Juifs, letter concl . wJust
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and third Perſons, promiſes, commands, or
threatens [ 5 ]. But this muſt be underſtood
of Explicative Sentences ; for when the
Sentence is Interrogative, juſt the reverſe
for the moſt part take places : Thus, “ I
ſhall go ; you will go ; ” expreſs event only :
but, “ will you go ? ” imports intention ;
and “ Mall I go ? ” refers to the will of an +
other, But again, “ he shall go, " and
Shall he go ? ” both imply will, expreſſing

pr referring to a command . Would pri

marily denotes inclination of will ; and
Should , obligation : but they both vary their
import, and are often uſed to expreſs fim
ple event.
: Do and have make the Prefent Time ;

did, bad [ 6 ], the Paſt ; fall, will, the Fu

[ 5] This diſtinction was not obſerved formerly as

to the word Jhall, which was uſed in the Second and
Third Perſons to expreſs ſimply the Event. So like
wiſe should was uſed , where we now make uſe of would .
See the Vulgar Tranflation of the Bible.
[6 ] It has been very rightly obſerved, that the
Verb had, in the common phraſe, I had rather, is not
properly uſed, either as an Active or as an Auxiliary
turer
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ture : let is employed in forming the Im

perative Mode; may, might, could, would,

jould, in forming the Subjunctive. The
Prepoſition to , placed before the Verb ,
makes the Infinitive Mode [ 7]. Have,

Verb ; that, being in the Paſt time, it cannot in this

caſe be properly expreffive of timePreſent ; and that
it is by no means reducible to any Grammatical con
ſtruction . In truth , it ſeemsto have ariſen from a
mere miſtake, in reſolving the familiar and ambiguous
abbreviation, I'd rather, into I had rather, inſtead of
Iwould rather ; which latter is the regular, analogous,
and proper expreſſion . See Two Grammatical Eflays.
London , 1768. Eſlay 1 .
[ 7 ] Biſhop Wilkins gives the following elegant ina
veſtigation of the Modes, in his Real Character, Part
iii. Chap . 5 .
66 To fhew in what manner the Subject is to be
joined with his Predicate, the Copula between their
is affected with a Particle ; which , from the uſe of its
is called Modus, the manner or Mode.
Now the Subject and Predicate may be joined to
getber, either Simply, or with ſome kind of Limitation ;
and accordingły theſe Modes are Primary, or Ses;
condary
The Primary Modes are called by Grammarians In
dicative, and Imperative.
When the matter is declared to be fo, or at least when
it ſeems in the Speaker's power to have it be ſo, as the
through
Thisis not the case ;for to placed before
the verbloveth urill notmake the in
Jimlive mood mae
that have said
July that to placed befoudominouns
mahked verby.
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through its ſeveral Modes and Times, is

placed only before the Perfect Participle ;

bare union of Subject and Predicate would import;

then the Copula is nakedly expreffed without any
variation : and this manner of expreſſing it is called
the Indicative Mode .
When it is neither declared to be fo , nor ſeems to
be immediately in the Speaker's power to have it fo ;
then he can do no more in words, but make out the
exprefſion of his will to him that hath the thing in his
power : namely, to
Superior, Petition ,
his Equal, by Perſuaſion, And the
Inferior, Command.
manner of theſe affecting the Copula, (Be it fo, or,
let it be fo ), is called the Imperative Mode ; of which
there are theſe three varieties, very fit to be diſtinctly
provided for. As for that other uſe of the Imperative
Mode, when it ſignifies Permiſſion : this may be ſuf
ficiently expreſſed by the Secondary Mode of Liberty ;"
You maydo it.
The Secondary Modes are ſuch, as, when the Copula
is affected with any of them, make the Sentence to be
( as Logicians call it) a Modal Propofition.
This happens, when the matter in diſcourſe, naine
ly, the being, or doing, or ſuffering of a thing, is con
fidered, not ſimply by itſelf, but gradually in its cauſes ;
from which it proceeds either contingently, or neceffa .
rily .
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82 INTROD TO

and be, in like manner , before the Preſent

and Paſſive Participles : the reſyonly before

the Verb , or another Auxiliary , in its Pri
mary form .

Then a thing feems to be left as Contingent, when

the Speaker expreſſes only the Poſſibility of it, or his
own Liberty to it.
1. The Poſibility of a thing depends upon the power
of its cauſe ; and may be expreſſed ,
Abſolute , Can ;
when { Conditional, } by the Particle Could .
2. The Liberty of a thing depends upon a freedom
froin all obſtacles either within or without, and is
uſually expreſſed in our language,
when Conditional, } by the Particle 5Might,

Then a thing ſeems to be of Necefſity, when the

Speaker exprefTeth the reſolution of his own Will, or
fome other Obligation upon him from without.
3. The Inclination of the Will is expreſſed,
if s
if. { Conditional, } by the Particle Would .
4. The Neceſſity of a thing from ſome external
Obligation, whether Natural or Moral, which we call
Duty, is expreſſed,
Abſolute,
Conditional, { Muft,ought,ſhould."
See alſo HERMES , Book I. Chap. viii.
When
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wło,dittrig ni the stocks , retuge third
shame , s

Hat mang henee, xottis muh;

sit there ,
Thabilemit , Rocha
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1 When an Auxiliary is joined to the Verb ,
the Auxiliary goes through all the varia
tions of Perſon and Nụmber ; and the Verb
itſelf continues invariably the ſame. When
there are two or more Auxiliaries joined to
the Verb, the firſt of them only is varied
according to Perſon and Number. The
Auxiliary muſt admits of no variation .

The Paſſive Verb is only the Participle

Palive, ( which for the moſt part is the ſame
with the Indefinite Paft Time Active, and
always the ſame with the Perfect Partici
ple, ) joined to the Auxiliary Verb to be,
through all its Variations : as , “ I am loved ;
I was loved ; I have been loved ; I fall be
loved : ” and ſo on , through all the Perſons,
the Numbers , the Times , and the Modes.

. The Neuter Verb is varied like the Ac

tive ; but, having ſomewhat of the Nature
of the Paſſive, admits in many initances of
the Paſſive form , retaining ſtill the Neuter
ſignification ; chiefly in ſuch Verbs, as
F 2 ſignify
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fignify ſome fort of motion, or change of

place or condition : as , " Lam come ; I was
gone ; I am grown ; I was fallen [ 8 ]. " The
pa
[8 ]*I doubt much of the propriety of the follow .
ing examples : " The rules of aur holy religion, from
1
which we are infinitely fwerved ." Tillotſon, Vol. I.
Serm . 27. The whole obligation of that law and
covenant, which God made with the Jews, was
alſo ccafed." Ib. Vol. II. Serm . 52 . " Whoſe num
ber - was now amounted to three hundred ." Swift,
Conteſts and Diffenfions, Chap. 3. 4 This Mareſchal,
upon fome diſcontent, was entered into a conſpiracy
againſt his maſter ." Addiſon , Freeholder, No 3
* At the end of a Campaign , when half the men are
deſerted or killed ." Addiſon , Tatler, Nº42. Neuter
Verbs are fometimes employed : very improperly as
Actives : “ Go, flee thee away into the land of Judah .”
Amos vii. 12. “ I think it by no means a fit and de
tent thing to vie Charities, and erect the reputation of
one upon the ruins of another. " . Atterbury , Serm .
lud. “ So many learned men , that have ſpent their
whole time and pains toagree theSacred with the Pro
Fane Chronology." Sir William Temple, Works, Fol.
VORT: ' p : 295
" How would be Gods my righteous toils fucceed ?"
Pope, Odyfl. xiv .-447 .
If ove this-arm fucceed . In Ibid . xxi. 219.
And Active Verbs are as improperly made Neuter :
22, “ I mult premiſe with three circumitances ." Swift,
Verb
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Verb am , was, in this caſe preciſely defines

the Time of the action or event, but does
not change the nature of it ; the Paſſive
form ſtill expreſſing, not properly a Paſſion ,
but only a ſtate or condition of Being.

IRREGULAR VERBS

I N Engliſh both the Paſt TimeActive

and the Participle Perfect, or Paſſive,
åre formed by adding to the Verb ed ; or do
only , when the Verb ends in e : as , “ turn ,
turned ; love, loved . " The Verbs that vary
from this rule, in either or in both caſes ,
are eſteemed Irregular.
The nature of our language, the Accent
and Pronunciation of it, inclinęs us to con
tract even all our Regular Verbs : thus
loved, turned, are commonly pronounced in
one fyllable, lov'd, turn'd : and the ſecond
Perſon , which was originally in three fylla

Qd Anne's Laſt Miniſtry, Chap. 2. “ Thoſe that

think te ingratiate with him by calumniating me."
Bentley, Diflent. on Phalaris, P - 519 .""
F 3 bles,

1
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86 ÎNTRODUCTION TO

bles, lovedeſt, türnedeſt, is become a diffylla

ble , lovedft, turnedt: for as we generally
throw the accent as far back as poſſible to
wards the firſt part of the word , ( in ſome
even to the fourth fyllable from the end , )
the ſtreſs being laid on the firſt ſyllables,
the reſt are pronounced in a lower tone,
more, rapidly and indiſtinctly ; and ſo are
often either wholly dropped , or blended into
one another .

It ſometimes happens alſo, that the word,

which ariſes from a regular change, does
not found eaſily or agreeably ; ſometimes
by the rapidity of our pronunciation the
vowels are ſhortened or loft; and the con
ſonants, which are thrown together, do not
eaſily.coaleſce with one another, and are
therefore changed into others of the fame
organ, or of a kindred ſpecies. This oc
calions a further deviation from the regular
förr : thus loveth, turneth , are contracted
into lov’dh , turn'rh, and theſe for eaſier
pronunciation immediately become loves,
turns.
Verbs
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Verbs ending in ch , ck, P, X, ll, ) , in the

Paſt TimeActive, and the Participle Per
fect or Paffivé, admit the change of ed into
t ; as , [ 9 ] Snatcht, checkt, ſnapt, mixt, drop
ping alſo one of the double letters, dwelt,
past ; fôr ſnatched , checked , frapped, mixed ,
dwelled, paſſed ; thoſe that end in l, m, n, p,
after a diphthong, moreover ſhorten the
diphthong, or change it into a ſingle ſhort
vowel ; as, dealt, dreamt, meant, felt, Nept,
&c : all for the ſame reaſon ; from the

quickneſs of the pronunciation, and becauſe

the d after a ſhort vowel will not eaſily
coaleſce with the preceding conſonant.
Thoſe that end in ve change alſo v into f ;
as , bereave, bereft ; leave, left ; becauſe like
wiſe v after a ſhort vowel will not eaſily
coaleſce with 4.

All theſe, of which I have hitherto given

examples, are conſidered not as Irregular,

(9) Some of theſe Contractions are harſh and diſ

agreeable; and it were better, if they were avoided
and diſuſed : but they prevail in common diſcourſe,
and are admitted into Poetry ; which latter indeed.cant
not well do without them .
F 4
88 INTRODUCTION TO

but - as Contracted onlys in moſt of them

the Intire as well as the Contracted formsis
uſed , and the wintire form is generally to
be preferred to the Contracted . 37.5
7. The formation of Verbs in Engliſh, both
Regular and Irregular, is derived from the
Saxon . - vp i brim orla menin
T
The Irregular Verbs in Engliſh are all
Monoſyllables, unleſs compounded ; and
they are for the moſt partthe fame words 1

which are Irregular Verbs in the Saxon .

As all our Regular Verbs are ſubject to
ſome kind of Contraction ; ſo the firſt Claſs
of Irregulars is of thoſe , that become fo
from the ſame cauſe.
uit Sui
T ! 1.

Irregulars by Contraction .

Some Verbs ending in d or t have the

Preſent, the Paſt Time, and the Para
ticiple Perfect and Paſſive, all alike, with
out any variation : as, beat, burſt [ 1 ],
[ 1 ] Theſe two have alſo beaten and burſion in the
Participle ; and in that form they belong to the Third
Claſs of Irregulars,
Gift
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hentet

1
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caft [ 2 ] , coft, cut, heat * [ 3 ] , hit, hurt, knit,

let, lift *, light.* [ 4 ], put, quit *, read ( 5 ),
rent, rid , ſet, ſhed, ſhred , ſhut, fit, ſplit [ 6 ],
ſpread, thruſt, wet * . oj bur343,04"

[ 2] Shakeſpear ufes the Participle in the Regular

Form : tranh di bis huile
" And when the mind is quicken'd , out of doubt
The organs, tho' defunct and dead before ,
Break up their drowſie grave, newly move
With cafted flough, and freſh celerity ." Hen . V.
[ 3 ] “ He commanded , that they ſhould hear the
furnace one ſeven times more than it was wont to be
beat," Dan. iii. 19.
The Verbs inarked thus *, throughout the three
Claſſes of Irregulars, have the Regular as well as the
Irregular Form in uſe . to
[4 ] This Verb in the Paſt Time and Participle is
pronounced ſhort, light or lit : but the Regular Form
is preferable, and prevails moſt in writing.
[ 5 ] This Verb in the Paſt Time and Participle is
pronounced ſhort ; read, red, red ; like lead, led , led ;
and perhaps ought to be written in this manner : our
antient writers ſpelt it redde.
[ 6 ] Shakeſpear uſes the Participle in the Regular
Porm : . Oo
" That ſelf hand , I'd
Which writ his honour in the acts it did ,
Hath , with the courage which the heart did lend it,
Splitted the heart itfelt," . Ant. and Cleop.
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Theſe are Contractions from beated, burſt

ed, cafted, &c ; becauſe of the diſagreeable
ſound of the ſyllable ed after d or t [ 7 ] .
Others in the Paſt Time, and Participle
Perfect and Paſſive, vary a little from the
Preſent, by ſhortening the diphthong , or
changing the d into t ; as , lead , led ;
ſweat, ſwet * [ 8 ] ; meet, met ; bleed , bled ;
breed , bred ; feed, fed ; ſpeed , ſped ; bend ,
bent * ; lend , lent ; rend, rent ; ſend, fent ;

[ 7 ] They follow the Saxon rule : “ Verbs which

in the Infinitive end in dan and tan, " (that is, in
Engliſh , d and t ; for an is only the Characteriſtic
termination of the Saxon Infinitive ; ) “ in the Pre
terit and Participle Preterit commonly, for the ſake of
better found, throw away the final ed ; as beot, afed,
(both in the Preterit and Participle Preterit,) for beoted ,
afeded ; from beotan, afedon. " Hickes, Grammat.
Saxon. cap . ix. So the fame Verbs in Engliſh . beat,
fed, inſtead of beated, feeded.
[ 8 ] “ How the drudging goblin fevet."
Milton , Allegro .
Shakeſpear uſes feveaten, as the Participle of this
Verb :
« Greaſe, that's ſweaten
From the murtherer's gibbet, throw.” Macbeth .
In this form it belongs to the Third Clafs of Irregu
· lars.
ſpend ,
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ſpend, ſpent; build , built * , geld, gelt * ;

gild , gilt * ; gird , girt* ; loſe, loft.
Others not ending in d or t are formed by
Contraction ; have, bad, for baved ; make,
made, for maked ; flee, fled , for flee-ed ; fhoe,
food, for ſee - ed .
The following, beſide the Contraction ,
change alſo the Vowel ; ſell, fold ; tell,
told ; clothe, clad *.
Stand, ſtood ; and dare, durft, ( which in
the Participle hath regularly dared , ) are
directly from the Saxon , fandan, ſtod ;
dýrran, dorſte.

II .

Irregulars in gbt.
The Irregulars of the Second Claſs end
in ght, both in the Part Time and Partici
ple ; and change the vowel or diphthong
into au or ou : they are taken from the
Saxon , in which the termination is bte.
Saxon .
Bring, brought : Bringan , brohte .
Buy , bought : Bycgean , bohte .
Catch ,
92 INTRODUCTION TO :

Saxon .
Catch , caught :
Fight, fought [ 1 ] : Feotan , fuht.
Teach , : taught : Tæchan , tähte .
Think , thought: Thencan , thohte ,
Seek , ſought : Secán , fohte .
Work , wrought: Weorcan , worhte ..

Fraught ſeems rather to be an Adjective

than the Participle of the Verb to freight,
which has regularly freighted. * Raught
from reach is obſolete ,

III . S2
Irregulars in en .
The Irregulars of the Third Clafs form
the Paſt Time by changing the vowel or
diphthong of the Preſent ; and the Parti2
[ i] “ As in this glorious, and well- foughten field
Wekept together in our chivalry... 18
1. YOXS. Shakeſpear, Hen . V.
1.1 . On the foughten field -0.13
Michael, and his Angels, prevalent, antio
Encamping, plac'd in guard their watches roynd.”
Mifton, P.L. V1.476
This Participle feems not agreeable to the Analogy
of derivation , which obtains in this Claſs of Verbs .

sipte
* Hesmiled me m the face raught
mhis hand,

And with a fuble gripe,sau

Taky Men. I

to pright{ dishaughi forfitthed Satishaded

You vill atóminalle tents,

thus proindly mightupon our Bojan planus

Jroil. & CF Vll.
And then again begin , shop again,

drif theu duit dushaught imad with'tirun

ticha
When they looked upon me they thaked
tur headd.Pealm CX 25.

word tot
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ciple Perfect and Paſſive, by adding the

termination en ; beſide, for the moſt part,
the change of the vowel or diphthong,
Theſe alſo derive their formation in both
parts from the Saxon .

Preſent. Palt . Participle.

a changed into e.
Fall , fell, fallen.
into
Awake, awoke *
[ awaked .]
a into 00 .
Forſake , forfook , forſaken .
Shake, #Thook , ſhaken ( 21.
Take , took, taken .
aw into ww.
Draw , drew , drawn ( 3 )
aya into 6W 1
Slay , new, Nayo ( 3].

[ 2] “ A fly and conſtant knave, not to befak'ds"

Shakeſpear, Cymb.
1 “ Wert thou ſome ſtar, that from the ruin'd roof
Of Jhak'd Olympus by mitchance didft fall."
Milton's Poems
The Regular form of the Participle in theſe places is
improper.
[3] When en follows a Vowel or Liquid , the e is
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into a or Oy
Get, gat, or got, gotten.
Help , [ helped ( 4 ), ] holpen * . *
Melt, (melted ,] molten *
Swell , [ ſwelled, ] ſwollen
ea into a or 0.
Eat, ate, eaten .

Bear, bare , or bore , born ,

Break , brake, or broke, broken.
Cleave, clave, or clove *, cloven , or cleft .
Speak , ſpake, or ſpoke, ſpoken .
Swear, ſware, or ſwore, ſworn .
Tear, tare, or tore , torn .
Wear, ware, or wore, worn .
Heave , hove . hoven *
Shear, ſhore , Thorn .
Steal, ſtole , ſtolen , or ftoin .
Tread , trode ,, trodden .
Weave, wove , woven .
ee into Oy
Creep, crope *, ( creeped, or crept . ]

dropped : fo drawn, Slayn , (or ſain , ) are inſtead of

drawen,Mayen ; ſo likewiſe known, born, are for knowen,
boren, in the Saxon cnaten , boren : and ſo of the reſt .
[ 4] The antient Irregular form holpe is ſtill uſed in
converſation .
Freeze
Tous music mads me let it sound no more ;
Jer, tough it hav hafiemadmen to thururla,
Inmeikh Hemsiluill make wiwmen mad .
Shakop: thich. 2 .
 talso chode. And the people chode
with Mosed. " Numb. xx . 3,
&

+
hathore , that thou tooften hau helid ;
Maksh : Nich . ?
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2
Freeze, froxe , frozen ,
Seethe, fod , fodden .
ee into aw.
See, ſaw , ſeen .
i long into i ſhort, i ſhort .
Bite, bit, bitten ,
Chide, + chid, chidden .
Hide, hid , hidden .
Slide, flid , fidden .
i ſhort.
i long into 02
"Abide, abode.
Climb, clomb, [ climbed .]
Drive, drove, driven ,
Ride, rode, ridden ,
Riſe , roſe [ 5 ] riſen .
Shine, ſhone * [ ſhined .]
Shrive, ſhroye , Thriven ,
Smite, fmote, fmitten . '

Stride, + ftrode, ftridden .

[ 5 ] Rife, with i ſhort, hath been improperly uſed

as the Paſt Time of this Verb : “ That form of the
firſt or primigenial earth , which riſe immediately out
of Chaos, was not the fame, nor like to that of the
preſent earth . " . Burnet, Theory of the Earth , B.I.
Chap. iv. “ If we hold faſt to that fcripture con
cluſion , that all mankind riſe from one head .” Ibid .
B. II, Chap. vii.

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Strive, ſtrove * (triven *
Thrive, throve [6 ], thriven .
Write [ 7 ], wrote, written .
1 i long into u , i ſhort. 1
Strike, ftruck , ſtricken , or ftrucken ,
i ſhort into a
Bid, bade, bidden.
Give, gave , given .
Sit [ 8 ], + fat, ſitten .

[6] Mr. Pope has uſed the Regular form of the Paſt
Time of this Verb :
“ In the fat age of pleaſure, wealth, and eaſe ,
Sprung the rank weed, and thriv'd with large in
creaſe." Efray on Crit, 1
( 7) This Verb is alſo formed like thoſe of i long
into ifort; Write, writ, written : and by Contrac
tion writ in the Participle ; but, I think, improperly .
[ 8] Frequent miſtakes are made in the formation
of the Participle of this Verh. The analogy plainly
requires fitten ; which was formerly in uſe: “ The
army having ſitten there ſo long." - Which was
enough to make him ftir, thay would not have ſtæer
ſtill, though Hannibal had been quiet. " Raleigh .
** That no Parliament ſhould be diffolved, till it had
fitten five months.” Hobbes, Hift. of Civil Wars,
p . 257. But it is now alınoſt wholly difuſed , the form
of the Part Time fat having taken its place. « The
court was fat, before Sir Roger çame." Addiſon ,
Spect. No.122 , See allo Tatler, Nº 253 , and 265.
Spit,

1
X
Theletevasſle with all thebus'neft
Iurit to his holineft. - Shaksh: Hen . VI .

And,fearing best thing she fall into the

quickdarldi,Arabe sail ,co werdriven .
dett XXVII./7
+
Faldo Jade. but this is obsolete,

He shake of the gallow ke hatten war.

[7] Sher
formation ,the defied
tense feruit
w now risolere
 1
1
1
1 1
 ENGLISH GRAMMAR .
97
Spit, ſpat, ſpitten.
i ſhort into u.
Dig, dug *, [ digged .)
te into ay.
Lie [ 9 ] lay , lien , or lain .
Dr. Middleton hath , with great propriety, reſtored the
true Participle.- " To have fitten on the heads of the
Apoitles : to have fitten upon each of them .” Works,
Vol. II . p. 30 . « Bleſſed is the man ,—that hath not
ſat in the ſeat of the ſcornful. ” Pſal. i. 1 . The old
Editions have fit ; which may be perhaps allowed, as
a Contiaction of fitten. " And when he was fet, his
diſciples came unto himn ,” xabarla aulov, Matt. V. 1 ,
who is ſet on the right hand ,” _ " and is ſet down
at the right hand of the throne of God : ” in both places
Ekattoev, Heb. viii. 3. & xii. 2. ( ſee alſo Matt . xxvii .
ig. Luke xxii. 55. John xiii. 12. Rev. iii. 21. ) Set
can be no part of the Verb to fit. If it belong to the
Verb to ret , the Tranſlation in theſe paſſages is wrong :
for to get ſignifies to place, but without any deſignation
of the poſture of the perſon placed ; which is a cir.
cumftance of importance expreſſed by the original.
[ 9] This Neuter Verb is frequently confounded
with the Verb Active to lay, ( that is, to put or place ; ]
which is Regular, and has in the Paft Time and Parti
ciple layed orlaid .
*** For him , thro' hoſtile camps I bent my way ;
For him , thus prostrate at thy feet I lay :
* Large gifts proportion'd to thy wrath I bear.”
Pope, Iliad xxiv . 622 .
inte
 TION
ODUC
98 INTR TO
o into e.
7
Hold , held, holden .
0 inta is
1
Do, did, done, i . e , doen ,
into
Chooſe , choſe, choſen ,
ow into ew.
Blow, blew , blown .
Crow, crew, [crowed . ]
Grow , grew, grown ,
Know , knew, known.
Throw, threw , thrown ,
Ý into ew, ow,
Fly [ 1 ], flew , flown (2 ) .

Here lay is evidently uſed for the preſent time, inſtead

of lie,
[ 1 ] That is, as a bird, volare; whereas to flee fig
nifies fugere, as from an enemy. So in the Saxon and
German, fleogan, fliegen, volare ; fleon, fliehen, fugere.
This ſeems to be the proper diſtinction between to fly,
and to flee ; which in the Preſent Time are very often
confounded . Our Tranſlation of the Bible is not
quite free from this miſtake. It hath flee for volare,
in perhaps ſeven or eight places out of a great num
ber ; but never fly for fugere.
1
[ 2 ] " For rhyme in Greece or Rome was never known,
Till by barbarian deluges o'erflown ."
Roſcommon , Eſſay .
The
 [?] Sohdy waitiw bakshath judgemen t
thew
then jullqu have been babes have
babes. Great ? ( llown
From himple sources ;-
Shaksp . All's wellte. we
whoufourdekou wa muftown will

food ? 46XXI.16.
Xe lorked , f. hehold, there wasa cake

baken on the wald.- 1 Hings xix.6.

He said this other day you ought him

a thousand poundó Shakop. Hur.com

‫وبی ام و‬
 ENGLISH GRAMMAR .. 99

The following are Irregular only in the

Participle ; and that without changing the
vowel .
Bake, [baked, ] Xbaken * ,
Fold, [ folded,] folden * [ 3 ]
Grave, [ graved , ] graven *
Hew, [ hewed, ] hewen , or hewn *
Lade, [ laded, 1 laden.
Load , [ loaded , ] loaden *
Mow, [mowed , ], mown
Owe, [ owed, or ought,] owen
Rive, [ rived, ] riyen .
Saw, [ ſawed ,] fawn *
Shape, [ ſhaped ,] ſhapen * .
Shave, [ ſhaved,] ſhaven *.
Shew , [ Thewed,] ſhewn *

“ Do not the Nile and the Niger make yearly in

undations in our days, as they have formerly done ?
and are not the countries fo 'overflown ſtill fituate bem
tween the tropicks ? " Bentley's Sermons.
“ Thus oft by mariners are ſhown
Earl Godwin's cattles overflown." . Swift.
Here the Participle of the Irregular Verb , to fly, is
confounded with that of the Regular Verb, to pow .
It ought to be in all'theſe places overflowed.
[ 3 ] “ While they be folden together' as 'thorns. "
Nahum i. 10.
G2
100 INTRODUCTION TO

or,
Show , ſhown .
[ ſhowed, ]
Sow , [ fowed ,] fown *
Straw ,-ew , or -ow , [ ſtrawed, &c . ] ftrown * .
Wąſh , ! [waſhed, ] waſhen * [ 4. ]
Wax , [waxed,] waxen *.
Wreath , [wreathed , ] wreathen .
Writhe, (writhed , ] writhen.

Some Verbs, which change i ſhort into a

or u , and i long into ou , have dropped the
termination en in the Participle.

i ſhort into a oru, 8.

Begin , began , begun.

Cling, clang, or clung, clung.
Drink , drank , drunk , or drunken .
flung
Fling, flung,
Ring, rang , or rung , rung
fhrank , or ſhrunk , ſhrunk .
Shrink,
Sing, fang , or fung, fung. 1. *Ý
Sink , fank , or funk , funk ..., ' 0
Sling, flang, or flung, flung. :)
Slink , flunk , Plunk

Spin , ſpan, or ſpun, ſpun .

Spring , ſprang, or ſprung, ſprung .

: [4] With unwalken handsa ? Mark vii . 2. 5.1

Sting,
Ifthy horku li wanın pon ,
Lul; XXV. 85,35734
 ENGLISH GRAMMAR . 101

Sting, ſtung , ( ftung .

Stink, ftank , or ftunk, ftunk .
1 String Castrol ſtrung .
ſtrung,
Swim , fwam , or ſwum ," ). TC fwum .
Swing , ſwung , ſwung
Wring, wrung, C! wrung

In many of the foregoing, the original

and analogical form of the Paſt Time in a ,
which diſtinguiſhed it from the Participle,
is grown quite obſolete.

oule
i long into 01 ,
Bind; bound , bound, or bounden .
Find , found , found . 5
Grind , ground , ground,
Wind, wound . wound.

That all theſe had originally the termi

nation en in the Participle, is plain from the
following conſideration . Drink and bind
ſtill retain it ; drunken , bounden ; from the
Saxon , druncen , bunden : and the reſt are
manifeſtly of the fameanalogy with theſe .
Begonnen, ſonken, and founden , are uſed by
Chaucer : and ſome others - of -them appear
G3 in
102 INTRODUCTION TO
in their proper ſhape in the Saxon ; ſcrune
fen, Spunnen, Sprungen, ſtungen, wunden. As
likewiſe in the German , which is only an.

other offspring of the Saxon : begynnen,

geklungen, getruncken, geſungen , geſuncken ,
geſpunnen, geſprungen , geſtuncken, geſchwum
men , geſchwungen.
The following feem to have loſt the en
of the Participle in the ſame manner.

Hang [ 5 ] , hung , .
Shoot, ſhot, ſhot.
Stick , ſtuck , ſtuck .
Come, came, come.
Run, ran, run.
Win , won, won .

Hangen , and Scoten, are the Saxon ori

gináls of the two firſt Participles ; the lat
ter of which is likewiſe ſtill in uſe in its

[5 ] This Verb , when Active, inay perhaps be moſt

properly uſed in the Regular form ; when Neuter, in
the Irregular. But in the Active ſenſe offurniſhing
room with draperies the Irregular form prevails . The
Vulgar Tranſlation of the Bible uſes only the Regular
fonn .
firſt 1
-

|
1

1
 ENGLISH GRAMMAR . 103

firſt form in one phraſe : a fhotten herring ,

Stuck ſeems to be a contraction from ſtucken,
as ſtruck now in uſe for ſtrucken . Chaucer
hath comen and wonnen : becommèn is even
"uſed by Lord Bacon [ 6 ]. And moſt of
them ftif ſublift intire in the German

gehangen, kommen, gerunnen , gewonnen.

To this third Claſs belong the Defective
Verbs , Be, been ; and Go, gone; 1. e. goen .

From this Diſtribution and account of

the Irregular Verbs, if it be juſt, it appears
that originally there was no exception from
the Rule, That the Participle Preterit, or
Paſſive, in Engliſh ends in d , t, or n. The
firſt form included all the Regular Verbs ;
and thoſe, which are become Irregular by
Contraction, ending in t. To the ſecond
properly belonged only thoſe which end in
ght, from the Saxon Irregulars in bte . To
- the third , thoſe from the Saxon Irregulars
in en ; which have ſtill, or had originally ,
the faine termination .
[ 6] Effay xxix.
G4 The
104. INTRODUCTION TO
The fame Rule affords a proper found
ation for a diviſion of all the Engliſh Verbs
into Threel Conjugations ; or Claſſes of
Verbs, diſtinguiſhed one from another by
a peculiar förmation, in fome principal part
of the Verbs belonging to each of which
Conjugations reſpectively the three different
Términations of the Participle might be the
Characteriftics . Such of the contracted
Verbs, as have their Participles now ending
in t , might perhaps be beſt reduced to the
firit Conjugation, to which they naturally
and originally belonged ; and they ſeem to
be of a very different analogy from thoſe in
ght . But as the Verbs of the firſt Conju
gation would ſo greatly exceed in number
thoſe of both the others, which together
make but about 117 [ 7 ] ; and as thoſe of
the third Conjugation -are lo various in their

[ 7 ] The whole number of Verbs in the Engliſh

language, Regular and Irregular, Simple and Com
pounded, taken together, is about 4300. See, in Du
Ward's Eflays on the Engliſh Language, the Cata
logue of Engliſh Verbs. The whole number of Irre
gular Verbs, the Defective included, is about 177. :
forter
* was is thedasonpæs, whichis the past t .

of the verb pesan .

twent is not sta fast time of geist is the

pasthime of the obsolete verb wend .
 ENGLISH GRAMMAR .. 105

form , and incapable of being reduced to

one plain rule ; it ſeems better in practice
to conſider the first in ed as the only Re.
gular form , and the others as deviations
from it ; after the example of the Saxon
and German Grammarians. 2.Ge

To the Irregular Verbs are to be added

the Defective ; which are not only for the
moſt part Irregular, but are alſo wanting in
ſome of their parts . ' They are in general
words of moſt frequent and vulgar uſe ; in
which Cuſtom is apt to get the better of
Analogy. Such are the Auxiliary Verbs ;
moſt of which are of this number. They
are in uſe only in ſome of their Times, and
Modes ; and ſome of them are a Compo
ſition of Times of ſeveral Defective Verbs

having the ſame Signification .

Preſent. Paft. Participle.
X
Am, was, been.
Can , could . ‫ )و زد‬3 ، ‫ماه‬
Go, wént, gone .
May, might,
Muft.
Duotit

Prema tots
106 INTRODUCTION TO

Quoth , quoth .
Shall, fhould .
Weet, wit, or wot ; wot.
Will, would.
Wis, wift wii - ed , urid,

There are not in Engliſh ſo many as a

Hundred Verbs, ( being only the chief part,

but not all , of the Irregulars of the Third
Claſs ,) which have a diſtinct and different
form for the Paſt Time Active and the
Participle Perfect or Paſſive. The general
bent and turn of the language is towards
the other form , which makes the Paſt Time
and the Participle the ſame. This general
inclination and tendency of the language
ſeems to have given occaſion to the intro
ducing of a very great Corruption : by
which the Form of the Paſt Time is
confounded with that of the Participle
in theſe Verbs , few in proportion , which
have them quite different from one ant
other. This confuſion prevails greatly in
common diſcourſe, and is too much au
thoriſed by the example of ſome of our
beſt
 He shall build a wondrous ark , ..
to save himself 8 houdheld from amidot
a world devote to uniunéal wrack ,
Par, d., 81.814 .
 ENGLISH GRAMMAR . 107

beſt Writers [ 8 ]. Thus it is ſaid , He begui,

for be began ; be run, for bè ran ; be drunk,

[8 ] “ He would have ſpoke.'

Milton, P. L. x .
4.5173
« Words interrvove with fighs found out their way .
P. L. i, 621.
** Thoſe kings and potentates who have firove."
Eiconoclatt. xvii ,
“ And to his faithful ſervant hath in place ::
Bore witneſs glorioufiy ." Samſon Ag, ver. 1752.00
“ And envious darkneſs , ere they could return,
Had ſtole them from me.” Comus, ver . 195
Here it is obſervable, that the Author's MS, and the
firſt Edition have it ſtolne.
" And in triumph had rode .” P. R. iii. 36 .
6. I have choſe
This perfect man ." P. R. i. 165 .
“ The fragrant brier was wove between .".
Dryden, Fables.
" I will ſcarce think you have ſwam in a Gondola . "
Shakeſpear, As you like it,
" Then finiſh what you have began ;
But fcribble fafter, if you can.
Dryden, Poems, Vol. II. p . 172,
" And now the years a numerous train bave ranı
: The blooming boy is ripen'd into man .”
Pope's Odyff. xi . 555.
" Which I had no ſooner drank, but I found a pimple
riſing in my forehead. " Addiſon , Tatler, Nº 131 .
for
 O
R
. T
N
108 I e TO
pl
an
k e ici t in
g
ed n
for dbe dr : th Pare be uſ i e.
e a e ſ t im n d u ch r
ſ t f
o t h P a T A
. m mo
y
e rang e r bur m
v
“ Had sp n . ” Att , Ser . I. 4 : « had ſpake
a e g a
h b — Clarendon , Contin. Hift. p. 40 .
& 120. • The men begun to embelliſh themſelves. ”
Addiſon, Spect, NO 437. +
“ Rapt into future times the bard begun."
Pope, Meffiah .
And without the neceſſity of rhyme :
A ſecond deluge learning thus o'er-run ,
And the Monks finiſh'd what the Goths begun.”
Eſſay on Criticiſin .
6 Repeats youverſes wrote on glaſſes." Prior.
* Mr. Miſión has wrote ." Addiſon , Preface to his
Travels. “ He could only command his voice, which
qvas broke with lighs and ſobbings, ſo far as to bid her
proceed ." Addiſon , Spect. Nº 164 .
6 No civil broils have ſince his death arcfe. ”
Dryden , on 0. Cromwell.
« Illuſtrious virtues, who by turns have roſe . " Prior,
** Had not aroje." Swift, Battle of Books : and Bo.
lingbroke, Letter to Wyndham , p. 233.
ne
Ju as if Partridge were not Swift.
dead.”
" This nimble operator will have ſtole it .”
Tale of a Tub , Sect . x.
“ Some Philoſophers have miſtook." Ibid . Sect. ix .
66 That Diodorus has not miſtook himſelf in his account
of the date of Phintia, we inay be as ſure as any hiſtory
can make us.” Bentley, Differt; on Phalaris, p.98.
frequently
+ Good unds, let thisend where it begun ;
Me U calm the duke of Norfolk,you your don .
Shakek: Mich . 2 .
i
 ENGLISH GRAMMAR. 109
frequently the Paſt Time inſtead of the Par
ticiple : as, I had wrote, it was wrote, for I
bad written , it was written ; I have drank ,
for I have drunk , bore, for borne ; chofe, for
choſen ; bid , for bidden , got, for gotten ; &cł
This abuſe has been long growing upon us,
and is continually making further incroach
ments ; as it may be obſerved in the exam
ple of thoſe Irregular Verbs of the Third
Claſs, which change i ſhort into a and u ;
as, Cling, clang, clung ; in which the
original and analogical form of the Paſt
Time in a is almoſt grown obfolete ; and ,
1
66 Why, all the ſouls that were, irere forfeit once :
And He, that might the 'vantage beſt have took,
Found out the remedy." Shakeſpear, Meaſ. for Meaſ.
" Silence
Was took ere ſhe was ware. Milton , Comus.
“ Into theſe common places look ,
'Which from great authors I have took " Prior, Alma.
“ A free Conftitution, when it has been look by the
iniquity of former adminiſtrations." Bolingbroke,
Patriot King , p. III .
Too strong to be look by his enemies .” Atterbury .
" Ev’n there he hould have fell.” Prior, Solomon.
“ Sure ſome diſaſter has befell,
Speak, Nurſe; I hope the Boy is well .” Gay, Fables .
the
110 INTRODUCTION TO

the u prevailing inftead of it , the Paſt Time

is now in moſt of them ' confounded with
the Participle. The Vulgar Tranſlation of
the Bible, which is the beſt ſtandard of our
language, is free from this corruption, ex
cept in a few inſtances ; as bid is uſed for
bidden ; beld, for bolden, frequently ; bid, for
bidden ; begot, for begotten , once or twice :
in which , and a few other like words, it may

perhaps be allowed as a Contraction . And

in ſome of theſe, Cuſtom has eſtabliſhed
it beyond recovery : in the reſt it ſeems
wholly inexcufable. The abſurdity of it
will be plainly perceived in the example
of fomeof theſe Verbs, which Cuſtom has
not yet ſo perverted . We ſhould be im
mediately ſhocked at I have knew , I bave
ſaw , I have gave, & c. but our ears are
grown familiar with I have wrote , I have
drank, I have bore, &c . which are altoges
ther as barbarous,

There are one or two ſmall Irregularities

to be noted, to which ſome Verbs are ſub
ject
1
 ENGLISH GRAMMAR . 110

ject in the formation of the Preſent Particia

ple . The Preſent Participle, is formed by
adding ing to the Verb : as, turn , turning
Verbs ending in e omit the e in the Preſent
Participle : as, love, loving . Verbs ending
with a ſingle conſonant preceded by a lin
gle Vowel, and , if of more than one Sylla
ble , having the accent on the laſt Syllable,
double the Conſonant in the Preſent Parti

ciple , as well as in every other part of the

Verb in which a Syllable is added : as, put,
putting, puttetb ; forget, forgetting , forget
teth ; abet, abetting, abetted [9].

A DVE RB,

DVERBS are added to Verbs, and to

A
Adjectives, to denote ſome modifica

[9 ] Some Verbs having the Accent on the laſt Sylla

ble but one, as, wor /bip, counſel, are repreſented in the
like manner, as doubling the laſt conſonant in the
formation of thoſe parts of the Verb, in which a Sylla
ble is added ; as worſhipping, counjelling. But this I
rather judge to be a fault in the ſpelling ; which nei
ther Annlogy nor Pronunciation juftitics.

tion
 112 INTRODUCTION TO
tion or circumſtance of an Action, or qua
lity : as , the manner, order ,-time, place ,
diſtance, motion, relation , quantity, quality,
compariſon, doubt, affirmation , negation ,
demonſtration, interrogation .
In Engliſh they admit of no Variation ;
except ſome few of them, which have the
degrees of Compariſon : as, [ 1 ] often ,

[ 1 ] The formation of Adverbs in general with the

Comparative and Superlative Terminations ſeems to
be improper ; at leaſt it is now become almoſt obſo
lete : as, “ Touching things which generally are re
ceived, we are hardlieft able to bring ſuch proof of
their certainty, as may fatisty gainlayers.” Hooker ,
B. v. 2 . “ Was the cafilier perſuaded ." Raleigh .
“ That he may the fronglier provide.” ' Hobbes Life
of Thucyd. “ The things bigblieft important to the
growing age ." Shafteſbury, Letter to Moleſworth .
“ The queſtion would not be, who loved himſelf, and
who not ; but, who loved and ſerved himſelf the
righteſt, and after the trueſt manner... Id. Wit and
Humour. It ought rather to be, moft hard , morers
eafily, more front, molt bighli, moft right, or rightly. 1
But theſe comparative Adverbs, howerer improper in
profė, are ſometiines allowable in Poetry.
“ Scepter and pow'r, Thy giving, I allume ;
And glaslier ſhall relign .” . Miltop, P.L. vi. 731 .
oftener,
3
5
3

G. Jou have shohen truer than prabus.

Roset.Joukmu takm it wiolin

How I meant fou should .. Hafrakenne
Yumf.ll.12

Seldonn noturns of sin a for .

Taylor , W ... Ch. 2. Sud.z.

& thanks to gan

that called me timelier than
my
pupore,hister ,
Thanop . Ant. & c .
oftener softenest are barbarousel
adjective of two
sílables is compart deBurely
adverb ought to be. More opon
& most often thd be used - or more

juguenllyf most frequently .

 ENGLISH GRAMMAR . 113

toftener, ofteneft ; " “ foon , ſooner, ſoon

eft ; " and thoſe Irregulars, derived from
Adjectives [ 2 ] in this reſpect likewiſe irre
gular ; “ well, better, beft ; " & c .
3 An Adverb is ſometimes joined to ano :
ther Adverb , to inodify or qualify its mean
ing ; as , “ very much ; much too little ;
not very prudently."

P R E POSITION.

REPOSITIONS, ſo called becauſe they

PRED
are commonly put before the words
to which they are applied , ſerve to connect
words with one another, and to ſhew the
relation between them .

One great Ufe of Prepoſitions in Engliſh

is to expreſs thoſe relations, which in ſome
languages are chiefly marked by Caſes, or
the different endings of the Noun .
Moſt Prepoſitions originally denore the
relation of Place, and have been thence
transferred to denote by fimilitude other
( 2 ) See above, p . 59.
H Felationt .
 114. INTRODUCTION TO

relations. Thus, out, in, through , under., by ,

to , from , of, & c. Of is much the fame

with from ; afk of me," that is, from me :

4. made of wood ;" “ Son of Philip ; " that
is, ſprung from him . " For , in its primary
ſenſe, is pro, loco: alterius, in the ſtead, or
place of another. The notion of Place is
very obvious in all the reſt ( 3 ).

[ 3] The Particle a before Participles, in the phraſes

a coming, a going, a walking, a ſhooting , &c ; and
before Nouns, as a -bed, a - board , a - lhore, a -foot,
& c ; ſeems to be a true and genuine Prepoſition , a
little diſguiſed by familiar ufe and quick pronunci
ation . Dr. Wallis fuppoſes. it to be the prepofition !
ato I rather think it is the P.repofition on ; the fenſo
of which anfwers better to the intention of thoſe ex
preſſions. At has relation chiefty to place : on has a .
more general relation , and may be applied to action ,
and many cother things, as well as place. “ I was on
coining , on going ," & c ;, that is , employed upon that
particular action & fo likewife thoſe other phraſes 1
above-mentioned, a -bed , & c . exactly anſwer to en . 1
bed, an board ; on ſhore , on: foot. Dr. Bentley plainly
ſuppoſed a to be the ſame with on ; as appears from
the following paffage : “ He 'would have a learned
Univerſity make Barbariſms a purpoſe. Differt. On
· Phalaris, P. 223 , X Palasethouse
Yt the same man here , in Propofitions

his ,
mahe
because a lady chance to do so .
 Ehm autom docet moriy ohango
sithe affections, which when they are sit
agoing lesome arent in vinen
Defae , R. Cruose , Voll
They said they mu an . hungry .
Shahsh Carios . Il

She was aftemmed a - hungped .

Mat.ir. 2

( 3) The particle a isnot now nied be

fou partiapled.
torbich thing skin Laie.bibler foil ]
into their boots, & afterwards set a sopa

sating in poto & jars - Addison , Italy.

Ar her setting forward toride at

hunting, her race asked me & c

, Hethafuo va.vn.
Tapdarkett
b.457
Ile minte ut my day sie to the say
which key wout dijest ro mertou
He fastuve, & ciated not whole night
ron Tobit X.7.

Austuna confefped that was torn 6 - heices

with his manifold desires - Benton , tect of
Allauch . 7.2.3.11

the auld authen les thought a male content ,

than drink the King's health when he wasnal acht
desery w Hurtator, 576 .
from that time to this brings still
Imilding , ilió nokopt pitty mdud , -
7 ti dro vý .20
- Aneh Imiting va queo mes
htwents, oft with the holy contractan
whit nu tuo intinse to untoon .

interja kemi

For David fell on sleep éxouyona

dets xii.36 . Key have laid Jeru
Falem on herpte . Perlen lxxix . 1. -

why runnet then this on head . Homil :

Jotting their best write

on work to translate the Greek dating
Authors into it . Guardian , 164 .
Theo then Lupine afriggio dureappon
st on work . Jouih , hurm firmie 17,16

Avestointihod trampos
Mancinin adlathartorderandorth

dumtonk among

in kurveat the ridis an

füld in the
aqson Lohresaríimátor 138
 ENGLISH GRAMMAR . 113

Prepoſitions are alſo prefixed to words

in ſuch a manner, as to coalefee with them ,
and to become a part of them . Prepofi
tions, ſtanding by themſelves in Conſtruc
tion , are pur before Nouns and Pronouns ;
and ſometimes after Verbs ; but in this
ſort of Compoſition they are chiefly pre
fixed to Verbs ; as , to outgo, to overcome, to

“ The depths on trembling fell. ” J. Hopkins,

Pf. lxxvii. 16. That is, as we now ſay in common
diſcourſe, “ they fell a trembling." And the Prepo
fition on has manifeſtly deviated into a in other in
ftances : thus the Saxon compounded Prepoſitions
engean , onmang, onbutan, are become in Engliſh, by
the rapidity of pronunciation, againlt, among , about ;
and what is in the Saxon Goſpel, “ Ic wylle gan på
fixoth ,” is in the Engliſh Tranſlation, “ I go a fiſhing :
John xxi. 3. Múch in the fame manner, John of
Nokes, and John of Stiles, by very frequent and fami.
liar uſe, became John a Nokes, and John a Stiles :
and one of the clock, or perhaps on the clock , is write
ten , one o'clock, but pronounced , one a clock. The
phraſes with a before a Participle are out of uſe in
the ſolemn ſtyle ; but ſtill prevail in familiar diſcourſe.
They are eſtablifhed by long uſage, and good autho
rity : arid there ſeemsto be no reaſon, why they ſhould
but utterly rejected.
H2
116 INTRODUCTION TO
undervalue. There are allo certain Partia
cles, which are thus employed in Compo
fition of words, yet cannot ftand by them
felves in Conſtruction : as , a, bé, con , mis,

&c ; in abide, bedeck, conjoin , miſtake,& cé

theſe are called Inſeparable Prepoſitions.'t.

CONJUNCTION .

T HE CONJUNCTION connects or joins 1

together Sentences ; fo as, out of two,
to make one Sentence.
Thus, “ You, and I, and Peter, rode to
London ," is one Sentence, made up of theſe
three by the Conjunction and cwice em
ployed ; " You rode to London ;. I rode to
London ; Peter rode to London. ” Again,
66 You and I rode to London , but Peter
itaid at home, is one Sentence made up
of three by the Conjunctions and and but :
both of which equally connect the Sentences,
but the fatter expreſſes an Oppoſition in
the Senſe . The firſt is therefore called a
Con
1

1
 ENGLISH GRAMMA R. 117

Conjunction Copulative ; the other a Con

junction Disjunctive, love me
- The uſe of copulative Conjunctions is
to connect, or to continue the Sentence,
by expreſſing an addition, ands a ſuppe
fition , or condition, ifa asjata cauſe, be
caufe [ 4 ], then ; a motive, that ; an infe
rence, therefore ; &c.
The uſe of Disjunctives is to connect
and to continue the Sentence ; but withal

to expreſs Oppoſition of meaning in dif

ferent degrees : as, or , but, tbar , although,
unleſs, & c.

INTERJECTION.
on gili ve 302.13

I NTERJECTIONS, fo called, becauſe they

are thrown in between the parts of a

[4] The Conjunction becauſe, uſed to expreſs the mo

tive or end, is either improper or obſolete : as, « The
multitude rebuked them , becauſe they ſhould hold
their peace.” Matta XX . 31. It is the caſe of fome,
to contrive falfe periods of buſineſs , becauſe they may
fęem men of diſpatch." Bacon, Efray XXV . We ſhould
now make uſe of that.
H 3 fentence
118 INTRODUCTION TO

fentence without making any other alter

1
ation in it, are a kind of Natural Sounds ,
1
to expreſs the affection of the Speaker.
The different Paſſions have, for the moſt
part, different Interjections to expreſs them. .
The Interjection 0, placed before a Sub
ftantive, expreſſes more ſtrongly an addreſs 1
made to that perſon or thing ; as it marks
1
in Latin what is called the Vocative Caſe,
1

S E N T E N C E S,

ŞENTENCE is an aſſemblage of
words, expreſſed in proper form , and
ranged in proper order, and concurring to
make a complete fenfe.
The Conſtruction of Sentences depends
principally upon the Concord or Agree
ment, and the Regimen or Government, of
Words,
One word is ſaid to agree with another,
when it is required to be in like caſe, num
ber, gender, or perſon.
One
 ENGLISH GRAMMAR . 119

One word is ſaid to govern another, when

it cauſeth the other to be in ſome. Cafe , or
Mode..,

Sentences are either Simple , or Com

pounded .
A Simple Sentence hath in it but one
Subject, and one Finite Verb ; that is, a
Verb in the Indicative, Imperative, or Sub
junctive Mode.
A Phraſe is two or more words.rightly
put together , in order to make a part of a
Sentence ; and ſometimes making a whole
Sentence,
í
The moſt common PHRASES, uſed in
fimple Sentences, are the following.
i ft Phraſe : The Subſtantive before a

Verb Active, Palive, or Neuter ; when it

is ſaid , what thing is, does, or is done : as,
“ I am ;"" “ “ Thou
Thou writeit » T homas is
T

loved : ” where 1, Thou , Thomas, are the

Nominative ( 5) Caſes ; and anſwer to the

[ 5 ] “ He, ihon ye pretend reigns in heaven, is fo

far from protecting the miſerable fons of men, that he
H4 queftion
1 20 INTRODUCTION TO

queſtion who, or what? as, se Whois loved ?.

Thomas.” And the Verb agrees with the
Nominative Cafe in Numberand Perſon [ 6 ];
VTTTTTTT
perpetually delights to blaſt the ſweeteſt flowrets in the
Garden of Hopeias Adventurer, No 76. It ought to
not
betuho, the Nominative Cafe to reigns; not abom , as
if it were the Objective Cafe governed by pretendit
" If you were here, you would find three or fourini:
the parlour after dinner, whom you would ſay paſſed
their time agreeably,” Locke, Letter to Molyneax..
6. Scotland and Thee did each in other live.”
Last Dryden , Poems, Vol. II, p : 220.
" TVe areal
abon e ; here's none , but Thee and 1. " dod
oard
Shakeſpear, 2 Hen. VI.
It ought in both places to be Thou ; the Nominative
Caſe to the Verb exprefled or underſtood .
[6] “ But Thor, falſe Arcite, never Jhall obtain
Thy bad pretence ." was to Dryden, Fables.
it ought to be, ſbalt. The miſtake ſeems to arife !
from the confounding of Thou and You , as equivalent .
in every reſpect ; whereas one is Singular, the other
Plural. See above , p . 67. in que
" Nor thou , that flings me floundring from thyback." ,
worla 1, Parnell, Battle of Frogs and Mice, 123.
And wherefoe'er thou cafts thy view ."..
5: Cowley, on the Death of Hervey .
“ There's ( there are] tuo or three of us have ſeen
Strange fights.” Shakeſpear , Jul . Cæſ.
as,
 1

Ronny

the muchanclign which than has brought from

are all too dear form , lie they whom they
hand,- & he undone by them Jhakeh
Ant. & c .

pohy w cortt sy nebus proud ? lulus. X.9 .

Fue in tara forhis love for forhisfortune,

honor for his retor, & teksthis mmbition
Shaherp . J. Cas.
 ENGLISH GRAMMAR . 121

as, thou being the Second Perſon Singular,

the Verb writeft is fo too ,
2d Phraſe : The Subſtantive after a Verb
Neuter or Paſive ; when it is ſaid, that ſuch
a thing is, or is made, or thought, or called,
ſuch another ibing ; or , when the Subſtan
tive after the Verb is ſpoken of the fame
thing or perſon with the Subſtantive before

Great pains has (have ] been taken."

Pope, P. S. to the Odyfiey.
« I have conſidered, what lave ( hath ] been ſaid on
both ſides in this controverſy ." Tillotfon, Vol. I.
Serm . 27 .
"366 One would think, there was more Sophifts than
one had a finger in this Volume of Letters. " Bentley,
Differt. on Socrates's Epiſtles, Sect, IX.
“ The number of the names together were about an
hundred and twenty ," Acts i. 15. See alſo Job
xiv . 5.
66. And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldeit
ſon Eſau, which were with her in the houſe, and put
them upon Jacob her youngeft fon." Gen. xxvii . 15.
* If the blood of bulls and of goats, and the aſhes of
an heifer, ſprinkling the unclean , fanctifieth to the
purifying of the fleſh .” Heb . ix. 13. See alſo Exod. ix .
8, 9 ; io. « In one hour ſo great riches is come to
nought." Rev. xvii, 17 .

There is no richia above asound the

, na
above the fiz ofis heart.
Lectio
122 INTRODUCTION TO

the Verb : as , “ A calf becomes an ox ; "

6. Plautus is accounted a Poet ; " “ I am
He.” Here the latter Subſtantive is in the
Nominative Cafe, as well as the former ,
and the Verb is ſaid to govern the Nomina
tive Cafe : or, the latter Subſtantive may be
ſaid to agree in Caſe with the former.
3d Phraſe : The Adjective after a Verb
Neuter or Paſſive, in like manner : as,
“ Life is bort, and Art is long ," “ Exer
cife is eſteemed wboleſome.”
4th Phrafe : The Subſtantive after a
Verb Active, or Tranſitive : as when one
thing is ſaid to act upon , or do ſomething
to another : as, “ to open a door ; " " to
build a houſe : ” “ Alexander conquered
the Perſians . " Here the thing acted upon
is in the Objective [ 7 ] Caſe : as it appears
( 7 ) “ For who love I fo much ? ”
Shakeſpear, Merch . of Venice.
• Who c'er I woo, myſelf would be his wife.”
Id. Twelfth Nigfit.
“ Who ever the King favours,
The Cardinal will find employment for,
And far enough from court.", jd. Hen . VIII.
plainly
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plainly when it is expreffed by the Pro

noun , which has a proper termination for
that Cafe ; “ Alexander conquered them ; "
and the Verb is ſaid to govern the Ob
jective Caſe .
5th Phraſe : A Verb following another
Verb ; as, “ Boys love to play : " where the
latter Verb is in the Infinitive Mode.
6th Phraſe : When one thing is faid to
belong to another ; as , “ Milton's poems :"
where the thing to which the other belongs
is placed firſt, and is in the Poſſeſſive Caſe ;
or elſe laft, with the Prepoſition of before
it : as , " the poems of Milton . "

“ Tell who loves who ; what favours ſome partake,

And who is jilted for another's ſake, "
Dryden, Juvenal, Sat. vi .
“ Thoſe, who he thought true to his party ." Claren
don , Hift. Vol.I. p.667, 8vo. 4 Who ſhould I meet
the other night, but my old friend ?" Spect. N° 32 .
" Who ſhould I ſee in the lid of it but the Doctor ? "
Addiſon, Spect. N ° 57 . “ Laying the fufpicion
upon ſomebody, I know not who, in the country."
Swift, Apology prefixed to Tale of a Tub . In all
theſe places it ought to be wbom . #
124 INTRODUCTION TO !

7th Phraſe : When another Subftantive

is added to expreſs and explain the former
more fully ; as, “ Paul the Apoſtle ;" " King
George ;" wherethey are both in the fame
cafe ; and the latter is ſaid to be put in Ap .
poſition to the former. Por ,
8th Phraſe : When the quality of the Sub
ftantive is expreſſed by adding an Adjective
to it : asso a

Participles have the nature of Adjectives ;

as, " a learned man ; " “ a loving father.
gth Phrafe : An Adjective with a Verb
in the Infinitive Mode following it ; as,
worthy to die ; ” . “ fit to be truited .”
loth Phraſe : When a circumſtance is

added to a Verb, or to an Adjective, by an

Adverb : as, “ You read well , " " he is

very prudent."
? 11th Phrafe : When a circumſtance is
added to a Verb, or ' an Adjective, by a Sub
ſtancive with a Prepoſition before it : ' as,
it . I write for you ; »" « he reads with care;

“ ſtudious of praiſe ;" ... ready for mil

chief."
12th
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9 12th Phraſe : When the ſame Quality in

different Subjects is compared the Ad
jective in the Poſitive having after it the
Conjunction as, in the Comparative the
Conjunction than , and in the Superlative
the Prepoſition of : as, " white as ſnow ;"
wiſer than I ;"! " greateſt of all."

The PRINCIPAL Parts of a Simple Sen

tence are the Agent, the Attribute, and
the Object. The Agent is the thing chiefly
{ poken of ; the Attribute is the thing or
action, affirmed or denied of it ; and the
Object is the thing affected by ſuch action .
In Engliſh the Nominative Caſe, denot
ting the Agent, uſually goes before the
„Verb, or Attribution ; and the Objective
Caſe, denoting the Object, follows theVerb
Active ; and it is the order, that determines
cafes in Nouns : as, “ Alexander con
the ca
quered the Perſians, ” But the Pronoun ,
1 having a proper form for each of thoſe caſes,
ſometimes, when it is in the Objective Caſe,
is placed before the Verb ; and, when it is
in
3
 126 INTRODUCTION TO

in the Nominative Cafe, follows the Object

and Verb : as, “ Whom ye ignorantly
worſhip , bim declare I unto you.” And
the Nominative Caſe is fometimes placed
after a Verb Neuter : as, “ Upon thy right
hand did ftand the Queen :" " On a ſudden
appeared the King." And always, when the
Verb is accompanied with the Adverb
there : as, “ there was a man ." The rea
fon of it is plain : the Neuter Verb not ad
mitting of an Objective Caſe after it, no
ambiguity of Cafe can ariſe from ſuch a pofi
tion of the Noun : and where no inconveni.
ence attends it, variety itſelf is pleaſing [8 ].

[ 8 ] It muſt then be meant of his ſins who makes,

not of his who becomes, the convert.” Atterbury, Sere
mons, I. 2 . 1
“ In him who is, and him who finds, a friend."
Pope, Eſſay on Man .
< Eye hath not feen, nor ear heard, neither have en
tered into the heart of man, the things, which God
hath prepared for them that love hiin." 1 Cor. ii . 9 .
There ſeems to be an impropriety in theſe ſentences ,
in which the ſame Noun ſerves in a double capacity,
perforining at the ſame time the offices both of the
Nominative and Objective cafe.
4 Wbo,
Whatever i sovethmaytay ,thereare
to cases toneundri English, fthero
xHerefort no imefarofitiedot
 relatie
+ the same always hand next to
ihanlacedent

tibiplaceat

* "Whomsoever ibpleaseth you to

affroint " whomsoever you like
te afferih
 ENGLISH GRAMMAR . 127

Wbo, wbich, wbat, and the Relative that,

though in the Objective Cale, are always.
placed before the Verb ; as sare alſo their
Compounds, whoever, whoſoever , & c : as ,
“ He whom you feek .” “ This is what,
or the thing which , or that you want.
ç Whomſoever you pleaſe to appoint.”
36

When the Verb is Pallive, the Agent:

and Object change places in the Sentence ;
and the thing acted upon is in the Nomina
tive Caſe, and the Agent is accompanied
with a Prepoſition : as, “ The Perfians were
conquered by Alexander .” , icbariki

The Action expreſſed by a Neuter Verb

being confined within the Agent, ſuch Verb
cannot admit of an Objective Caſe after it ,
denoting a perſon or thing as the Object of
action . Whenever a Noun is immediately

annexed to a preceding Neuter: Verb, it

either expreffes the ſame notion with the
Verb ; as , “ to dream a dream ; to live a
virtuous life :" or. denotes only, the circum
ſtance
 128 INTRODUCTION TO

ſtance of the action, a Prepoſition being un

derſtood ; as, “ to ſleep all night,” that is,
through all the night ; “ to walk a mile, "
that is , through the ſpace of a mile.
For the ſame reaſon , a Neuter Verb cans

not become a Paſſive.In a Neuter Verb

the Agent and Object are the ſame, and
cannot be ſeparated even in imagination ;
as in the examples, to ſleep, to walk : but
when the Verb is Paſſive, one thing is acted
upon by another, really , or by ſuppoſition ,
different from it [ 9 ] .

[ 9] That ſome Neuter Verbs take a Paſſive Forin ,

but without a Paffive Signification , has been obſerved
above ; ſee p. 83. Here I ſpeak of their becoming
both in Form and Signification Pasſive : and ſhall en
deavour further to illuſtrate the rule by example. To
split, like many other Engliſh Verbs, hath both an Ac
tive and a Neuter fignification : according to the
former we ſay , “ the force of gun -powder ſplit the
rock ;" according to the latter, " the fhip ſplit upon
the rock : ” and converting the Verb Active into a
Paſſive, we may ſay, “ the rock was split by the force
of gun- powder ;" or " the ship was ſplit upon the
rock ." But we cannot ſay with any propriety , turn
ing the Verb Neuter into a Pallive by inverſion of the
A Noun
?
"Ker mu wsitifmen ,whoringus
dooram mantle hitvn Mandingpond.

Shakap .. Mer. Ven . 1.4.

Rue me die Enthians, that tmn ordita

Hi ulatuin of nariness- Matej, Hurt.,lin

in J. Browne
xxlla
1
Shree use a onarm of Hea tret efences ,

2 " Duct nil. Sedicted ,

There are a lot of gains That hath in

it no mijustie himputay ve talted .

B.Jor. Taylor, Holy Living , Ch.wels

 ENGLISH GRAMMAR , 129

A Noun of Multitude [ 1 ], or fignifying

many, may have the Verb and Pronoun

ſentence, “ the rock ruas Split upon by the ſhip;" as in

the pallage following: “ What ſucceſs theſe labours
of mine have had , Fle knows beit, for whoſe glory
they were deſigned. It will be one fure and comfort
able ſign to me, that they have had fome; if it ſhall
appear, that the words I have ſpoken to you to -day
are not in vain : if they ſhall prevail with you in any
meafure to avoid thoſe rocks, which are uſuallý Split
upon in Elections, where multitudes of different in
clinations, capacities, and judgements, are intereſted .”
Atterbury, Sermons, IV. 12 ,
[ 1.] “ And reſtores to his iſland that tranquillity
and repoſe, to which they had been ſtrangers during
his abſence.” Pope, Differtation prefixed to the
Odyſſey. Iſand is not a Noun of Multitude : it ought
to be, his people ; or, it had been a ſtranger . " What
reaſon bave the Church of Rome to talk of modeſty in
this caſe ? " Tillotſon , Serm . I. 49 . * There is in
deed no Conftitution ſo tame and careleſs of their own
defence, where any perſon dares to give the leaſt fign
or intimation of being a traytor in his heart. ” Ad
dison, Freeholder , Nº 52. “ All the virtues of man
kind are to be counted upon a few fingers, but his fol
lies and vices are innumerable . " Swift, Preface to
Tale of a Tub . Is not mankind in this place & Noun
of Multitude, and ſuch as requires the Pronoun re
ferring to it to be in the Plural Number, their ?
I Agreeing
130 INTRODUCTION TO

agreeing with it either in the Singular or

Plural Number ; yet not without regard
to the import of the word , as conveying
unity or plurality of idea : as , “ My peo
ple is fooliſh ; they have not known me ."
Jer. iv. 22 . “ The aſſembly of the wicked
bave incloſed me.” Pſal. xxii . 16. perhaps
more properly than, “ bath inclofed me . "
“ The aſſembly was very numerous : " much
more properly than , “ were yery nume
rous. ”
Two or more Nouns in the Singular
Number, joined together by one or more
Copulative Conjunctions [ 2 ], have Verbs ,
Nouns , and Pronouns, agreeing with them
in the Plural Number : as , “ Socrates and
Plato were wife ; they were the moſt eminent

[ 2 ] The Conjunction Disjunctive hath a contrary

effect ; and, as the Verb, Noun, or Pronoun , is re
ferred to the preceding terms taken ſeparately, ir
muſt be in the Singular Number. The following
Sentence is faulty in this reſpect: “ A man may ſee
a metaphor, or an allegory, in a picture, as well as
read them [it ] in a deſcription ." Addiſon, Dial . I. on
Medals .
Philole

4
 Comment on These pair of second
Canses .. hirt. Brown , Rel. Med .

Ilg .
There me alittle of curinhas

Tir Mrawn - RM, I.21 .

1
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Philoſophers of Greece ." But fometimes,

after an enumeration of particulars thus
connected, the Verb follows in the Singular
Number ; and is underſtood as applied to
each of the preceding terms : as, - " The
glorious Inhabitants of thoſe ſacred palaces,
where nothing but light and bleſſed immor
tality, no ſhadow of matter for tears, dif
contentments, griefs, and uncomfortable
paſſions to work upon ; but all joy , tran
$
quillity, and peace , even for ever and ever
doth dwell.” Hooker, B. i . 4 . " Sand, and
Salt, and a maſs of iron , is eaſier to bear,
than a man without underſtanding ." Ec
clus xxii. 15 [3 ].
If the Singulars ſo joined together are
of ſeveral Perſons, in making the Plural
[ 3 ] “ And ſo was alſo James and John the fons of
Zebedee , which were partners with Simon .” Luke v .
io . Here the two Nouns are not only joined toge
ther by the Conjunction Copulative, but are more
over cloſely connected in ſenſe by the part of the ſen
ténce immediately following, in which the correſpon
dent Nouns and Verbs are Plural : the Verb therefore
preceding in the Singular Number ſeems highly im
proper.
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Pronoun agree with them in Perſon, the

ſecond Perſon takes place of the third , and
the firſt of both : “ He and You and I won

it at the hazard of our lives : You and He

ſhared it between you ."
The Neuter Pronoun , it is ſometimes

employed to expreſs, 1. the ſubject of any

diſcourſe, or inquiry : 2. the itate or con
dition of any thing or perſon : 3. the thing,
whatever it be, that is the cauſe of any
effect or event ; or any perſon conſidered
merely as a Cauſe, without regard to pro
per Perſonality. Examples :

1. “ ' Twas at the royal feaſt for Perfia won

By Philip's godlike ſon.” Dryden .
“ It happen'd on a ſummer's holiday,
That to the greenwood fhade he took his
way.” Ibid .
" Who is it in the preſs that calls on me ? "
Shakeſpear, Jul . Cæſ.
2. “ H. How is it with you , Lady ?
Q. Alas ! how is it with you ?"
Shakeſpear, Hainlet.
3. “ You heard her fay herfelf , it was not I.
' Twas I that kill'd her.” Shakeſpear, Othello.
" It
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“ It rains ; it ſhines ; it thunders.” From

which laft examples it plainly appears , that
there is no ſuch thing in Engliſh, nor in
deed in any language, as a ſort of Verbs,
which are really Imperſonal, The Agent
or Perſon in Engliſh is expreſſed by the
Neuter Pronoun ; in ſome other languages
it is omitted , but underſtood [ 4 ].
The Neuter Pronoun it is ſometimes

omitted , and underſtood : thus we ſay, “ as

appears ; as follows ;” for , " as it appears ;
as it follows."

The Verb to be has always a Nomina

tive Caſe after it ; as , “ It was I, and not
He, that did it :" unleſs it be in the Infini
tive Mode ; " though you took it to be
Him [ 5 ]. ”

[ 4] Examples of iinpropriety in the uſe of the

Neuter Pronoun, ſee below, p. 153. note 2.
[ 5] “ Whom do men ſay, that I am ?-But whom
fay ye, that I am ?” Matt. xvi . 13. 15. So likewiſe
Mark viii . 27. 29. Luke ix. 18. 20 . " Whom think
ye, that I am ? ” Acts xiii . 25. It ought in all theſe
places to be who ; which is not governed by the Verb
Jay or think, but by the Verb am : or agrees in Cafe
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The Adverbs, when , while, after, & c .

being left out, the Phraſe is formed with
the Participle, independent on the reſt of
the Sentence : as , “ The doors being fhut,
Jeſus ſtood in the midft," This is called
the Caſe Abſolute . And the Caſe is in
Engliſh always the Nominative : as,
« God from the mount of Sinai, whoſe grey top
Shall tremble, He deſcending [6 ], will himſelf, 1
with the Pronoun ). If the Verb were in the Infini.
tive Mode, it would require the Objective Caſe of the
Relative, agreeing with the Pronoun me : " Whom
thinkye , or do ye think, me to be?"
“ To that, which once was thee ." Prior,
It ought to be, which was thou ; or, which thou wafi.
<< It is not me you are in love with .” Spect. Nº 290.
The Prepoſition with ſhould govern the Relative
whom underſtood, not the Antecedent me ; which ought
to be l. “ It is not I, with whom you are in love : ” or ,
" It is not with me, that you are in love . "
“ Art thou proud yet ?
Ay, that I am not thee . " Shakeſpear, Timon ,
“ Time was, when none would cry, that oafwasme :
But now you ſtrive about your Pedigree.".'
Dryden, Prologue.
“ Impoſſible ! it can't be me." Swift.
[ 6] On which place ſays Dr. Bentley, “ The Cons
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In thunder, lightning, and loud trumpet's found ,
Ordain them laws." Milton , P. L. xii , 227 .

text demands that it be , -- Him defcending, Illo de

ſcendente . ” But him is not the Ablative Caſe, for the
Engliſh knows no ſuch Caſe ; nor does him without
a Prepoſition on any occafion anſwer to the Latin Ab
lative illo . I might with better reaſon contend , that
it ought to be “ his deſcending, " becauſe it is in
Greek avle xalalarvovic , in the Genitive ; and it
would be as good Grammar, and as proper Engliſh.
This comes of forcing the Engliſh under the rules of
a foreign Language, with which it has little concern :
and this ugly and deformed fault, to uſe his own ex
preſſion , Bentley has endeavoured to impoſe upon
Milton in ſeveral places : fee P. L. vii . 15. ix. 829,
883, 1147. X. 269, 1001. On the other hand , where
Milton has been really guilty of this fault, he, very .
inconſiſtently with himſelf, corrects him, and ſets him
right. His Latin Grammar Rules were happily out
of his head , and, by a kind of vernacular inſtinct, ( 1o, I
1 imagine, he would call it, ) he perceived that his Au
thor was wrong .
“ For only in deſtroying I find eaſe
To my relentleſs thoughts; and, bim deſtroyed,
Or won to what may work his utter loſs,
For whom all this was made, all this will ſoon,
Follow , as to him link'd in weal or woe ."
P. L. ix . 129 .
It ought to be, " he deſtroy'd ,” that is, " he being
deſtroy'd .” Bentley corrects it, “ and man deſtroy'd .”
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Tó before a Verb is the ſign of the Infini

tive Mode : but there are ſome Verbs,which
have commonly other Verbs following them
in the Infinitive Mode without the ſign to :
as, bid, dare, need, make, ſee, hear, feel; as
alſo let, and ſometimes have, not uſed as
Auxiliaries : and perhaps a few others :
as , “ I bade him do it : you dare not do
it ; I ſaw him [ 7 ] do it ; I heard him ſay
it [ 8 ].”

Archbiſhop Tillotſon has fallen into the fame mif

take : “ Solomon was of this mind ; and I inake no.
doubt, but he made as wiſe and true Proverbs as any
body has done fince : Him only excepted, who was a
much greater and wifer man than Solomon .”. Serm . I.
53.
[ 7 ] “ To ſee ſo many to make ſo little conſcience of
ſo great a ſin.” Tillotſon , Serin. I. 22 . " It cannot
but be a delightful ſpectacle to God and Angels to :
ſee a young perſon , beſieged by powerful temptations
on either ſide, to acquit himſelf gloriouſly , and reſo
lutely to hold out againſt the most violent aſſaults ; to
behold one in the prime and flower of his age, that is
courted by pleaſures and honours , by the devil and
all the betwitching vanities of the world, to reject all
theſe, and to cleave itedfaitly unto God ." Ib. Serm . 57.
fa the note topi.80.

Awas kaflet uf from the car ih, Umade

from the fut
Jaud '
Jan , VUL
All the congregation badi Moni
ains with Stoms . Neat .xir , in .
Adam content you shaltun
faent me shay
hakup , Jam of thethraw .
lauw minuriling here, tou shall now
The headow thibalmy hateforlede me thou :

won :
HangMer of Anhum , when sse,
be Cooned from this wond , on esc
Luke, V , 16 ,
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The Infinitive Mode is often made Ab

ſolute, or uſed independently of the reſt of
the Sentence ; ſupplying the Place of the
Conjunction that with the Subjunctive
Mode : as , " to "confeſs the truth , I was in
fault ;" “ to begin with the firſt ;" “ to pro
ceed ;" “ to conclude : " that is , “ that I may
confeſs; & c . ”

The impropriety of the Phraſes diſtinguiſhed by Italic

Characters is evident. See Matt. xv. 31 .
[8] " What , know you not,
That, being mechanical , you ought not walk,
Upon a labouring day, without the ſign
Of your profeflion ?" Shakeſpear, Jul. Cæf.
Both Grammar and Cuſtom 'require , “ ought not to
walk .”. Ought is not one of the Auxiliary Verbs ,
though often reckoned among them : that it cannot be
ſuch , is plain from this confideration ; that, if we
conſúlt cuſtom and our ear, it does not admit of ant
other Verb immediately following it, without the
Prepoſition to.
“. To wiſh himn wreſtle with affection .”
Shakeſpear, Much ado.
66 Nor with leſs dread the loud
Etherial trumpet from on high 'gan blow .”
Milton , P. L. vi, 60,
" Theſe phraſes are poetical, and by no means allow
able in profe.
Ihre
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The Infinitive Mode has much of the

nature of a Subſtantive ; expreſſing the

A & tion itſelf, which the Verb ſignifies ; as
the Participle has the nature of an Adjec
tive. Thus the Infinitive Mode does the
office of a Subſtantive in different Caſes ;
in the Nominative : as , “ to play is plea
ſant :" in the Objective ; as, “ boys love to
play.” In Greek it admits of the Article
through all its caſes, with the Prepoſition in
the Oblique caſes : in Engliſh the Article
is not wanted , but the Prepoſition may be
uſed : “ For 'to will is preſent with me ;
but to perform that which is good I find
not [9 ] ." “ All their works they do for to
be ſeen of men [ 1 ].” But the uſe of the Pre

[9 ] Το γαρ θελειν παρακείαι μου, το δε κατεργαζεσθαι το

Xahor By, súgrouw . Rom . vii, 18 .
[ 1 ] Ilgos to JeaOnvoi toss av pw Toto Matt. xxiii. 5:
The following fentences ſeem defective either in the
conſtruction, or the order of the words : “ Why do
ye that, which is not lawful to do on the fabbath days ?
The Thew bread, which is not lawful to eat, buç
for the prieſts alorie. " Luke vi. 2. 4. The Con
ſtruction may be rectified by fupplying it; « which
poſition ,
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poſition, in this and the like phraſes, is

now become obſolete.

“ For not to have been dip'd in Lethe's lake

Could ſave the Son of Thetis from to die ."
7 Spenſer,

Perhaps therefore the Infinitive, and the

Participle , might be more properly called
the Subſtantive Mode, and the Adjective
Mode [ 2 ]

The Participle with a Prepoſition before

it, and ftill retaining its Government, an

it is not lawful to do ; which it is not lawful to eat :"

66
or the order of the words in this manner ; to do
which, to eat which, is not lawful;" where the Infini
tive to do, to eat, does the office of the Nominative
Caſe, and the Relative which is in the Objective Cafe .
“ Here you may ſee, that viſions are to dread .”
Dryden, Fables.
!! I am not like other men, to envy the talents I can +
not reach , " Tale of a Tub, Preface. “ . Gramma
rians have denied, or at least doubted, them to be ge
nuine." Congreve's Preface to Homer's Hymn to
Venus. “ That all our doings may be ordered by
thy governance, to do always that is righteous in thy
ſight." Liturgy. The , Infinitive in theſe places
ſeems to be improperly uſed .
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ſwers to what is called in Latin the Gerund :

as , “ Happineſs is to be attained , by avoid
ing evil, and by doing good ; by ſeeking
peace, and by purſuing it. ”
The Participle, with an Article before it,
and the Prepoſition of after it, becomes a
Subſtantive , expreſſing the action itſelf
which the Verb fignifies [ 3 ] : as , “ Theſe
[ 3 ] This rule ariſes from the nature and idiom of
our Language ; and from as plain a principle, as any
on which it is founded : namely, that a word which
has the Article before it, and the Pofleflive Prepo
fition of after it, muſt be a Noun ; and if a Noun, it
ought to follow the Con itruction of a Noun, and not
to have the Regimen of a Verb . It is the Participial
Termination of this fort of words that is apt to de
ceive us , and make us treat them , as if they were of an
ampbibious ſpecies, partly Nouns, and partly Verbs.
I believe , there are hardly any of our writers, who have
not fallen into this inaccuracy. That it is ſuch , will
perhaps more clearly appear, if we examine and re
folve one or two examples in this kind. +
“ God, who didſt teach the hearts of thy faithful
people, by the ſending to then the light of thy Holy
Spiritim " Collect, Whit- funday. Sending is in this
place a Noun ; for it is accompanied with the Ar
ticle : nevertheleſs it is alſo a Tranſitive Verb, for it
governs the Noun light in the Objective Cafe : but
tre
 * And oftenkinią causing Jrfault
Pot make the fault thuword by the secure
Aspatcheqsd upona little bicach ,
Discredit morviw hiding of the fault se
Hatsp : H.john
In the first instance , the article might
he put before he participle without hurt .
ing the measure :

wakefunkenesdh'unewing fa faat ,
* 4oodwriters will avoid this
Ungfrin ,which isnow obsolete ,
Jadot what we far preferable

"og observing úhrik " crust a

word which is purely a noun

by theobsevana of whiih ."

Hanolye of God's purpose , in destroying

of the wicked , vustaining the sprino.
Psalm 73. Tube
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are the Rules of Grammar,"by the obſerving

of which you may avoid miſtakes." Or it

this is inconſiſtent; let it be either the one or the

other, and abide by its proper Conſtruction. That
theſe Participial Words are ſometimes real Nouns is
undeniable ; for they hare a Plural Number as ſuch :
as, " the outgoings of the morning .” The Sending is
the fame with the Mifon ; which neceffarily requires
the Prepoſition of after it, to mark the relation be
tween it and the light; the miffion of the light ; and fo ;
the ſending of the light. The phraſe would be proper
either way ; by keeping to the Conſtruction of the
Noun , by the fending of the light; or of the Participle,
or Gerund, by ſending the ligyt.
Again : - “ Sent to prepare the way of thy Son our
Saviour, by preaching of Repentance:- " Collect, St.
John Baptiſt. Here the Participle, or Gerund, hath
as improperly the Prepoſition of after it ; and fo is
deprived of its Verbal Regionen , by which , as a Tran
ſitive, it would govern the Noun Ripentance in the
Objective Caſe. Befides, the phraſe is rendered ob
ſoure and ambiguous: for the obvious meaning of it
in its preſent form is, “ by preaching concerning
Repentance, or on that Subject ;" whereas the fenfe
intended is, “ by publiſhing the Covenant of Re
pentance, and declaring Repentance to be a condi.
tion of acceptance with God ." The Phraſe would
have been perfectly right, and determinate to this
ſenſe, either way ; by the Noun , by the preaching of
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may be expreſſed by the Participle, or Ge

rund , “ by obſerving which :” not, by
obſerving of which ; ” nor, “ by the obſerving
which :" for either of thoſe two Phraſes
would be a confounding of two diſtinct
forms.
I will add another example, and that of
the beſt authority : “ The middle ſtation
of life ſeems to be the moſt advantageouſly
ſituated for the gaining of wiſdom . Poverty
turns our thoughts too much upon the ſup
plying of our wants, and riches upon enjoying
our fuperfuities .” Addiſon , Spect. N ° 464.
The Participle is often made Abſolute, in
the ſame manner, and to the ſame ſenſe, as
the Infinitive Mode : as, “ This, generally

Speaking, is the conſequence."

repentance ; or by the Participle, by preaching repentance.

“ So well-bred Spaniels civilly delight
In mumbling of the game, they dare not bite." 1
Pope, Epift. to Arbuthnot.
“ By continual mortifying our corrupe affections."
Collect, Eafter - Eve. It ought to be, by the continual
mortifying of; or, by continually mortifying, our corrupt
affections,
" The
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The Participle frequently becomes alto

gether an Adjective ; when it is joined to a
Subſtantive merely to denote its quality ;
without any reſpect to time ; expreſſing ,
not an Action, but a Habit ; and , as ſuch ,
it admits of the degrees of Compariſon :
as, “ a learned , a more learned , a moſt
learned man ; a loving, more loving, moſt
loving father [ 4 ]. ”

14] In a few inftances the Active Preſent Participle

hath been vulgarly uſed in a Paſſive Senſe : as, be
holding for beholden ; owing for omven . And ſome of
our writers are not quite free from this miſtake :
“ I would not be beholding to fortune for any part of
the victory.” Sidney.
“I'll teach you all what's owing to your Queen ."
Dryden .
“ The debt, owing from one country to the other,
# cannot be paid without real effects ſent thither to that
value." Locke.
“ We have the means in our hands, and nothing
but the application of them is wanting." Addiſon .
“ His eſtate is dipped, and is eating out with uſury ."
Steele, Spect. N° 114.
So likewiſe the Paſſive Participle is often employed
in an Active ſenſe, in the word miſtaken, uſed inſtead
of miſtaking :
Simple
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Simple Sentences are 1. Explicative, or

explaining : 2. Interrogative, or aſking :
3. Imperative, or commanding [ 5 ] .
: 1. An Explicative Sentence is, when a
thing is ſaid to be, or not to be ; to do, or
not to do ; to ſuffer, or not to ſuffer ; in a
direct manner : as in the foregoing exam
ples. If the Sentence be Negative, the
Adverb not is placed after the Auxiliary ;

" You are too much miſtaken in this King."

Shakeſpear, Hen, V.
" I miſtake ;" or, “ I am miitaking ;” means, " I
miſunderſtand : " but, “ I am miltaken , ” means pro
perly, “ I am miſunderſtood ."
But in ſome of theſe Participles the Abuſe is fo
authoriſed by Cuſtom, as almoit to have become an
Idion of the language.
[ 5 ] Theſe are the three Primary Modes, or man
ners of expreſſing our thoughts concerning the being,
doing, or ſuffering of a thing. If it comes within
our knowledge, we explain it, or inake a declaration
of it ; if we are ignorant of it or doubtful, we inake
an enquiry about it ; if it is not immediately in our
power, we expreſs our deſire or will concerning it.
In Theory, therefore , the Interrogative form ſeeins.
to have as good a title to a Mode of its own, as either
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or after the Verb itfelf, when it has no

Auxiliary : as, “ it did not touch him ;"
or, " it touched him not [6 ]."
2. In an Interrogative Sentence, or when
a Queſtion is aſked , the Nominative caſe

of the other two : but Practice has determined it other

wife ; and has , in all the Languages with which we
are much acquainted, fupplied the place of an Inter
rogative Mode, either by Particles of Interrogation,
or by a peculiar order of the words in the ſentence.
If it be true, as I have ſomewhere read, that the Modes
of the Verbs are more numerous in the Lapland
tongue thani in any other, poſſibly the Laplanders may
be provided with an Interrogative Mode.
[6] “ The burning lever not deludes his pains.”
Dryden , Ovid . Metam . B. xii.
* I hope, my Lord, ſaid he, I not offend ."
Dryden, Fables.
Theſ e examp les make the impro priet y of placing the
Adverb not before the Verb very evident. Shakeſpear
frequently places the Negative before the Verb :
“ She not denies it." Much ado.
« For men
Can counſel, and give comfort to that grief;
Which they themſelves not feel.” Ibid .
It ſeems therefore, as if this order of words had an
I tiently been much in uſe, though now grown altogen
ther obfolete.
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follows the Principal Verb, or the Auxiliary:

as, " was it he ? ” “ did Alexander conquer
the Perſians ?” And the Adverb there , ac
companying the Verb Neuter, is alſo placed
after the Verb : as , “ was there a man ? "

So that the Queſtion depends intirely on

the order of the words [ 7 ].
3. In an Imperative Sentence , when a
thing is commanded to be, to do, to ſuffer,
or not ; the Nominative caſe follows the

Verb, or the Auxiliary : as , “ Go, thou

traytor ; " or, " do tbou go :” or the
Auxiliary let, with the Objective [8]
[ 7 ] “ Did he not fear the Lord, and befor.ght the
Lord, and the Lord repented him of the evil, which he
had pronounced againſt them ?” Jer. xxvi . 19. Here
she Interrogative and Explicative formsare confound
ed . It ought to be, “ Did he nat fear the Lord , and
befeech the Lord ? and did not the Lord repent him of
the evil- ?" . “ If a man have an hundred ſheep ,
and one of them be gone aſtray, doth he not leave the
ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and
Jeeketh that which is gone aftray .” Matth . xviii. 12 .
It ought to be, go, and feek ; that is , " dotka he not go,
and feck that which is gone aſtray ?"
[ 8 ] “ For ever in this humble cell
Let Thee and I, my fair one, dwell.” Prior.
It ought to be Me. cafe
 So fare the well .
Now boost the Death .

Hakerlinu , Aet ollach .

land
Ottou Jof
hi enJudah
ny tec
,
Anos VII. 12 .
Arother Fire
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caſe after it, is uſed : as , “ let us be

gone [ 9 ].”

[ 9] It is not eaſy to give particular rules for the

management of the Modes and Times of Verbs with
reſpect to one another, ſo that thcy may be proper
and conſiſtent; nor would it be of much uſe ; for
the bett rule that can be given is this very general
one, To obſerve what the fenſe neceſſarily requires.
But it may be of uſe to conſider a few examples, that
ſeem faulty in theſe reſpects; and to examine where
the fault lies.
“ Some, who the depths of eloquence have found,
In that unnavigable itream were drown'd . ”
Dryden. Juv. Sat. x .
The event mentioned in the first line is plainly prior
in time to that mentioned in the ſecond; this is ſub
fequent to that, and a conſequence of it. The firſt
event is mentioned in the Preſent Perfect Time; it
is preſent and completed ; “ įhey have ( now ) found
the depths of eloquence ." The ſecond event is ex
preffed in the Past Indefinite Time ; it is paſt and
gone, but , when it happened , uncertain : “ they
were drosun'd.” We obſerved , that the laſt mentioned
event is fubfequent to the first: but how can the Paſt
Time be fubfequcnt to the Preſent ? It therefore ought
to be , in the fecond line, are, or have been, drozvn’d, in
the Preſent Indefinite , or Perfect ; which is con
fillent with the Preſent Perfect Time in the first line :
or, in the first line, had found in the Past Perfect ;
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The ADJECTIVE in Engliſh , having na

variation of Gender or Number, cannot

which would be conſiſtent with the Paſt Indefinite in

the ſecond line.
i Friend to my life, which did not you prolong,
The world had wanted many an idle ſong."
Pope, Epift. to Arbuthnot.
It ought to be, either, had not you prolonged ; or,
would cuenta
There ſeems to be a fault of the like nature in the
following paſſage :
" But oh ! ' tuas little that her life
O’er earth and waters bears thy fame.” Prior.
It ought to be bore, in the ſecond line,
Again :
“ Him portion'd maids, apprentic'd orphans bleft,
The young who labour, and the old who reft. "
Pope, Moral Ep. iii . 267 .
“ Fierce as he mov’d, his filver ſhafts reſound.”
Iliad, B. i.
The firſt Verb ought to be in the fame Time with the
following
- Great Queen of Arms , whoſe favour Tydeus won,
As thou defendſ the fire, defend the fon .”
Pope, Iliad x. 337.
It ought to be defendedft .
66 Had their records been delivered down in the
vulgar tongue, they could not now be underſtood ,
unlels by Antiquaries, who made it their ſtudy to ex
but
 !
But the voice of God

ti mortal car ce dreadful; thuy buech

Hat Moxeo miftuhatto thim his will
Sterror ceave ; He grants what they besought
Milton , Bar. , 201. 135.
furje ;
* Ihop's Thou shouldót have been myłamlilia
Thought mufidibed to have deck' weet mai
And not have strewed my grave .
Makap : Hamlet
 ENGLISH GRAMMAR . 149

but agree with the Subſtantive in thoſe re

ſpects ; ſome of the Pronominal Adjectives

pound them .” Swift, Letter on the Engliſh Tongue.

Here the latter part of the ſentence depends intirely
on the Suppoſition expreſſed in the former, “ of their
records being delivered down in the vulgar tongue ;'
therefore made in the Indicative Mode, which implies
no fuppofition , and in the Paſt Indefinite Time, is
improper : it would be much better in the Paft De
finite and Perfect, had made ; but indeed ought to be
in the Subjunctive Mode, Preſent or Part Time, Should
make, or ſhould have made,
“ And Jeſus anſwered, and ſaid unto him , What
wilt thou, that I ſhould do unto thee ? The blind Man
faid unto him ; Lord , that I might receive my fight. "
Mark x. 51 . " That I may know him , and the
puwer of his reſurrection , and the fellowſhip of his
ſufferings, being made conformable unto his death ;
if by any means I might attain unto the reſurrection
of the dead." Phil. iii. 10, II . It ought to be may
in both places. See alſo John ix . 39. Ephef. iii . 19 .
Col. i. 9 , 10 .
“ On the morrow , becauſe he would have known the
certainty, wherefore he was accuſed of the Jews, he
looſed him . ' Acts xxii. 30. It ought to be, becauſe
he would know ; or rather, being willing to know :
βελομεν - γνωναι.
“ I thought to have written laſt week ,” is a very
common phraſe : che Infinitive being in the Pail
K 3
150 INTRODUCTION TO

only excepted , which have the Plural núm .

ber : as, theſe, thofe : which muſt agree
in Number [ 1 ] with their Subſtantives.

Time, as well as the Verb, which it follows. But it

is certainly vicious : for how long foever it now is
ſince I thought, to write was then preſent to me ; and .
muft ftill be conſidered as preſent, when I bring back
that time, and the thoughts of it, It ought to be
therefore, “ I thought to write laſt week :” . 66 I can :
not excuſe the remiffneſs of thoſe, whoſe buſineſs it
Mould have been, as it certainly was their intereit, to
bave interpoſed their good offices . " Swift. " There
were two circunſtances, which would have made it
neceſſary for them to have left no time." Ibid .
" Hiſtory Painters would bave found it difficult, to
'bave invented ſuch a ſpecies of beings. " Addiſon,
Dial. I. on Medals. It ought to be, to interpoſe, to
loję, to invent,
[ 1 ] “ By this means thou ſhalt have no portion on
this fide the river. " Ezra iv, 16. - It renders us
careleſs of approving ourſelves to God by religious
duties, and by that means fecuring the continuance of
his goodneſs." Atterbury, Sermons. Ought it not
to be, by ' tlieſe means? or by this mean, by that meaning
in the fingular number ? as it is uſed by Hooker,
Sidney, Shakeſpear, & c, seis min
5 We have itriet ſtatutes, and moſt biting laws,
Which for this nineteen years we have let fleep . "
Shakeſpear, Meaf. for Meaſ,
Nouns
A Fare, Nurse, what moes ? ...

N. Odadg , dreadful ones .

Beaumonts Patcher , Linh

lett
kinuklangor , ult
 1

How he mne cassetto das

Aufkahi veuttammer frey

iepropter Trak the maymund the
Pagaeslingkuption thathway
Munges Lakasool Atings of that
kind ." - There min are these kind of
puple to be found Swift dito a
Young clergunar
Where then an heahh of this kind

totu found ?

4
 ENGLISH GRAMMAR . 151

Nouns ofMeaſure,Number,and Weight,

are ſometimes joined in the Singular form

" I have not wept this forty years." Dryden. “ If I

had not left off troubling myſelf about thoſe kind of
things . ” Swift, Letter to Steele. " I fancy they are
w theſe kind of Gods, which Horace mentions in his alle
gorical veſſel." Addiſon , Dial. II. on Medals. I
am not recommending theſe kind of ſufferings to your
liking .” Biſhop Sherlock, Vol. II. Difc. 11. The
foregoing phraſes are all improper. So the Pronoun
muſt agree with its Noun : in which reļpect let the
following example be conſidered. 4 It is an un
anſwerable argument of a very refined age, the won
derful Civilities that have paſſed between the nation
of authors and that of readers.” Swift, Tale of a Tub,
Sect. x. As to theſe wonderful Civilities, one might
fay, that “ they are an unanſwerable argument, &¢.”
but as the Sentence ſtands at preſent, it is not eaſy to
reconcile it to any grammatical propriety. " A pers
Son (that is, one] whom all the world allows to be ſo
much your betters." Swift, Battle of Books. * ** His
face was eafily taken either in painting or ſculpture ;
and ſcarce any one, though never fo indifferently
fkilled in their art, failed to hit it, "? Welwood's Me
moirs, p . 68, 6th Edit. And the phraſe which occurs
in the following examples, though pretty common
and authoriſed by Cuftom , yet ſeems to be ſomewhat
defective in the ſame way :
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152 INTROD TO

with Numeral Adjectives denoting Plu

rality : -as to Fifty foot ;" * Six fcore.?
44. Ten thouſand fathom deep .??:
Milton , P. L. ii. 934 .
66. A hundred bead of Ariſtotle's friends.
11: 4 ! Coroi Pope, Dunciad, iv. 192 .
" About an hundred pound weight,” John
xix. 39. 107
4
The Adjective generally goes before the
Noun ; as,.“ a wiſe man ; a good horſe ;"
unleſs ſomething depend on the Adjectives
as, food convenient for me :" or the Ador
jective be emphatical , as; « Alexander the
great " and it ſtands immediately before
the Noun , unleſs the Verb to be , or any
Auxiliary joined to it, come between the
Adjective and the Noun ; as, “ happy is
the man ; happy hall he be . ” And the
Article goes before the Adjective : except

* : 'Tistety ,that early raint the female foul.” Pope.

great fpoils
' Tis they, that itill renew Ulyſſes? toilsi" Prior.
is nog als Who was’t game bygriswol
<< ' Tis iwo or three, my Lord , that bring youword,
Madcuff is dedito England ." Shakefpeat , Macb .
 * This is quite inconuet , it should
be "fifty feet ." Fifthy book woula be
ijuallinght :-bdh , to use the bisheti
Cun'wapido( p.34.n.A. it sounds mai

barbarous,only because it hand

been to fugihtly und ." ( thiviste,
That blood ,which'owd the breadth of all

hrefoot of it dorto hold;

Sukup : H. John .
theother obce

Three found of gold nemt to one sheild .

- Itong X.17
104 INTR

The fame
ation for a div .
inco Three
Verbs, difting
a peculiar forn .
of the Verbs |

Conjugations :
Terminations
Characteriſtics.
Verbs, as have
in t, might per
firit Conjugatio
and originally !
be of a very dit
ght. But as th :
gation would fi
thoſe of both
make but abou.
the third Conju

[ 7 ] The whole
language, Regular
pounded, taken tog
Ward's Eflays on 1
logue of Engliſh V
gular Verbs, the D.
 GLISH GRAMMAR. 153

Stives, ally- fucha and many, and

joined to the Adverbs, feas, and
9 56 all the men ; 0,4 fucb a man ;'
e man ;" " To good a man ; ” “ as
can as ever lived ," so boro beautiful
cctis here !" 4 And ſometimes, when
are two or môre Adjektivës “joined
Noun , the Adjectives follow the
... as, “ a’man learned and religious.”
are are certain A'djectives, which feem
** derived without any variatiðs from
:), and have the fame ſignification with
Pallive Participles of their Verbs : they
indeed no other than Latin Pallive Para
ples adapred to the Engliſh termination
cnnihilate, contaminate, elatzgi VISITEU A
** To deſtruction facred and devote. Miltok
t
<< The alien conpof is exhaus ." 12,90

..TDA 03 vots Philips, Cyder?

heſe ( ſome few excepted , which have
ained admiſſion into common diſcourſe,)
re much more frequently , and more al .
owably ,"uſed in poetry , than in proſe [ 2 ].

[ 2 ] Adjectives of this fort are ſometimes very im

3 m perly u ed , with the Auxiliary bave, or bad, in
he
 1

Sheyought nottobe used cither

in pófor in prodo.
 ENGLISH GRAMMAR . 153

the Adjectives, all, -fucha and many, and

others ſubjoined to the Adverbs, Soyas, and
how : as , “ all the men ; " : " fucb a man ;'"
“ mony: a 'man ;? To good a man ; ” “ as
good a man as ever lived ," so bow beèutiful
a proſpect is here !!! And ſometimes, when
there are two or môre Adjtáives joined
to the Noun, the Adjectives follow the
Noun : as , “ a man learned andreligious.
There are certain A'djectives, which feem
to be derived without any variation from
Verbs , and have the fame ſignification with
the Paſſive Participles of their Verbs : they
are indeed no other than Latin Pallive Para
ticiples adapted to the Engliſh termination :
as , ennibilate, contaminate, elafzoi vasivu A
“ To deſtruction facred and devote." 9 Milton .
“ The alien conipoſt is exhauft."
Taxi HbA1 sois Philips,Cyder,!
Theſe (ſome few excepted , which have
common diſcourſe ,)
illion into com
are much more frequently , and more al
thu Jowably ,"uſed in poetry , than in proſe [ 2 ].

[ 2 ] Adjectives of this fort are ſometimes very im

properly uſed, with the Auxiliary bave, or bad , in
154 INTRODUCTION TO

The Diſtributive Pronominal Adjectives

each , every, either, agree with the Nouns,
Pronouns, and Verbs of the Singular num
ber only [ 3 ] : as , “ The king of Iſrael and

ſtead of the A & tive Perfect Participle : as, “ Which

alſo King David did dedicate unto the Lord , with the
filver and gold that he had dedicate of all nations
which he ſubdued ." * 2 Sam . viii. 11 . “ And Jehoaſh
took all the hallowed things, that his fathers, kings
of Judah , bad dedicate. * 2 Kings xii . 18. So like
wife +Dan . iii. 19. It ought to be, bad dedicated.
- When both intereſts of Tyranny and Epiſcopacy
were incorporate into each other ." Milton , Eiconoclaſt.
xvii.
( 3 ] “ Let each eſteem other better than themfelves.”
Phil. ii . 3. It ought to be, himſelf. “ It is requiſite ,
that the language of an heroic poem fhould be both
perfpicuous and fublime. In proportion as either of
theſe two qualities are [ is] wanting, the language is
imperfect." Addiſon , Spect. Nº 285. " ' Tis ob
fervable, that every one of the Letters bear date after
his baniſhment; and contain a compleat Narrative of
all his ſtory afterwards.” Bentley, Diſſert. on The
miftocles's Epiſtles, Sect. ii. It ought to be bears, 1
and they contain .
There is a like impropriety in the following Sen
tence : “ I do not mean by what I have faid, that I
think any one to blame for taking due care of their
health . " Addiſon, Spect. N ° 25 .
Iohacophet
 Suthe handlation mtheBible,

Wlm ste the battle hear his voiw ,warg

man thall in their own land leave the

battle they have one ageiat internettm .

2 Tr . XIII. 33 .
1

Who wer hath any gold let them

heak it off .. Prod XXXII. 26 .

प
 ENGLISH GRAMMAR 155

Jehoſaphat the king of Judah fat, each

[king ) on bis throne, having (both } put on
their robes." 1 Kings xxii. 20. - ." Every

tree is known by his own fruit .” Luke vi.446,

Lepidus flatters both ,
Of both is flatter'd ; but he neither loves,
: Nor either cares for him ."
Shakeſpear, Ant. and Cleop.
Unleſs the Plural Noun convey a Collec
tive Idea ; as , “ That every twelve years
there ſhould be ſet forth two ſhips.” Bacon ,

Either is often uſed improperly inſtead of each : as,

“ The king of Iſrael and Jehoſaphat king of Judah fat
çither (each ) of them on his throne.” 2Chron. xviii . 9.
“ Nadab and Abihu, the ſons of Aaron, took either
[ each ] of them his cenſer.” Lev. x. I. , See alſo 1 Kings
vii. 15. Each ſignifies both of them , taken diſtinctly ,
or ſeparately : either properly ſignifies only the one, ar
the other, of them, taken disjunctively. For which
reaſon the like exprellion in the following paſſages
ſeems alſo improper : “ They crucified two other
with him , on either ſide one, and Jeſus in the midſt, "
John xix . 18 . « Of either ſide of the river was there
the tree of life.” Rev. xxii. 2., See allo 1 Kings x .
19. 6 Propoſals for a truce between the ladies of
içither party .” Addiſon, Freeholder. Contents of
N ° 38,
Every
 156 INTRODUCTION TO
Atis •1 ) / 0511

Every Verb, except in the Infinitive, or

the Participle , hath its Nominative caſe,
either expreſſed or implied ( 4 ) : as,

[ 4] “ Foraſmuch as it bath pleaſed Almighty God

of his goodneſs to give you fafe deliverance, and bath
preferved you in the great danger of Childbirth :" 4
Liturgy : The Verb bath preferred hath here no N65
minative cafe ; for it cannot be properly ſupplied by
the preceding word God , which is in the Objective caſe:
It ought to be, " and He bath preferved you ;" or 12
ther, and to preferve you." Some of our beſt writ
fers have frequently fallen into this inaccuracy , which
appears to me to be no finall one : I fhall therefore add
ſome more examples of it, by way of admonition ";
inſertingoin each , within Crotchets, the Nominative
caſe that is veficient, and that muſt neceffarily be
fupplied to fupport the proper Conttruction of the
Sentence. 26 ]f the calm , in which he was born ,
and ( which ) laſted fo long, had continued .” Claren
don , Life, p . 438 The Remonſtrance he had lately
received froin iheHouſe of Commons, and (which ) was
diſperſed throughout the Kingdom.” Clarendon, Hift.
Vol. I. p . 366. 8vo . *** Theſe we hare extracted from
an Hiſtorian of undoubted credit, a ' reverend biſhop,
the learned Paulus Jovius ; and ( they] are the ſame
that were practifed under the pontificate of Leo X.”
Pope, of the Poet Laureat. " A cloud gathering
in the North ; which we have helped to raiſe , and
“ Awake,
 [ ] " Whomwhen thyhad washed ,they
laid hu in an upfur chamber- det
ix.37. This sentence, although
bigramınatically correel boundo veíy
kaubarous. It shape:" I when they had
washed her they laid hei “le- Nobraures
δε 'ě
 ENGLISH GRAMMAR, 157
“ Awake, ariſe , or be for ever fallin : "
that is , “ Awake ye, &c . "
Every Nominative caſe, except the caſe
Abſolute,and when an addreſs is made to a
Perſon , belongs to Tonie Verb , either ex
preſſed or implied [ 5 ]: 'as in the anſwer
( which ) may quickly, break in a ſtorm upon our headse ?
Swift, Conduct of the Allies. A man, whoſe ins
clinations led him to be corrupt, and ( vho] had great
abilities to manage and multiply and defend his cor
ruptions." . Gulliver, Part I. Chap. vi. “ My Maſter
likewiſe mentioned another quality, which his ferrants
had diſcovered in many Yahoos, and [ which ] to him
was wholly unaccountable .” Gulliver, Part iv . Chap.
vii, “ This I.filled with the feathers of feveral birds
I had taken with ſpriages made of Yaboos hairs,
and [which) were excellent food.” Ibid. Chap . Xo
“ Ofiris, whom the Grecians call Dionyfius, and [who]
is the ſame with Bacchus." Swift, Mechan . Oper. of
the Spirit, Sect. ii.
" Which Homer might without a bluſh gebearſearch
And leaves a doubtful palm in Virgils verfe; " yar
4 Dryden , Fables Dedication
“ Will martial Aames for ever fire shy mind, 1 lov
And never, never be to heav'ın zefign ? anivetlilas
EVA Odyffey , xij 1454,
“ And will it, (thy mind,] never the true
[ 5 ] “ Which ruke, if it had been obſerved, a neigh
bouring Prince would have wanted a great deal of
 [ ] Hhom when they had washed ,they
laid hu in an upfur chamber iets
ix.37. This sentence, although it may
grammatically correet boundo viny
kaubacus. Itshabe;" whenHuy had
washed her they laid her " ke - RoMavres
Σε αυτην έθηκαν ..
 ENGLISH GRAMMAR , 157
“ Awake, ariſe, or be for ever fallin ;"
that is , " Awake ye, & c . "
XOV yava
Every Nominative cafe, except the the cafe
Abſolute, and when an addreſs is made to a
Perſon , belongs to lonie Verb , either ex
preſſed or implied [ 57: 'as in the anſwer
( which )may quickly break in a ſtorm upon ourheads.
Swift, Conduct of the Allies. " A man , whoſe int
clinations led him to be corrupt, and [ ho ] had great
abilities to manage and multiply and defend his cor
ruptions." . Gulliver, Part I. Chap. vi. My Maſter
likewiſe mentioned another quality , which his fervants
had diſcovered in many Yahoos, and ( which ] to him
was wholly unaccountable. " Gulliver, Part in. Chap.
vii, “ This I filled with the feathers of feveral birds
I had taken with ſpringes made of Yaboos hairs,
and [which ) were excellent food .". Ibid . Chap. Xe
“ Ofiris, whom the Grecians call Dionyſius, and (who ]
is the ſame with Bacchus. ” Swift, Mechan . Oper. of
the Spirit, Sect. ii.
“ Which Homer might withouta bluſh gebearſe,rch
And leaves a doubtful palm in Virgills perfe " in
Dryden, Fablese Dedication ,
“ Will martial fames for ever fire ehy mind, 1.lov
And nerer, never be to heara refiga'th ? rivoli
" li s
! 14.[ Odyffey , xij. 1451,
“ And will it, (thy mind ,] never,
[ 5 ] “ Wbich ruke, if it had been obſerved, a neigh
bouring Prince would have wanted a great deal of
[ ) Hhomwhen thuy had washed ,they
laid hu in an upfur chamber. Als
ix.37.This sentence, although it may
be grammatically correekboundsvery
boubacus, Itshabe: when hey had
washed her they laid her “se- dobouvres
 ENGLISH GRAMMAR, 157
“ Awake, ariſe , or be for ever fallin ; "
that is, “ Awake ye, & c. $ 79Vmwa
Every Nominative caſe , except the
Abſolute , and when an addrels is made to a
Perſon , belongs to tone Verb , either ex
preſſed or implied [ 5 ]: ' as in the anſwer
(which ) may quickly break in a ſtorm upon our heads..??
Swift, Conduct of the Allies. " A man , whoſe in
clinations led him to be corrupt, and [who ]had great
abilities to manage and multiply and defend his cor
ruptions." Gulliver, Part I. Chap. vi. 9 My Maſter
likewiſe mentioned another quality , which his fervants
had diſcovered in many Yahoos, and ( which ] to him
was wholly unaccountable .” Gulliver, Part in. Chap
vii. : " This I.filled with the feathers of feveralbirds
I had taken with ſpringes made of Vaboos hairs,
and [ which ] were excellent food." , Ibid . Chap . X
“ Ofiris, whom the Grecians call Dionyſius, and (who]
is the ſame with Bacchus. " 'Swift, Mechan. Oper. of
1 the Spirit, Sect, ii. his
« Which Homer might without a bluſh gebearſe rch
And leaves a doubtful palm in Virgills verfe.”
1 Dryden, Fables Dedication ,
“ Will martial Alames for ever fire shy mind , I LOV
And never, never be to heari zelign'th?"asivilns
tvo Odyffey, xij 14514
“ And will it, [thy, mind, ] never
s40 mg tools
[ 5] “ Wbich ruke, if it had been obſerved, a neigh
bouring Prince would have wanted a great deal of
198 INTRODUCTION TO
to a Queſtion : < Who wrote this book ?
Cicero :” that is, “ Cicero wrote it.” . Or
when the Verb is underſtood ; as,
6. To whom thus Adam :">
that is, Spake.
Every Poſſeſlive cafe fuppoſes fome Noun
to which it belongs" : ' as when wefay, « St.
Paul's, or St. James's," we mean St. Paul's
Church , or St. James's Palace.
Every Adjective has relation to ſome
Subſtantive, either exprefſed or implied :
as , “ The Twelve, " that is, Apoſtles ; " the
wiſe , the elect," that is , perſons.

that incenfe, which hath been offered up to him by

his aclorers." Atterbury, Serm . I. 1 . The Pronoun
it is here the Nominative caſe to the Verb obſerved;
and which rule is left by itſelf, a Nominative cafe
without any Verb following it. This manner of ex
prethol, however improper, is very common . It
ought to be, “ If this rule had been obſerved , &c."
“ We have no better materials to compound the Prieſt
hood of, than the maſs of mankind : wbich, cor
rupted as it is, thoſe who receive Orders must have
foine vices to leave behind them , when they enter into
the Church ." Swift , Sentiments of a Church of Eng
land - man.
In
7

The butt ofitis,baring, liker traveling

full Mher methods of improvement , as it
finished good unać , to it makuu silly

man the thousand times more inauf

firable - Addison , theft 106

* And the mariey , thatwas brought a :

quinin the morlth of your sacks cany,
il again in your hand" Gen
. .xliß /2.
 [6] For the house which Iam about
to build shall be wonderful great."
2 Chron.ü.g.

ha reparate state fuaistince ,it is highly

probable the the loul worksclearer, Munduratando
Erykten, Idiotourtem
r eu , repies louder,Moneo
punerthople stronger than it
nobles, (desiru
Can do here . Jer. Taylor, Serm . Clopsof Carbery's
death ) .
H

!
 ENGLISH GRAMMAR. 159

In ſome inſtances the Adjective becomes

a Subſtantive, and has an Adjective joined
to it : as , “ the chief Good ;" 6 Evil, be
thou myGood [ 6 ] !”

[6] Adjectives are fometimes employed as Adverbs :

improperly, and not agreeably to the Genius of the
Engliſh Language. As, " indifferent honeſt, excellent
well :" Shakeſpear, Hamlet. extreme elaborate :"
Dryden, Eſſay on Dram . Poet. “ marvellous graceful."
Clarendon , Liſe, p . 18. “ marvellous worthy to be
praiſed :" Pſal. cxlv . 3. for ſo the Tranſlators gave it.
extreme unwilling ;;"" “ extreme ſubject : ” Swift, Tale
of a Tub, and Battle of Books . « .(Xtraordinary rare:"
Addiſon , on Medals. « He behaved himſelf con
formable to that bleſſed example.” Sprat's Sermons,
# p. 80. " I ſhall endeavour to live hereafter ſuitable
1
tó a man in my ſtation ." Addiſon, Spect . Nº 530.
" The Queen having changed her m' iniſtry ſuitable
to her own wiſdom .” Switt, Exam . N ° 21 . 66 The
aſſertions of this Author are eaſier detected .” Swift ,
Public Spirit of the Whigs. " The Characteriſtic of
his Sect allowed him to affirm no ſtronger than that ,"
Bentley, Phil . Lipf. Remark liii . 6 If one author
had ſpoken nobler and loftier than another ." Ibid .
“ Xenophon fays cxprefs.” Ibid . Remark xlv. " I
can never think ſo very mean of him .". Id . Diſſertation
on Phalaris, p. 27. « Homer deſcribes this river
agreeable to the vulgar reading." . Pope, Nore on Iliad.
ii . ver. 1032. So exceeding, for exceedingly, however
2
 160 INTRODUCTION TO

In others, the Subſtantive becomes an

Adjective, or ſupplies its place ; being pre

improper, oceurs frequently in the Vulgar Tranflation

of the Bible, and has obtained in common diſcourſe.
“ We ſhould live faberly ; righteouſly, and godiy in
this preſent worid .” Tit.ii. 12 . See alſo 2 Tim. ii,
12. " To convince all that are ungodly among
them , of all their ungodly deeds, which they have
ungodly committed.” Jude 15. , " I think it very
majterly written . " Swift to Pope, Letter lxxiv .
O Liberty, Thou Goddeſs beavenly bright. "
Addifon .
The Termination ls, being a contraction of like, ex
preſſes fimilitude, or manner ; and , being added to
Nouns, forms Adjectives ; and, added to Adjectives,
forms Adverbs. But Adverbs expreſſing fimilitude, or
manner , cannot be fo formed from Nouns: the few
Adverbs, that are fo formed, have a very different im
port : as, daily, yearly ; that is, day by day, year by
year. Early, both Adjective and Adverb , is formed
from the Saxon Prepoſition ar, before. The Adverbs
therefore above noted are not agreeable to the Analogy
of formation eſtabliſhed in our Language, which re
quires godlis, ungodlily, beavenlily : tout theſe are dif
agreeable to the ear , and therefore could never gain
admittance into common uſe .
The word lively uſed as an Adverb, inſtead of lives
lib , is liable to the fame objection ; and, not being ſo
familiar to the car, immediately offends it. That
fixed
10

Ga

's

* " How hedily I justl =" Phuke ii.10

 driknop lathomedepus of eligibil .
ity at least by an after choin

b . Taylor, A.D. d . goduto delor

In aftungane frontation Becords
Narrow self - indid ronis math a

scription of good oppies & obliged in

am fiwong thoidottur onii soe .
w I rawm
ra ume , hr. Mm . 11. 18 .
honce mi theeraugh work vhal duata man ,

whom this fiemea tt world sloth intraukthug,

hitt unik lwt intertainment
thahah . Simon . Il

In aftingam of unprotection . Baconchho. of Leard

Fatherifénythibetu hapa

Hedhit think
terre ,
Sintonin

Att vi iwlabd felishish

ittol datéh di te tonként
Halt dettata fitopile .
Hou wit brighten her character to

the presents aged Juifs Proj

for advtof uliga
suppriped uildom anger . fem. Tayla .
A Living , Chap .2. Sect . 2 .
A will be too kind , & weary this with
Hepustid Sletober
#hu wilconus .
Maidi' Sragedy.d
 ENGLISH GRAMMAR. 161

fixed to another Subſtantive, and linked to

it by a mark of conjunction : as, “ ſea
water ; land -tortoiſe ; foreſt- tree .”

ADVERBS have no Government [ 7 ].

ti The Adverb , as its name imports, is ge

nerally placed cloſe or near to the word,
which it modifies or affects ; and its pro

part of poetry muſt needs be beſt, which deſcribes

moft lively our actions and paffions, our virtues and
our vices. " Dryden, Pref, to State of Innocence .
The whole deſign muſt refer to the Golden Age,
which it lively repreſents." Addiſon , on Medals,
Dial. II,
+ On the other hand, an Adverb is improperly uſed
as an Adjective in the following paſſages. “ We
may cat in fuch ſeeds and principles, as we judge
molt likely to take fooneſt and deepeſt root ." Tillot
fon ; Vol. I. Serm. 52. “ After theſe wars , of which
they hope for a foon and proſperous iſſue. " Sidney,.
“ Uſe a little wine for thy ftomach's fake, and thine
often infirmities." 1 Tim . v. 23. Unleſs ſoon and
often were formerly Adjectives, though now wholly
obſolete in that form . See Johnſon's Dictionary ;
Oftentimes and Soonly .
( 7 ] “ How much fuertera the Reformation of this
corrupt and degenerate Age is almoft utterly to be de
fpaired of, we may yet have a more comfortable prof
1 priety

On many dins, & am seldom

virtues ,- Rp. J. Ingler, de diving,

a.m.TV
 162 INTRODUCTION TO

priety and force depends on its poſition [ 8].

Its place for the moſt part is before Ad
jectives ; after Verbs Active or Neuter ;
and it frequently ſtands between the Aux
iliary and the Verb : as, “ Hemade a very
elegant harangue ; he ſpake unaffeetedly and
forcibly ; and was attentively heard by the
whole audience .”

Two Negatives in Engliſh deſtroy one

another, or are equivalent to an Affirma
tive [ 9 ] : as,

spect of future times . ” Tillotſon , I. Pref, to Serm . 49.

The firſt part of this Sentence abounds with Adverbs ;
and thoſe ſuch, as are hardly conſiſtent with one anx
other,
[ 8 ] Thus it is cominonly ſaid, “ I only ſpake three
words;" when the intention of the ſpeaker manifeſtly
requires, “ I fpake only three words."
“ Her body ſhaded with a flight cymarr,
Her boſom to the view was only bare . ”
Dryden , Cymon and Iphig.
The ſenſe neceſſarily requires this order,
- Her boſom only to the view was bare."
[ 9 ] The following are examples of the contrary :
6 Give not me counſel;
Nor let no comforter delight mine ear."
Shakeſpear, Much ado.
V.1 66 Nor
 shall not hamto my husband
nithy name, na i manidar
.
om.
xiv
.7.
.
 ENGLISH GRAMMAR . 163

• Nor did they not perceive the evil plight:

In which they were, or the fierce pains not feel."
Milton , P.L. i. 335.

PREPOSITIONS have a Government of

Caſes : and in Engliſh they always require
the Objective Caſe after them ; as , “ with
him ; from her ; to me [ 1 ]." .

c She cannot love,

Nor take no ſhape nor project of affection .” Ibid.
Shakeſpear uſes this conſtruction frequently. It is a
relique of the antient ſtyle, abounding with Negatives ;
which is now grown wholly obſolete :
6 And of his port as meke as is a mayde :
He never yet no vilanie ne fayde
In alle his lif unto no manere wight.
He was a veray pårfit gentil knight.” Chaucer .
“ I cannot by no means allow him, that this argument
muſt prove, — ” Bentley, Differt. on Phalaris, p. 515.
That we need not, nor do not, confine the purpoſes
of God .” Id . Serinon 8 .
[ 1 ] “ Who ſerveſt thou under ?” Shakeſpear, Hen . V.
“ Who do you ſpeak to ?” As you like it.
I'll tell you, who Time ambles withal, who Time
trots wiibal, who Time gallops withal, and who he
stands ſtill withal.
“ I pr’ythee, whom doth he trot withal ?" Ibid .
L 2 The
164 INTRODUCTION TO

The Prepofition is often feparated from

the Relative which it governs, and joined to
the Verb at the end of the Sentence, or of
ſome member of it : as, “ Horace is an au
thor, wbom I am much delighted with .”
oorld is too

authors with a truth, which generally their

bookſellers are the firſt that inform them
of " [ 2 ]. + This is an idiom , which our lan
guage isftrongly inclined to : it prevails in
common converfation , and fuits very well
with the familiar ſtyle in writing but the
placing of the Prepoſition before the Re
lative is more graceful, as well as more
perſpicuous į and agrees much better with
the folemn and elevated ſtyle [ 3 .

We are ſtill
ſtill much
mun at a loſs, who civil power be
16.5
longs to.'1o Locke.
In all theſe places, it ought to be whom ,
“ Now Margaret's curfe is fallin upon our heads,

When he exclaim’d orHaflingShaskeſ

, you,
pear,and I."
Ric h . III.
22 g 299,30 hommeson
It ought to be me.
[ 2] Pope, Preface to his poens: 125.00
( 3] Some writers feparate the Prepofition from its
Noun, in order to connect different Prepoſitions with
Verbs
5
 * No venkinersh maith a pripo
Milion .
 ENGLISH GRAMMAR . 165

Verbs are often compounded of a Verb

and a Prepoſition ; as to uphald , to out
weigh , to overlook : cand this compoſition
fometimes gives a new ſenſe to the Verb ; as,
to underſtand , to withdraw , to siforgive [ 4 ].
But in Engliſh the Prepoſition is more fre
quently placed after the Verby and ſepa
rate from it, like an Adverb 3 - in which
ſituation it is no leſs apt to affect the fenfe
of it, and to give it a new meaning ; and
may ſtill be conſidered as belonging to the
Verb , and as a part of it. As , to caſt, is
to throw ; but to caft up, or to compute ,

en account, is quite a different thing thus,

the ſame Noun ; as, “ To ſuppoſe the Zodiac and
Planets to be efficient of, and antecedent : to, them
felves. ” Bentley, Serm . 6. This , whether in the fa
miliar or the folemn (tyle, is always inelegant ; and
ſhould never be admitted., but in Forms of Law , and
the like ; where fulneſs and exactnefs of expreffion
muſt take place of every other confideration.
[ 4] With in compoſition retains the fignification,
which it has among others in the Saxon, of from and
againſt : as to withhold, to withſtand. So alſo for has
aa negative fignification ,from the Saxon ; as,to forbid,
-
forbcockan ; to forget, forgitan .
I3 to
3
166 INTRODUCTION TO

to fall on, to bear out, to give over ; &c . "So

that the meaning of the Verb, and the pro
priety of the phraſe, depend on the Prepo
ſition ſubjoined [ 5 ].

[ 5] Examples of impropriety in the uſe of the Pre

poſition, in phraſes of this kind , “ Your character,
which I, or any other writer, may now value our.
felves by [upon ) drawing." Swift, Letter on the
Engliſh Tongue. “ You have beſtowed your favours
to [ upon ) the moſt deſerving perfons.” Ibid . “ Upon
ſuch occaſions as fell into ( under] their cogniſance."
Swift, Conteſts and Diffenfions, &c. Chap. iii. “ That
variety of factions into [in ] which we are ſtill en
gayed .” Ibid . Chap. v. “ To reſtore myſelf into
[ to] the good graces of my fair Critics. ” Dryden ,
Pref..to Aureng. “ Accuſed the miniſters for [ of ]
betraying the Dutch .” Swift, Four laſt years of the
Queen, Book ii, “ Ovid, whom you accuſe for [ of ]
luxuriancy of verſe . ” Dryden , on Dram . Poefy.
“ The people of England may congratulate to them
felves, that"-Dryden . + - Something like this has
been reproached to Tacitus.” Bolingbroke, on Hif
tory, Vol. I. p . 136. “ He was made much on [of ]
at Argos." - " He is ſo reſolved of [on ] going to the
Perſian Court.” Bentley, Differt. on Themiſtocles's
Epiſtles, Sećt. iii . 166 Neither the one nor the other
fhall make me ſwerve out of [ from ] the path , which I
have traced to myſelf.” Bolingbroke, Letter to Wynd,
ham, p. 2520
As
 * The form of this ventence she be
alleredret und be " facitus husban

Wroached with domethinglike

This "
重。
 ENGLISH GRAMMAR . 167

· As the Prepoſition ſubjoined to the Verb

hath the conſtruction and nature of an Ad

" And virgins ſmild at what they bluſh'd before : "

at what they bluſh'd [ at .” ] Pope, Eſſay on Crit.
“ They are now reconciled by a zeal for their caule
to what they could not be prompted [ to ] by a con
cern for their beauty ." Addiſon , Spect. N° & 1 :
“ If policy can prevail upon Cover) force," Addiſon ,
Travels, p. 62. “ I do likewiſe diſſent with [ from ]
the Examiner . " Addiſon , Whig- Exam . Nº 1. “ Ye
blind guides, which ftrain at a gnat, and ſwallow a
camel. ” Matt. xxiii. 24. door:Sovies, 66 which ſtrain
out, or take a gnat orit of the liquor by ſtraining it :**
the impropriety of the Prepoſition has wholly deſtroyed
the meaning of the phraſe . Obſerve alſo , that the
Noun generally requires after it the ſame Prepoſition,
as the Verb from which it is formed : “ It was per
fectly in compliance to ( with ) fome perſons, for whoſe
opinion I have great deference." Swift , Pref. to
Temple's Memoirs. “ Not froin any perſonal hatred
to them , but in juſtification to [ of ] the beit of
Queens.” Swift, Examiner, Nº 2 3. In the laſt ex
ample, the Verb being Tranſitive and requiring the
Objective Cafe, the Noun formed from it feems to re
quire the Poſſeſſive Caſe, or its Prepoſition, after it.
Or perhaps he meant to ſay, “ in juſtice to the beſt of
Queens." 6. The wiſelt Princes need not think it
any diminution to [of ] their greatneſs, or derogation
to [ from ] their fufficiency, to rely upon counſel.”
L 4 verb ,
168 INTRODUCTION TO

verb , fo the Adverbs, bere, there, where,

with a Prepoſition, fubjoined , as kereof ,
therewith, whereupont[ 6 ], have the conſtruea
tion and nature of Pronouns ...

Bacon, Eſay $$ . ! « Nô diſcouragement for the au

thors to proceed . Tale of a Tab, Preface. “ A
ſtriet obſervance after times and fashions.” Ibid.
Sect. ii. * Which had a much greater ſhare of in
citing him , than any regards after his father's com
mands." Ibid. Sect. vi. * So the Noun averfion, that
is, a turning away,) as likewiſe the Adjective averſe,
ſeems to require the Prepoſition from after it ; and not
fo properly to admit ofto, or for, which are often uſed
with it.
- ( 6 ] ' Theſe are much diſuſed in common diſcourſe,
and are retained only in the Solemn, or Formulary
tyle . " They ( our Authors) have of late, 'tis true,
reformed in ſome meaſure the gouty joints and darn
ing-work of whereunto's, whereby's, thereof's, there
with's, and the reſt of this kind ; by which compli
cated periods are fo curiouſly itrung, or hooked on,
óne to another, after the long-fpun manner of the bar
of pulpit .” Lord Shafteſbury, Miſcel, V.
4 :-- .Fra fche thir wourdis had fayd .
Gawin Douglas, Æ1 .
li Ibid. Æn , xii.
" Thir wikkit ſchrewis."
That is, theſe words ; " thefe wicked threws.
Iber, theſe, or thoſe, maſculine ; tbaer, theſe, or tbole,
The
 vayan bir

* So "different lo " very common ,

bafunit instead fuperend porn

}
 + These prepositions the neur 1
be understood . The two sentindes

m the text may be und que

me be the book i qet me for some
1
1
1
ab qwe tome, fged forme.

[X ] ophápicestiapexAnaxinlendixharus

for this likithson , & ge childrm of

Jotadt , Anoj iv.5 .
 ENGLISH GRAMMAR . 169

+ The Prepoſitions to and for are often un

derſtood , chiefly before the Pronoun ; as ,
« give me the book ; get me ſome paper ;'
that is , to me, for me [ 7 ].LU 93018!

feminine, Ifandick . Hence, perhaps, tsereof, there

puit), & c. of, with , them ; and fo, by analogy , the rest
of this claſs of words. } mit
- pri
Or in theſe and the like phraſes , may not me,
thee, him , her, us, which in Saxon are the Dative caſes
of their reſpective Pronouns, be conſidered as ſtill
continuing ſuch in the Engliſh , and including in their
very form the force of the Prepoſitions to and for ?
There are certainly ſome other Phraſes, which are to
be reſolved in this manner : " Wo is me!” The
phraſe is pure Saxon : 66 wa is me:" me is the Da.
tive caſe ;, in Engliſh, with the Prepoſition , to me. So ,
« methinks ;" Saxon, me thineth ;" Fuso doxet " As
25 thoughte :”, Sir John Maundevyllear . " Methoughts,
this ſhort interval of filence has had more muſic in it,
than any of the fame ſpace of time before or after it ."
Addiſon , Tatler, Nº 133. See alfo Spect. N° 3 and 43,
It ought to be, methought. “ The Lord do that which
feemetb bim good.". 2 Sam . X. 12. See alſo 1 San . iji,
18. 2 Sam. xviii. 4. “ He ſhalldwell with thee,--ia
one of thy gates,where it liketb bim best. " Deut. xxiii .
16. See allo Eith . viii . 8.
“ o well in thec !". Pfal.
cxxviii. 2. “ Wel bis the, id eſt, bene eft tibi." Simeon
Dunelm . apud X Scriptores, col. 135. “ Wel is him
that ther mai be," Anglo -Saxon Poem in Hickes's
 1
170 INTRODUCTION TO

The Prepoſition in, or on , is often un

deritood before Nouns expreſſing Time :
as , “ this day ; next month ; laſt year :” .
that is, “ on this day ;" “ in next month ;"
“ in laſt year.”

In Poetry, the common Order of words

is frequently inverted ; in all ways , in which
it may be done without ambiguity or ob
fcurity. 1

Two or more Simple Sentences, joined

together by one or more CONNECTIVE
WORDS , become a compounded Sentence.

Theſaur. Vol. I. p. 231 . “ Well is him , that dwell

eth with a wife of underſtanding." - " Well is hini,
that hath found prudence ." Ecclus xxv . 8 , 9. The
Tranſlator thought to correct his phraſe afterward ;
and fo hath made it neither Saxon nor Engliſh :
• Well is he, that is defended from it . " Ecclus xxviii.
19 . “ Wo worth the day ! ” Ezek . XXX. 2. that is,
6 Wo be to the day." . The word worth is not the Ad
jective, but the Saxon Verb weorthan, or worthan, fieri,
to be, to become ; which is often uſed by Chaucer, and
is ſtill retained as an Auxiliary Verb in the German
Language.
There
!

1
du p . 13.- where thewatwe pro
noun who is dedined ,
 ENGLISH GRAMMAR . 171

There are two Sorts of words, which

connect Sentences : 1. Relatives ; 2. Con
junctions.
Examples : 1. “ Bleſſed is theman, who
feareth the Lord ." 2. “ Life is ſhort, and
art is long." 1. and 2. “ Blefied is the

man , who feareth the Lord , and keepeth

his commandments. ”

The RELATIVES , who, which , that, hav

ing no variation of gender or number, cant
not but agree with their Antecedents. Who
is appropriated to perſons ; and ſo may be
accounted Maſculine and Feminine only :
1
we apply which now to things only ; and
to Irrational Animals , excluding them from
Perſonality, without any confideration of
Sex : which therefore may be accounted
Neuter . But formerly they were both in
differently uſed of perſons : “ Our Father,
which art in heaven ." That is uſed indif .
ferently both of perſons and things : but
perhaps would be more properly confined
to the latter. What includes both the An
tecedenc
 172 INTRODUCTION TO

tecedens and the Relative : as, " This was

wbat he wanted ; " thaciszes thething which

he wanted [8 ]." - 13
The Relative is the Nominative Cafe to
the Verb , when no other Nominative comes
bettveen it and the Verb : but when another
Nominative comes between it and the Verb ,
the Relative is governed by ſome word in its
own member of the Sentence : as , “ The
God , who preferveth me ; vbofe I am , and
whom I ſerve [ 9 ].” -

[ 8 ] That hath been uſed in the fane manner, as in

cluding the Rdative sebicb ; but it is either impro
per, or obſolete: as, “ To conſider adviſedly of that
is moved ." Bacon , Effay xxii. “ We ſpeak that we
do know , and teſtify that we have ſeen . ” John iii . 1 !.
So likewiſe the Neuter Pronoun it : as, “ By this allo
a man may underitand, when it is that men may be
ſaid to be conquered ; and in what the nature of Con
queſt and the Right of a Conqueror confifteth : for
this Submiſſion is.it (that which ) iinplyeth them all."
Hobbes, Leviathan , Conclufion . “ And this is it
(that which] men mean by diftributive Juſtice, and
(which) is properly termed Equity.” Hobbes, Ele
ments of Law , Part I. Chap. iv, 2 .
( 9 ) “ Wb0, inſtead of going about doing good,
they are perpetually intent upon doing mifchief." Til
lotſon, Serm . I, 18. The Nominative Cafe they in
Every
1

1
Who when they were thalte, feel the herold,
Mthoughtupon one pair of luglish legs
Did march threedenehmen ?
Shaksh : Sent
 ENGLISH GRAMMAR . 173

Every Relative muſt have an Antecedent

to which it refers, either expreſied, or un
derſtood : as , “ Who ſteals my porfe, ſteals
traſh : " that is, the man , wbo !
The Relative is of the fame perſon with
the Antecedent ; and the Verb agrees with
it accordingly : ras, “ Who is this, that com
eth from Edom ; this, that is glorious in
his apparel ? I, that ſpeak in righteouf
inefs." .. Iſaiah lxiii. I. “ O Shepherd of
Iſrael; Thou, that leadeft Joſeph like a
flock ; Thou , that dwelleſ between the
Cherubims. ” Pfal. lxxx. 1. [ 1 ]:

this ſentence is fuperfluous: it was exprefTe :l before in

the Relative subo. • Commend me to an årguinent ,
that, like a Flail, there's no Fence againit it," Bent
ley, Differt. on Euripides's Epilties , Sect. i . If that
be deſigned for a Relative, it ought to be woich, gå
verned by the Prepoſition again , and it is fuperflu
ous: thus, " again which there is no tence :” but if
that be a Conjunction, it ought to be in the preceding
snember, " ſuch an Argument." The
[ 1 ] “ I am the Lord, that maketh all things ; that
Stretcherh forth the hçavens alone:" Ilaiah sliv , 24.
Thus far is right ; the Lord in the third Perſon is the
Antecedent, and the Verb agrees with the Relative in
the third Perion : " I am the Lord ,cohish Lord, or He
 174 INTRODUCTION TO

When this, that, theſe, thoſe, refer to a

preceding Sentence ; this, or theſe, refers to
shat, maketh all things.” It would have been equally
right, if I had been made the Antecedent, and the
Relative and the Verb had agreed with it in the Firſt
Perſon : 56 I am the Lord, that make all things ."
But when it follows, “ thatſpreadeth abroad the earth
by myjelf; " there ariſes a confuſion of Perſons, and a
maniteit Soleciiin .
“ Thou great firſt Cauſe, leaſt underſtood !
Who all my ſenſe confin'd
To know but this, that Thou art good,
And that my felf am blind :
Yet gave me in this dark eſtate, & c. ”
Pope , Univerſal Prayer.
It ought to be, confinedſt, or didſt confine : gaveft, or
didſt give; &c. in the ſecond Perſon .
“Thou ſupreme : high thron'd all height above !
Ogreat Pelaſgic, Dodonean Jove!
Who'midit ſurrounding froits, and vapours chill,
Prefide on bleak Dodona's vocal hill ! ”
Pope, Iliad xvi. 284 .
“ Nor thou , lord Arthur, ſhalt eſcape :
To thee I often call'd in vaing
Againſt that affaſſin in crape ;
Yet thou couldīt tamely ſee me ſlain.
Nor when I felt the dreadfulblow ,
Or chid the dean, or pinch'd thy ſpouſe.”
Swift, Market -hill Thorn .
See above , p. 68. Note.
the
1
 ENGLISH GRAMMAR . 175

the latter member or term ; tbat, or tboſe,

to the former : as ,
Self- love, the ſpring of motion ,acts the foul ;
Reafon's comparing balance rules the whole :
Man , but for that, no action could attend ;
And, but for this, were active tö no end. "
Pope, Efray on Man.
. " Some place the bliſs in action , fome in eale :
Thoſe call it pleaſure, and contentment theſe. "
Ibid .
The Relative is often underſtood , or
omitted : as , “ The man I love ; " that is ,
“ whom I love [ 2 ]. ”

" Abuſe on all he lov’d, or lov'd him, ſpread .”.

Pope, Epift. to Arbuthnot.
That is, all whom he lov’d, or who lov'd him :” or,
to make it more eaſy by ſupplying a Relative that has
10 variation of Caſes, “ all that he lov'd, or ihat lov'd
him . ” The Conſtruction is hazardous, and hardly
juſtifiable, even in Poetry. “ In the temper of mind
he was then ." Addiſon , Spect. No 549. " In the
poſture I lay. ” Swift, Gulliver, Part 1. Chap. I. In
theſe and the like phraſes, which are very cominon ,
there is an Ellipfis both of the Relative and the Pre
poſition ; which would have been much better fuva
plied : “ In the temper of mind in which he was
then.” “ In the poſture in which I lay .” “ The little

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The accuracy and clearneſs of the fen
much upon the proper
tence depend very
and determinate uſe of the Relative ; fo
that it may readily preſent its Antecedent to
the mind of the hearer, or reader, without
any obſcurity or ambiguity . The ſame
niay be obſerved of the Pronoun and the
Noun ; which by ſome are called alſo the
Relative and the Antecedent ( 3 ] .

fatisfaction and confiftency (which ) is to be found

in moſt of the fyfterns of Divinity ( which ) I have met
with, made me betake myſelf to the fole reading of
the Scripture ( to which they all appeal) for the under
ftanding [of ] the Chriſtian Religion ." Locke, Pref.
to Reaſonableneſs of Chriſtianity. In the following
example the antecedent is omitted : “ He deſired
they might go to the altar together, and jointly return
their thanks to whom only it was due . " Addiſon ,
Freeholder, Nº 49. In general, the omiffion of the
Relative feems to be too much indulged in the familiar
ſtyle ; it is ungraceful in the folemn ; and, of what.
ever kind the ſtyle be, it is apt to be attended with ob
fcurity and ambiguity ,
[ 3 ] The Connective parts of Sentences are the
molt important of all, and require the greateſt care
and attention : for it is by theſe chiefly that the train
of thought, the courſe of reafoning, and the whole
CONJUNG
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CONJUNCTIONS have, ſometimes a Go

vernment of Modes. Some Conjunctions

progreſs of the mind , in continued diſcourſe of all

kinds , is laid 'open'; and on the right uſe of theſe
the perfpicuity, that is, the firſt and greatest beauty,
of 1tyle principally depends. Relatives and Con
junctions are the inſtruments of Connexion in dif
courſe : it may be of uſe to point out fome of the
moſt common inaccuracies, that writers are apt to fall
into with reſpect to them ; and a few examples of
faults may perhaps be more inttructive, than any
rules of propriety that can be given. Here there
fore ſhall be added ſome further examples of inaccura
cies in the uſe of Relatives.
· The Relative placed before the Antecedent : Ex
ample: “ The bodies, which we daily handle, make
us perceive, that, whilſt they remain between them ,
they do by an unſurmountable force hinder the ap
proach of our bands that preſs them . ” “Locke, Ellay ,
B. ii . C. 4. Sect. 1 . Here the ſenſe is fufpended, and
the ſentence is unintelligible, till you get to the end
of it ; there is no antecedent, to which the Relative
them can be referred, but bodies ; þut, " whilſt the bo
dies remain between the bodies, " makes no ſente at.
all. When you get to hands, the difficulty is cleared
up, the ſenſe helping out the Conſtruction . Yet there
ſtill remains an ambiguity in the Relative they, them ,
which in number and perſon are equally applicable to
M require
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require the Indicative, ſome the Subjunctive
Mode after them : others have no influ
ence at all on the Mode.

bodies or bands : this, though it may not here be the

occaſion of much obſeurity, which is commonly the
effect of it, yet is always diſagreeable and inelegant :
as in the following examples.
“ Men look with an evil eye upon the good that is
in others ; and think, that their reputation obſcures
them ; and that their commendable qualities do ſtand
in their light: and therefore they do what they can to
caſt a cloud over them , that the bright ſhining of their
virtues may not obſcure them .” Tillotſon, Serm . 1.42.
• The Earl of Falmouth and Mr. Coventry were
rivals who ſhould have moſt influence with the Duke ,
who loved the Earl beft, but thought the other the
wiſer man, who ſupported Pen, who diſobliged all the
Courtiers, even againſt the Earl, who contemned Pen
as a fellow of no ſenſe. ” Clarendon, Cont. p. 264.
But the following Sentence cannot poſſibly be un
derſtood, without a careful recollection of circumſtances
through ſome pages preceding.
6 All which, with the King's and Queen's ſo ample
promiſes to him [ the Treaſurer] lo few hours before
the conferring the place on another, and the Duke of
York's manner of receiving him ( the Treaſurer,] after
he ( the Chancellor) had been ſhut up with him ( the
Duke,] as be [the Treaſurer ] was informed, might
very well excuſe him ( the Treaſurer] for thinking be
Hypothe
I shall reposin the spirit of Princes,

and is wonderfulamong the Rings of

the Eutt . Perim 76 .
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Hypothetićal, Conditional, Conceſſive,

and Exceptive Conjunctions ſeem in gene
ral to require the Subjunctive Mode after
them : as , if, though, unleſs, except, whe
iber - or, &c : but by uſe they often admit
of the Indicative ; and in ſome caſes with
propriety. Examples : “ If thou be the
Son of God.” Matt. iv. 3 . “ Though he
Náy me, yet will I put my truſt in him .”

[ the Chancellor) had fome fare in the affront he

[ the Treaſurer] had undergone." Clarendon, Cont.
p . 296.
* Breaking a Conſtitution by the very fame errors,
that ſo many have been broke before.” Swift, Conteſts
and Diffentions, &c. Chap. 5. Here the Relative is
employed not only to repreſent the Antecedent Noun
the errors, but likewiſe the Prepoſition by prefixed to
it. It ought to be, “ the fame errors, by which ſo
inany have been broken before. "
Again : " - An Undertaking ; which, although
it has failed , ( partly, &c. and partly, &c.) is no ob
jection at all to an Enterprize fo well concerted, and
with ſuch fair probability of ſucceſs. " Swift, Conduct
of the Allies. That is, “ Which Undertaking is no
objection to an Enterprize fo well concerted ;" that is,
- to itſelf;" he means, “ the failure or miſcarriage of
which is no objection at all to it.”
M 2 Job
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180 INTRODUCTION TO

Job xiii. 15 . “ Unleſs he waff his Aefh .”

Lev. xxii. 6. “ No power , except it were

given from above. " John xix. II . " Wbe

ther it were I or they , ſo we preach . ”
1 Cor. xv. II . The Subjunctive in theſe
inſtances implies fomething contingent or
doubtful; the Indicative would expreſs a
more abſolute and determinate ſenſe [4 ] .

[4] The following example may ſerve tò illuſtrate

this obſervation : “ Though he were divinely inſpired ,
and ſpake therefore, as the oracles of God, with fu
preme authority ; though he were indued with ſuper
natural powers, and could therefore have confirmed
the truth of what he uttered by miracles ; yet in com
pliance with the way in which human nature and rea
ſonable creatures are uſually wrought upon , he rea
foned . ” Atterbury, Serm . IV. 5.
That our Saviour was divinely inſpired , and induęd
with ſupernatural powers , are poſitions, that are here
taken for granted, as not admitting of the leaſt doubt ;
they would therefore have been better expreſſed in
the Indicative Mode ; though he was divinely in
ſpired ; though he was indued with fupernatural
powers.” The Subjunctive is uſed in like manner
in the following example; “ Though he were a Son,
yet learned he obedience, by the things which he ſuf
fered ." Heb , v . 8. But in a ſimilar paffage the Indi
3

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That, expreſſing the motive or end , has

the Subjunctive Mode, with may, might,
should , after it.
Left ; and that annexed to a Command
preceding ; and if with but following it ;
neceſſarily require the Subjunctive Mode :
Examples ; “ Let him , that ſtandeth, take

cative is employed to the fame purpoſe, and that much

more properly : “ Though he was rich, yet for your
fikes he became poor .” 2 Cor. viii. 9. The proper uſe
then of the Subjunctive Mede after the Conjunction
is in the caſe of a doubtful ſuppoſition, or conceſſion :
as , “ Though he fall, he ſhall not be utterly caſt down .
Pſal. xxxvii . 24. And much the ſame may be ſaid of
the reit.
The fame Conjunction governing both the Indica
tive and the Subjunctive Mode, in the ſame fentence,
and in the ſame circumítances, though either of them
ſeparately would be right, ſeems to be a great im
propriety : as ,
“ Though heaven's King
Ride on thy wings, and thou with thy compeers,
Us’d to the yoke, dracu'ſt his triumphant wheels
In progreſs through the road of heav'n ſtar-pav’d ."
Milton , P. L. IV.973.
" If there be but one body of legiſlators, it is no
better than a tyranny ; if there are only two, there
will want a caſting voice ." Addiſon , Spect. Nº 287 .
M 3 heed ,
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heed , beft he fall. Cor. X. 12 . « Take

heed , that thou Speak not to Jacob . "

Gen. xxxi. 24. “ If he do but touch the
hills, they ſhall ſmoke . " Pſal. civ. 32 (5).
Other Conjunctions, expreſing a Conti
nuation , an Addition , an Inference , & c .
being of a poſitive and abſolute nature, re
quire the Indicative Mode ; or rather leave
the Mode to be determined by the other
circumſtances and conditions of the fen
tence.

When the Qualities of different things

are compared ; the latter Noun is not go
verned by the Conjunction than , or as,
( for a Conjunction has no Government of
Caſes,) but agrees with the Verb, or is

[ 5] In the following inſtances the Conjunction

that, expreffed, or underſtood , ſeems to be improperly
accompanied with the Subjunctive Mode :
“ So much ſhe fears for William's life,
That Mary's fate the dare not mourn . Prior. 1
Cs Her
eyes in heaven
Would through the airy region ſtream fo bright,
That birds would fing, and think it were not night. "
Shakeſpear, Rom. and Jul .
governed
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governed by the Verb, or the Prepoſition,

expreſſed , or underſtood . As, Thou art
wiſer than 1 [ am ]. " “ You are not ſo call
as I [ am ]. " “ You think him handſomer
than you think ] me and you love him
more than you love me . " In all other
inſtances, if you complete the Sentence in
like manner, by ſupplying the part which
is underſtood ; the Caſe of the latter Noun
will be determined . Thus, - Plato ob
ſerves, that God geometrizes : and the ſame
'thing was obſerved before by a wiſer man
than be :" that is, than he was . 66 It was

well expreffed by Plato ; but more ele

gantly by Solomon than him :" that is, than
by bim [6 ]

[ 6] “ You are a much greater loſer than me by his

death . ” Swift, to Pope, Letter 63,
" And tho' by heaven's ſevere decree
She ſuffers hourly more than me." Swift, to Stella.
“ We contributed a third more than the Dutch ,
who were obliged to the ſame proportion more than
us . ” Swift, Conduct of the Allies.
1 “ King Charles, and more than him , the Duke, and
the Popiſh Faction, were at liberty .to form new
ſchemes. " Bolingbroke, Difi. on Parties, Letter 3 .
M 4 But
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But the Relative wbo, having reference to

no Verb or Prepoſition underſtood , but

“ The drift of all his Sermons was, to prepare the

Jews for the reception of a Prophet, mightier than
Him , and whoſe ſhoes he was not worthy to bear. "
Atterbury, Sermons, IV. 4 .
“ A Poem , which is good in itſelf, cannot loſe any
thing of its real value ; though it shouid appear not
to be the work of ſo eminent an author, as him, to
whom it was firit imputed . ” Congreve, Pref. to
Homer's Hymn to Venue.
“ A ſtone is heavy, and the fand weighty : but a
fool's wrath is heavier than them both .” Prov . xxvii. 3.
“ If the King gives us leave, you or I may as law
fully preach, as them that do . " Hobbes , Hift. of Civil
Wars, p . 62 .
“ The ſun upon the calmeſt ſea
Appears not half fo bright as Thee." Prior,
" Then finiſh , dear Chloe, this Paſtoral war,
And let us like Horace and Lydia agree :
For thou art a Girl as much brighter than her,
As he was a Poet ſublimer than me. " Ibid,
« Phalaris, who was ſo much older than her. ” Bent
ley, Differt. on Phalaris, p. 537 .
In theſe paſſages it ought to be, I, We, He, They,
Thou , Sbe, reſpectively. Perhaps the following exam
ple may admit of a doubt, whether it be properly ex
preiled or not ;
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only to its Antecedent, when it follows than,

is always in the Objective Cafe ; even though
the Perſonal Pronoun, if ſubſtituted in its
place, would be in the Nominative : as ,
66 Beelzebub, than whom,
Satan except, none higher fat;"
Milton, P. L. ii . 299.
which , if we ſubſtitute the Perſonal Pronoun ,
would be,
“ none higher ſat, than he . ”
The Conjunction that is often omitted and
underſtood : as , “ I beg you would come
" The lover got a woman of a greater fortune than
ber he had mils’d . ” Addiſon, Guardian , Nº 97.
Let us try it by the Rule given above ; and fee, whe
ther fome correction will not be neceſſary, when the
parts of the Sentence, which are underſtood, come to
be ſupplied : “ The lover got a woman of a greater
fortune, that he [rvas, whom he had miſs'd . ”
“ Nor hope to be myſelf leſs miſerable
By what I ſeek , but others to make ſuch
As 1." Milton , P. L. ix , 126.
“ The Syntax , ſays Dr. Bentley, requires, “ make
fuch as me. ” On the contrary, the Syntax neceſſarily
requires, “ make ſuch as 12" for it is not, “ I hope
to make others ſuch , as to make me : " the Pronoun
is not governed by the Verb make, but is the Nomina
tive Caſe to the Verb am underſtood ; « to make others
ſuch as I am ." to
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to me:" į See, thou do it not : " that is,

“ that you would : * " that thou do [ 7 ]. ”
The Nominative caſe following the Aux
iliary, or the- Verb itfelf, ſometimes fup
plies the place of the Conjunction, if, or
though : as ; " Had he done this, he had
eſcaped : " /* Charm he never fo [ 8 ] wiſe
ly : " that is, “ if he had done this ;"
" though he charm ."
Some Conjunctions have their Corre
fpondent Conjunctions belonging to them ;
ſo that, in the ſubſequent Member of the
Sentence, the latter anſwers to the former :
aś , although , yet, or nevertheleſs ; whe
ther - or ; either , or ; neither , or nor- ,
nor ; as, as ; expreſſing a Compariſon of

[ 7 ] “ But it is reaſon, the memory of their virtues

remain to their poſterity . ” Bacon , Eſſay xiv. In this,
and many the like phraſes, the Conjunction were
much better inſerted : that the memory , & c ."
[ 8 ] Never.ſo— “ This phraſe, ſays Mr. Johnſon, is
juſtly accuſed of Soleciſin .” It ſhould be, ever ſo wiſe
ly; that is, how wiſely ſoever , “ Beſides , a Slave
would not have been admitted into that Society , had
he had never ſuch opportunities ." Bentley, Differt. on
Phalaris, p . 338 .
equality ;
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equality ; “ as white as ſnow :' as-- , fo';

expreſling a Compariſon ſometimes of equa
lity ; " as the ſtars, fo fhall thy feed be ; "
that is, equal in number : but moſt com
monly a Compariſon in reſpect of quality ;
" and it ſhall be, as with the people, ſo
with the prieſt ;, as with the ſervant, ſo with
his maſter :” “ as is the good , so is the fin
ner ; as the one dieth , ſo dieth the other : "
that is , in like manner : so, as ; with a
Verb expreſſing a Compariſon of quality :
“ To ſee thy glory, ſo as I have ſeen thee
in the ſanctuary :" but with a Negative
1
and an Adjective, a Compariſon in reſpect
1 of quantity ; as, “ Pompey had eminent
abilities ; but he was neither ſo eloquent
and politic a ſtateſman , nor so brave and
ſkilful a general ; nor was he upon the
whole so great a man , as Cæfar :" so- ,
that ; expreſling a Conſequence; &c [ 9 ] .
[ 9 ] I have been the more particular in noting the
proper uſes of theſe Conjunctions; becauſe they oc
cur very frequently, and, as it was obſerved before of
Connective words in general, are of great importance
with reſpect to the clearneſs and beauty of ſtyle. I
may add too, becauſe miſtakes in the uſe of them are
I ENTER
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INTERJECTIONS in Engliſh have no Go

vernment .

very common ; as it will appear by the following

Examples.
The Diſtributive Conjunction either is ſometimes
improperly uſed alone, inſtead of the fimple Dif
junctive or : “ Can the fig -tree bear olive-berries ?
either a vine, figs?" James iii. 12 . “ Why beholdeſt
thou the mote, that is in thy brother's eye ; but per
ceiveít not the beain, that is in thine own eye ?
Either how canit thou fay to thy brother, Brother, let
me pull out the mote, that is in thine eye ; when thou
thyſelf beholdeſt not the beain , that is in thine own
eye ? ” Luke vi. 41 , 42. See alſo Chap. xv. 8. and
Phil. ii. i 2 .
Neither is ſometimes ſuppoſed to be included in its
correſpondent nor :
“ Simois, nor Xanthus ſhall be wanting there."
Dryden .
• That all the application he could make, nor the
King's own interpofition, could prevail with Her
Majeſty .” Clarendon, Hift. Vol. III . p. 179. Some 1
1
times to be ſupplied by a ſubſequent Negative : “ His
rule holdeth ſtill, that nature, nor the engagement of
words, are not ſo forcible as cuſtom .” Bacon , Eſſay
xxxix. “ The King nor the Queen were not at all
deceived ." Clarendon , Vol . II . p. 363. Theſe
forms of expreſſion ſeem both of them equally im
proper :
Though
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if the earth , to adthalſın dicitime
He
may enjoy them ." the ditany .
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Though they are uſually attended with
Nouns in the Nominative Caſe, and Verbs

Or is ſometimes uſed inſtead of nor, after neither :

" This is another uſe, that, in my opinion , contri
butes rather to make a man learned than wiſe, and
is neither capable of pleaſing the underítanding, or
imagination .” Addiſon, Dial. I. on Medals.
Neither for nor : “ Neither in this world , neither in
the world to come.” Matt. xii. 32 .
So -, as, was uſed by the Writers of the laſt cen
tury, to expreſs a Conſequence, inſtead of fo- , that :
Examples ; “ And the third part of the ſtars was ſmit
ten ; ſo as [ that] the third part of them was darkened.”
Rev. viii. 12. “ The relations are ſo uncertain , as
[ that ] they require a great deal of examination .”
Bacon, Nat. Hift. “ So as (that ) it is a hard calumny
to affirmą ," Temple. “ So as [ that] his thoughts
might be ſeen." Bentley, Differt. on Æſop's Fables,
Sečt. vi. “ There was ſomething fo amiable, and yet
Jo piercing in his looks , as [ that ] it inſpired me at once
with love and terror. " Addiſon , Spect. No 63 .
“ This computation being ſo eaſy and trivial, as [that ]
it is a ſhame to mention it ." Swift, Conduct of the
Allies. " That the Spaniards were fo violently af
fected to the Houſe of Auſtria, as [ that ] the whole
kingdom would revolt.” Ibid . Swift, I believe, is the
laſt of our good writers, who has frequently uſed this
manner of expreſſion : it ſeems improper, and is de
ſervedly grown obſolete.
As initead of that, in another manner ; " If a man
in
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in the Indicative Mode ; yet the Cafe and

have that penetration of judgement, a's ( that) he can

diſcern what things are to be laid open ." Bacon ,
Effay vi. “ It 's the nature of 'extreme ſelf-lovers,
as [that] they will ſet an houſe on fire, and it were
but to roaft their eggs.” Id. Eſſay xxiii. “ They
would have given him ſuch fatisfaction in other par
ticulars, as [ that] a full and happy peace muſt have
enſued . " Clarendon , Vol. III . p. 214.
“ I gain'd a fon ;
And ſuch a ſon, as all men haild me happy .”
Milton, Samſ. Ag.
“ We ſhould ſufficiently weigh the objects of our
hope ; whether they be fuch , as ( that ) we may rea 1
ſonably expect from them what they propoſe in their 1
fruition , and whether they are ſuch , as we are pret
ty ſure of attaining." Addiſon , Spect. Nº 535 .
• France was then diſpoſed to conclude a peace upon
ſuch conditions, as [that] it' was not worth the life of
a grenadier to refuſe them ." Swift, Four laſt years
of the Queen, B. ii.
As inſtead of the Relative that, who, or cubich :
“ An it had not been for a civil Gentleman , as ( who]
came by Sir J. Wittol, in Congreve's Old
Bachelor . " The Duke had not behaved with that
loyalty, as ( with which ] he ought to have done."
Clarendon, Vol. II. p. 460. “ _With thoſe thoughts
as ( which ) might contribute to their honour.” Ibid .
p . 565. “ In the order as they lie in his Preface . "
Middleton, Works, Vol. III. p . 8. It ought to be,
Mode
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Mode are not influenced by them , but deter

either, “ in order, as they lie ;" or, in the order, in

which they lie .” Securing to yourſelves a ſuc .
ceffion of able and worthy men , as ( which, or who ,]
may adorn this place.” Atterbury, Sermons, IV. 12. -
The Relative that inſtead of as : “ Such ſharp , re i
plies, that [as] coit him his life in a few months afa :
ter.” Clarendon, Vol. III. ' p . 179. And inſtead of
fuch :- " If he was truly that ſuch a] ſcare-crow , as
he is now commonly painted . But I wiſh I could do
that [ fuch ] juſtice to the memory of our Phrygian,
[ as] to oblige the painters to change their pencil.”
Bentley, Differt, on Æfop's Fables, Sect. x .
The Relative zubom , inſtead of as : “ There was
no man ſo fanguine, who did not apprehend ſome ill
conſequence from the late change." Swift, Examiner,
18 Nº 24: It ought to be, either, ' jo fanguines as
not to apprehenda or “ There was no man , hozu
fanguine foever, who did not apprehend ." ...
As improperly omitted : “ Chaucer followed na
ture every where ; but was never fo bold [as] to go
beyond her .” Dryden, Preface to Fables. “ Which
nobody prefumes, or is fo fanguine [ as ] to hope."
Swift, Drap. Let., v. : “ They are ſo bold [as] to pro .
nounce . Swift, Tale of a Tub , Sect. vii . " I
muſt however be fo juft [ as ] to own. " Addiſon ,
Spect. N° 45. " That the diſcourſing on Politicks
ſhall be looked upon as ( as) dull as talking on wea
ther." Addiſon , Freeholder, Nº 38 .
The Conjunction but inſtead of than :. “ To truſt
mine
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mined by the nature of the ſentence [ 1 ],

in Chriſt is no more but to acknowledge him for
God .” Hobbes ; Human Natáre, Chap. xi. 11 .
“ They will concern the female ſex only, and import
no more but that ſubje&tion, they ſhould ordinarily be
in , to their huſbands.” Locke. 6. The full moon was
no ſooner up, and fining in all its brightneſs, but
he privately opened the gate of Paradiſe." Addiſon ,
Guardian , Nº 167 . This is none other but the
houſe ofGod ." Geneſis, xxxvii . 17 .
100 ~ , that, improperly uſed as Correſpondent
Conjunctions: “ Whoſe Characters are too profligate;
that the managing of them fiould be of any confe
quence.” Swift, Examiner, Nº 24. And, too- ,
than : “ You that are a step higher than a Philofo
pher, a Divine ; yet have too much grace and wit
than to be a Biſhop .” Pope, to Swift, Letter 8o.
So-but : “ If the appointing and apportioning of
penalties to crimes be not ſo properly a confideration
of juſtice, but rather [as ] of prudence in the Law
giver. " Tillotfon , Serm . I. 35. And to conclude
with an example, in which , whatever may be thought
of the accuracy of the expreſſion, the juftneſs of the
obſervation will be acknowledged ; which may ſerve
alſo as an apology for this and many of the preceding
Notes : “ No errors are fo trivial, but they deferve to
be mended.” Pope to Steele, Letter 6.
. [ 1 ] “ Ah me !" ſeems to be a phraſe of the farne
nature with “ Wo is me !" ); for the reſolution of
which fee above, p. 169. Note.
PUNCT
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ÞUNCTUATION .

UNCTUATION is the art of mark

ing in writing the ſeveral pauſes, or
reſts, between ſentences , and the parts of
fentences, according to their proper quan
tity or proportion , as they are expreſſed in
a juſt and accurate pronunciation.
As the ſeveral articulate ſounds, the fyl
tables and words, of which ſentences con
fift, are marked by Letters ; fo the reſts
and pauſes, between ſentences and their
parts, are marked by Points .
But, though the ſeveral articülate founds
are pretty fully and exactly marked by Ler
ters of known and determinate power ; yet

the ſeveral paufes, which are uſed in a juſt

pronunciation of diſcourſe, are very im
perfectly expreſſed by Points.
For the different degrees of connexion
between the ſeveral parts of ſentences , and
N the
194 INTRODUCTION TO :

the different pauſes in a juſt pronunciation ,

which expreſs thoſe degrees of connexion
according to their proper value, admit of
great variety , but the whole number of
Points , which we have to expreſs this way
riety , amounts only to Fouraine10
Hence it is, that we are under a neceſſity

of expreſſing pauſes of the ſame quantity,

on different occafions, by different points ;
and more frequently , of expreſfing pauſes
of different quantity by the ſame points .
So that the doctrine of Punctuation muſt

needs be very imperfect : few preciſe rules

can be given , which will hold without ex
ception in all caſes ; but much muſt be
left to the judgement and taſte of the
writer . .

On the other hand, if a greater number

of marks were invented to expreſs all the
poſſible different pauſes of pronunciation
the doctrine of them would be very per :
plexed and difficult, and the uſe of them
would rather embarraſs than aſſiſt the read
der.
It
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It remains therefore, that we be content

with the Rules of Punctuation , laid down
with as much exactneſs as the nature of the
ſubject will admit: ſuch as may ſerve for a
general direction, to be accommodated to
different occaſions ; and to be fupplied ,
where deficient, by the writer's judgement.

The ſeveral degrees of Connexion be

tween Sentences, and between their princi
pal conſtructive parts, Rhetoricians have
conſidered under the following diſtinctions,
as the moſt obvious and remarkable : the
Period, Colon , Semicolon , and Comma.
The Period is the whole Sentence, com
plete. in itſelf, wanting nothing to make a
'full and perfect ſenſe, and not connected in
conſtruction with a ſubfequent Sentence.
- The Colon , or Member, is a chief con
ftructive part, or greater diviſion ,of a Sen
tence . ‫ار‬
The Semicolon , or Half -member, isą
leſs conſtructive part, or fubdivifion, of a
Sentence or Member.
N 2 A Sen.
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A Sentence or Member is again ſubdi

vided into Commas, or Segments"; -which
are the leaſt conſtructive parts of a Sen
tence or Member, in this way of confider
ing it ; for the next ſubdiviſion would be
the reſolution of it into Phrafes and Words.
The Grammarians have followed this
1
diviſion of the Rhetoricians, and have ap
propriated to each of theſe diſtinctions its
mark, or Point ; which takes its namefrom
the part of the Sentence, which it is em

ployed to diſtinguiſh ; as follows :

The Period
The Colon
is thus marked
The Semicolon
The Comma }

The proportional quantity, or time, of

the points , with reſpect to one another, is
determined by the following general rule :
The Period is a pauſe in quantity or dura
tion double of the Colon ; the Colon is
double of the Semicolon and the Semi
colon is double of the Comma . ' So that
they are in the ſame proportion to one an
other,
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ther, as the Semibref, the Minim , the

Crotchet, and the Quaver, in Muſic. The
preciſe quantity, or duration, of each Pauſe
or Note cannot be defined ; for that yaries
with the Time ; and both in Diſcourſe and
Muſic the fame Compoſition may be re
hearſed in a quicker or a Power Time : but
in Muſic the proportion between the Notes
r remains ever the ſame ; and in Diſcourſe,
4 if the doctrine of Punctuation were exact,

the proportion between the Pauſes would

be ever invariable.
The Points then being deſigned to ex
preſs the Pauſes, which depend on the dif
ferent degrees of connexion between Sen
tences , and between their principal con
ſtructive parts ; in order to underitand the
meaning of the Points, and to know how
to apply them properly, we mult conſi
der the nature of a Sentence, as divided
into its principal conſtructive parts ; and
the degrees of connexion between thoſe
parts , upon which ſuch diviſion of it de

pends.
N 3 То
198 INTRODUCTION TO
Pro

To begin with the leaſt of theſe principal

conſtructive parts, the Comma. In order

the more clearly to determine the proper

application of the Point which marks it,
we muſt diſtinguiſh between an Imperfect
Phraſe, a Simple Sentence, and a Com
pounded Sentence. id
An Imperfect Phraſe contains no affer
tion , or does not amount to a Propoſition
or Sentence .

A Simple Sentence has but one Subject,

and one finite Verb .

CA Compounded Sentence has more than

one Subject, or one finite Verb, either ex
preſſed or underſtood ; or it conſiſts of two or
more fimple Sentences connected together,
In a Sentence the Subject and the Verb
may be each of them accompanied with ſe
veral Adjuncts ; as the Object, the End,
the Circumſtances of Time, Place , Man
ect r erb
her ,and the like : and the Subj o V
may be either immediately connected with
them , or mediately ; that is, by being con
5 nected
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nected with ſome thing, which is connected

with fome other ; and ſo one in

** If the ſeveral Adjunéts affect the Sub

* ject or the Verb in a different manner , they
are only ſo many Imperfect Phraſes ; and
the Sentence is Simple.
- A Simple Sentence admits of no Point,
by which it may be divided , or diſtinguiſhed
into parts .
If the ſeveral Adjuncts affect the Sub
ject or the Verb in the ſame manner, they
may be reſolved into ſo many Simple Sen
tences : the Sentence then becomes Com
pounded, and it muſt be divided into its
parts by Points.
: For, if there are ſeveral Subjects belong
ing in the ſame manner to one Verb, or
ſeveral Verbs belonging in the fame man
ner to one Subject, the Subjects and Verbs
are ſtill to be accounted equal in number :
for every Verb muſt have its Subject, and
every Subject its Verb ; and every one of
the Subjects, or Verbs, ſhould or may have
its point of diſtinction.
N 4 Examples :
200 INTRODUCTION TO
2
.. ? pi
! -30160 Examples :ja
11. I ol Y. [ 3
: “ The pallion for praiſe produces excel
lent effects in women of fenle ." . Addiſon ,
Spect. N° 73.5: In this Sentence paffion is
the Subject, and produces the Verb : each 1
of which is accompanied and connected
with its Adjuncts. The Subject is noci
1
paſſion in general, but a particular paſſion
determined by its Adjunct of Specification ,

as we may call it ; the paſfion for praiſes:

So likewiſe the. Verb is immediately con
nected with its object, excellent effe &ts ; and 1
inediately, that is, by the intervention of
the word effe&ts, with women , the Subject
in which theſe effects are produced ; which 1

again is connected with its Adjunct of

Specification ; for it is not meaned of wo
men in general , but of women of fenfe only .
Laftly, it is to be obſerved , that the Verb
is connected with each of theſe ſeveral Ad
juncts in a different manner ; namely, with
effe ls , as the objects with women , as the
I
ſubject
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ſubject of them ; with ſenſe, as the quality

or characteriſtic of thoſe women . The
Adjuncts therefore are only ſo many im
only fo
perfect Phraſes the Sentence is a Simple
Sentence, and admits of no Point, by which
it may be diſtinguiſhed into parts. ::

“ The paſſion for praiſe, which is ſo very

vehement in the fair ſex, produces excel
lent effects in wonien of fenfeo , Here a
new Verb is introduced , accompanied with
Adjuncts of its own ; and the Subject is
repeated by the Relative Pronoun which.
It now becomes a Compounded Sentence ,
made up of two Simple Sentences, one of
which is inſerted in themiddle of the other

it muſt therefore be diſtinguiſhed into its

component parts by a Point placed on each
ſide of the additional Sentence .

“ How many inſtances have we [in the

fair ſex ] of chaſtity, fidelity, devotion !
How many Ladies diſtinguiſh themfelves .
by the education of their children , care of
their families, and love of their huſbands ;
which are the great qualities and acchieve
isi , .s.t
ments
202 INTRODUCTION TO

ments of womankind : as the making of

war, the carrying on of traffick , the ad
miniſtration of juſtice, are thoſe by which
men grow famous, and get themſelves a
name !" Ibid . 1:12
In the firſt of theſe two Sentences, the
Adjuncts chaſtity, fidelity, devotion , are con
nected with the Verb by the word inſtances
in the ſame manner, and in effect make ſo

many diſtinct Sentences : " how many in

Itances have we of chaſtity ! how many in
ftances have we of fidelicy ! how many in .
ſtances have we of devotion ! ” They muſt
therefore be ſeparated from one another by
a Point. The ſame may be faid of the Ad
juncts.“ education of their children , & c; "
in the former part of the next Sentence :
as likewiſe of the ſeveral Subjects, the
making of war , & c , ” in the latter part ;
which have in effect each their Verb ; for
each of theſe “ is an atchievement by which
men grow famous.”
As Sentences themſelves are divided into
Simple and Compounded , fo the Members
of
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of Sentences may be divided likewiſe into

Simple and Compounded Members: for
whole Sentences, whether Simple or Com
pounded , may become Members of other
Sentences by means of ſome additional con
.nexion . ** find
01 -- Simple Members of Sentences cloſely
connected together in one Compounded
member, or ſentence, are diftinguiſhed or
ſeparated by a Comma : as in the forego
ing examples.
? So likewiſe, the Caſe Abſolute ; Nouns.
in Appoſition, when conſiſting of many
terms, the Participle with ſomething de
pending on it ; are to be diſtinguiſhed by
the Comma : for they may be reſolved into
Simple Members . hui
-- When an addreſs is made to a perſon ,
the Noun , anſwering to the Vocative . Cale
in Latin , is diſtinguiſhed by a Comma . i

Examples :

“ This ſaid, He forin'd thee, Adam ; thee, Oman ,

Duft of the ground ."
66 Now
204 INTRODUCTION TO

« Now morn , her irofy ſteps in th ' eaſtern clime

Advancing, ſow'd the earth with orient peart."
Milton .
Sorties ob olissa
* OLE
Two Nouns , or two Adjectives, connect .
ed by a ſựngle Copulative or Disjunctive,
are not ſeparated by a Point : but when
there are more than two, or where the Con .
junction is underſtood, they muſt be dif .
tinguiſhed by a Comma.
Simple Members connected by Relatives,
and Comparatives, are for the moſt part 1
diſtinguiſhed by a Comma : but when the
Members are ſhort in Comparative Sen
tences , and when two Members are cloſely
connected by a Relative , reftraining the ge
neral notion of the Antecedent to a parti.
cular ſenſe ; the pauſe becomes almoſt in
ſenſible , and the Comma is better omitted ,

Partisi ‫ܝ‬ Examples:

* Raptures, tranſports, and extaſies are

the rewards which they confer ! lighs and
gears, prayers and broken hearts, are the
offerings
”

“
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oferings which are paid to them .” Addi

fon , ibid. .?
Gods partial, changeful, paſſionate, unjuſt ;
Whoſe attributes were rage, revenge, or luft."
Hot Act ,2000. Pope .

What is ſweeter than honey ? and what

1535 1609
is, Itronger than a lion ? "

A circumſtance of importance, though

no more than an Imperfect Phraſe , may be
ſet off with a Comma on each ſide, to give
it greater force and diſtinction,

Example : 976 ur

“ The principle may be defective or

faulty ; but the conſequences it produces
are ſo good , that, for the benefit of 'man

kind, it ought not to " !!extinguiſhed .”

be .
Addiſon , ibid.

A Member of a Sentence, whether Simple

or Compounded, that requires a greater
pauſe than a Comma, yet does not of itſelf
make a complete Sentence, but is followed
by
206. INT TO 1
ROD
UCT
ION
by ſometh c
ing loſely depending on it, may
be diſting b a Semico .
uilhed y lon 1

Example :
si 69 ۱ ,

ti But as this paffion for admiration,

when it works according to reaſon, im
proves the beautiful part of our ſpecies
in every thing that is laudables fo nothing

is more deſtructive to them , when it is ğo

verned by ' vanity and folly ." Addiſon ,
ibid.
Here the whole Sentence is divided into

two parts by the Semicolon ; each of which

parts is a Compounded Member, divided
into its Simple Members by the Comma.

A Member of a Sentence, whether Sim

ple or Compounded , which of itſelf would

make a complete Sentence, and ſo requires

a greater pauſe than a Semicolon , yet is
followed by an additional part making a
more full and perfect Senſe, may be dil
tinguiſhed by a Colon .
Example :
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Example : alainen

« Were all books reduced to their

quinteſſence, many a bulky author would
make his appearance in a penny paper :
there would be ſcarce any ſuch thing in na
ture as a folio ': the works of an age would
be contained on a few ſhelves : not to men

tion millions of volumes , that would be ut

terly annihilated .” Addiſon, Spect. Nº
1 24 .
Here the whole Sentence is divided into
four parts by Colons : the firit and laſt of
which are Compounded Members, each
divided by a Comma; the ſecond and third
are Simple Members .
When a Semicolon has preceded , and a
greater pauſe is ſtill neceſſary ‫;ܪ‬a Colon may
be employed, though the Sentence be in .
complete.
The Colon is alſo commonly ufed, when
an Example, or a Speech, is introduced.
When
208 INTRODUCTION TO

When a Sentence is ſo far perfectly finiſh

ed , as not to be connected in conſtruction
with the following Sentence, it is marked
with a Period .

In all caſes, the proportion of the ſe

veral Points in reſpect to one another is
rather to be regarded , than their ſuppoſed
preciſe quantity, or proper office, when
taken ſeparately.

Beſide the Points which mark the pauſęs

in diſcourſe, there are others which denote
a different modulation of the voice in cor
reſpondence with the ſenſe. Theſe are

?
The Interrogation Point, thus
The Exclamation Point,
marked
The Parentheſis, {

The Interrogation and Exclamation Points

are fufficiently explained by their names:
they are indeterminate as to their quantity
or time, and may be equivalent in that re
ſpect
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ſpect to a Semicolon , a Colon , or a Period ,

as the ſenſe requires. They mark an Ele
vation of the voice.
The Parentheſis incloſes in the body of
a Sentence a member inſerted into it, which
is neither neceſſary to the Senfe, nor at all
affects the Conſtruction . It marks a mo .

derate Depreſſion of the voice , with a pauſe

greater than a Comma.

A PRAXIS,
 210 INTRODUCTION TO

A PRAXIS

Or EXAMPLE of Grammatical
Reſolution.
1

N the fifteenth - year of the reign of

" IMTiberius Cæſar, Pontius Pilate being
governour of Judea, the word of God came
unto John, the ſon of Zacharias, in the
wilderneſs . Duke 21 , 1.2.

2. And he came into all the country

about Jordan , preaching the baptiſm of re

pentance for the remiſſion of ſins. 2,711. Ž

3. And the ſame John had his raiment

of camel's hair, and a leåthern girdle about
his loins ; and his meat was locuſts and
wild honey . Math. IIT . L.

4. Then ſaid he to the multitude, that

tame forth to be baptized of him : Oge
neration
 ENGLISH GRAMMAR. 211
.
neration of vipers, who hath warned you to
flee from the wrath to come ? Bring forth
therefore fruits meer for repentance.

3 Luke . JIL 7.8.1

5. And as all men muſed in their hearts
of John, whether he were the Chriſt, or
not ; John anſwered, ſaying unto them all :
I indeed baptize you with water ; but one
, mightier than I cometh, the latchet of
whoſe ſhoes I am not worthy to unlooſe :
ada he ſhall baptize you with the Holy Ghoſt
and with fire, duke shri XXL 5/5

6. Now when all the people were bap

ațized, it came to paſs, that, Jeſus alſo be
76 ing baptized and praying, the heaven was
ppened , and the Holy Ghoſt defcended in

bodily fhape, like a dove, upon him ;

ind lo ! a voice from heaven ſaying : This
s my beloved Şon, in whom I am well
leaſed . Luhem . 2.23 .

1. In is a Prepoſition ; the, the Definite

Irticle ; fifteenth , an Adjective ; year, a
04
02 Subftan
212 INTRODUCTION TO

Subſtantive, or Noun , in the Objective

Caſe, governed by the Prepoſition in ; of,
a Prepoſition ; the reign , a Subſtantive,
Objective Caſe, governed by the Prepo
ſition of ;- Tiberius Cæfar , both Subftan
tives, Proper Names, Governmentand Cafe
as before ; Pontius Pilate, Proper Names ' :
being, the Preſent Participle of the Verb
Neuter to be ; governour, a Subſtantive ; of
Judea, a Proper Name, Government and
Caſe ás before ; Pontius Pilate being go
vernour, is the Caſe Abſolute ; that is, the

Nominative Caſe with a Participle without

a Verb following and agreeing with it ; the
meaning is the fame as , when Pilate was
governour ; the word, a Subftantive ; of
God, a Subſtantive, Objective Caſe , go
verned by the Prepoſition of ; came, a Verb
Neuter, Indicative Mode, Paft Time, third
Perfon Singular Number, agreeing with the
Nominative Cafe word ; unto , a Prepo

ſition ; John, a Proper Name ; the ſon , a

Subſtantive, put in Appoſition to John ;
that is, in the ſame Caſe, governed by the
ſame
1
 ENGLISH GRAMMAR . 213

ſame Prepoſition unto ; of Zacharias, a Pro

per Name ; in , a Prepoſition ; the wilder
neſs, a Subſtantive, Government and Cafe
as before . .

2. And, a Conjunction Copulative ; be, a

di Pronoun, third Perſon Singular, Maſculine

20 Gender, Nominative Caſe, ſtanding for
John ; came, as before ; into, a Prepoſition ;
all, an Adjective ; the country, a Subſtan
tive ; about, a Prepoſition ; Jordan , a Pro
per Name ; Objective Caſes, governed by
their Prepoſitions ; preaching, the Preſent
Participle of the Verb Active to preach ,
joined like an Adjective to the Pronoun he;
the baptiſm , a Subſtantive in the Objective
21
Caſe following the Verb Active preaching,
and governed by it ; of repentance , a Subſt.
!
Government and Caſe as before ; for, a
Prep. the remiffion of fins, Subſtantives, the
6
latter in the Plural Number, Government
and Caſe as before.
3. And, ( b, that is, as before ; ) the ſame,
an Adjective ; John, ( b . ) bad, a Verb Ac
cive, Indicative Mode, Part Time, third
O 3 Perſon
 CTION
214 INTRODU TO

Perſon Singular agreeing with the Nomina

tive Caſe John ; bis, a Pronoun , third Per
ſon Singular, Poffeflive Caſe : raiment, a
Subſtantive in the Objective Caſe, follow
ing the Verb Active bad , and governed by
it ; of camelºs, Subſtantive, Poffeffive
a
Caſe ; bair , Şubſtantive, Objective Cafe ,
governed by the Prepoſition of, the fame
as, of the hair of a camel ; and , ( b ) a , the
Indefinite Article ; leatbern , an Adj. girdle,
a Subft . about , ( b . ) bis , ( b .) {oins, Subft .
plural Number , Objective Caſe , governed
by the Prepoſition about ; and bis; (b )
meat, Subſt. was, Indicative Mode, Paft
Time, third Perſon Singular of the Verb
Neuter to be ; locufts, Subſtantive, Plural
Number, Nominative Caſe after the Verb
was ; and, ( b .) wild , : Adjective ; boney ,
Subſtantive, the fame Cafe ..
4. Then , an Adverk

tive , Paft Time, third Perfop Singular

agreeing with the Nominative Cafe be,
( b . ) .to, a Prep. the multitude; Subſt. Ob
jective Caſe , goyerned by the Prep . to ;
that,
 ENGLISH GRAMMAR . 215
!
that, a Relative Pronoun , its Antecedent
is the multitude ; came, ( b. ) forth ,;,an Ad
verb ; to , a Prep. and before a Verb the
fign of the Infinitive Mode ; be baptized,
a Verb Paſſive , made of the Participle
Paſſive of the Verb to baptize, and the
Auxiliary Verb to be, in the Infinitive
‫ا‬
co Mode ; of him , Pronoun, third Perſon
Sing, ſtanding for John, in the Objective
Cafe governed by the Prep. of ; o, an
Interjection ; generation , Subſt. Nomina

hal tive Caſe ; of Vipers, Subſt. Plural Num

ber, Objective Caſe, governed by the Prep.
of ; who, an Interrogative Pronoun ; bath
'warned, a Verb Active, Preſent Perfect
Time, made of the Perfect Participle
R
- warned and the Auxiliary Verb bath , third
Perſon Singular, agreeing with the Nomi
native Caſe wbo ;, you ; Pronoun , ſecond
Perſon plural, Objective Caſe, following
the Verb Active warned , and governed by
it ; to flee, Verb Neuter, Infinitive Mode ;
from , a Prep. the wrath , Subſt . Objective
Çafe, governed by the Prep. from ; . to
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come, Verb Neuter, Infinitive Mode ; bring,

Verb Active , Imperative Mode, ſecond
Perſon plural, agreeing with the Nomi
native Caſe ye underſtood ; as if it were,
bring ge ; fortb, an Adverb ; therefore, a
Conjunction ; fruits , a Subſt . Plural , Ob
jective Caſe, following the Verb , Active
bring, and governed by it ; meet, an Ad
jective, joined to fruits, but placed after
it, becauſe it has fomething depending on
it ; for repentance, a Subſtantive governed
by a Prepoſition , as before.
5. And, ( b . ) as, a Conjunction ; all,
( b . ) men, Subſt. plural Number ; muſed,
a Verb Active, Part Time, third Perſon
Plural, agreeing with the Nominative Cafe
snen ; in , ( b ) their, a Pronominal Ad

jective, fram the Pronoun they ; bearts,

Subſt. plural Number, Objective Caſe go
verned by the Prep . in ; - of John, ( b. )
wbetker, a Conjunction ; be, ( 5.) were,
Subjunctive Mode, governed by the Con .
junction whether, Paft Time, third Per
fon Sing of the Verb to be, agreeing with
the
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the Nominative Cafe be ; the Chrift,

Subſt . Nominative Cafe after Verb were ;
of, a Disjun &tive Conjunction, correſpond
ing to the preceding Conjunction whe
ther ; not , an Adverb ; John, ( b. ) an
,
1 swered, a Verb Active, Indicative Mode,
Palt Time, third Perſon Sing. agreeing
with the Nominative Caſe Jobn ; ſaying,
Preſent Participle of the Verb Active to
Say, joined to the Subſtantive John ; unto,
( b . ) them , a Pronoun , third Perſon Plural ,
Die
Objective Caſe governed by the Prepo
ſition 'unto ; all, ( b. ) I, Pronoun , firſt
Perfon Singular ; indeed, an Adverb ; bap
tize, a Verb Active, Indicative Mode,
Preſent Time, firſt Perfon Singular, agree
ing with the Nominative Cafe ' I ; you ,
Pronoun , fecond Perſon Plural , Objective
Cale, following the Verb Active baptize,
and governed by it ; with, a Prep . water,
Subſt. Objective Caſe , governed by the
Prepoſition with ; but , a Disjunctive Con
junction ; one, a Pronoun, itanding for
fome Perſon not mentioned by name ;
mightier,
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N the fifteenth year of the reign of

" IT Tiberius Cæſar, Pontius Pilate being

governour of Judea, the word of God came
unto John , the ſon of Zacharias, in the
wilderneſs. Luke 116, 1.2 .

2. And he came into all the country

about Jordan , preaching the baptiſm of re
pentance for the remiſſion of ſins.2.3.1.3

3. And the fame John had his raiment

of camel's hair , and a leathern girdle about
his loins ; and his meat was locuſts and

wild honey . Math. II . L.

4. Then faid he to the multitude, th

came forth to be baptized of him : 0

nerat
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neration of vipers, who hath warned you to

flee from the wrath to come ? Bring forth
therefore fruits meer for repentance.
Luke 71. 7.8.4
5. And as all men muſed in their hearts

of John, whether he were the Chriſt, or

not ; John anſwered, ſaying unto them all :
I indeed baptize you with water ; but one
mightier than I cometh, the latchet of
whoſe ſhoes I am not worthy to unlooſe :
he ſhall baptize you with the Holy Ghoſt
and with fire. Luke Juri X 5.1k

6. Now when all the people were bap

tized , it came to paſs, that, Jeſus alſo be
ing baptized and praying, the heaven was
opened , and the Holy Ghoſt defcended in
a bodily tape, like a dove, upon him ;
and lo ! a voice from heaven ſaying : This
is my beloved Şon , in whom I am well
pleaſed. Luke.n. 1.23.

" 1. In is a Prepoſition , the, the Definite

Article ; fifteenth , an Adjective ; year, a
02 Subftan
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Subſta pun , in the Objectiv

Cafe y thePrepoſition
a T the reign , a Sv
governed b
Derius Cæfar
Names , Gr ale
Pontius P nes :
Preſent e Verb
o be ; gr Intive ; of
Pro rnment and
ho ilate being go
ute ; that is , the
Participle without
agreeing with it ; the
e as, when Pilate was
vord , a Subftantive ; of
ive, Objective Caſe, go
Prepoſition of ; came, a Verb
ative Mode , Paft Time , third
ular Number , agreeing with the
e Cafe word ; tunto, a Prepo
bn , a Proper Name ; the ſon, a
ė, put in Appoſition to John ;
the ſame Caſe, governed by the
fame
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fame Prepoſition unto ; of Zacharias, a Pro

per Name ; in, a Prepoſition ; the wilder
neſs, a Subſtantive, Government and Caſe
as before.

2. And, a Conjunction Copulative ; be, a

Pronoun, third Perſon Singular, Maſculine
Gender, Nominative Cafe , ſtanding for
John ; came, as before ; into, a Prepoſition ;
all, an Adjective ; the country, a Subſtan
tive ; about, a Prepoſition ; Jordan, a Pro
per Name ; Objective Cafes, governed by
their Prepoſitions ; preaching, the Preſent
Participle of the Verb Active to preach ,
joined like an Adjective to the Pronoun be ;
the baptiſm , a Subſtantive in the Objective
Caſe following the Verb Active preaching,
and governed by it ; of repentance, a Subft.
Government and Caſe as before ; for, a
Prep . the remifhon of ſins, Subſtantives, the
latter in the Plural Number, Government
1
and Caſe as before.
3. And , ( b, that is, as before ; ) the ſame,
an Adjective ; John, ( b. ) bad , a Verb Ac
tive, Indicative Mode, Paft Time, third
O 3 Ferſon
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Perſon Singular agreeing with the Nomipa .

tive Caſe John ; bis, a Pronoun , third Per
fon Singular, Poffeſſive Cafe : raiment, a
Subſtantive in the Objective Caſe, follow
ing the Verb A &tive bad, and governed by
it ; of camel's, a Şubſtantive, Poffeflive
Caſe ; bair, Şubſtantive , Objective Cafe,
governed by the Prepoſition of, the fame
as, of the hair of a camel; and, ( b ) a , the
Indefinite Article ; leathern , an Adj. girdle,
a Subſt. about, ( b. ) his, ( b. ) loins, Subft .
plural Number, Objective Caſe , governed
by the Prepoſition about '; and bis; ( b )
meat, Subft. was, Indicative Mode, Paſt
Time, third Perſon Singular of the Verb
Neuter to be ; locufts, Subſtantive, Plural
Number, Nominative Caſe after the Verb
was ; and, ( b. ) wild , Adjective ; boney,
Subſtantive, the ſame Cafe.
4. Then , an Adyerb ; ſäid, a Verb Ac
tive, Paft Time, third Perſop Singular
agreeing with the Nominative Cafe be,
( b .) to, a Prep. the multitude, Subſt. Ob
jective Cafe, goyerned by the Prep . to ;
that,
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that, a Relative Pronoun , its Antecedent

is the multitude ; came, ( b .) forth ,;,an Ad
verb ; to, a Prep. and before a Verb the
ſign of the Infinitive Mode ; be baptized,
a Verb Paſſive, made of the Participle
Paſſive of the Verb to baptize, and the
Auxiliary Verb to be, in the Infinitive
Mode ; of him , Pronoun , third Perſon
Sing. ftanding for John, in the Objective
Cafe governed by the Prep. of ; O , an
Interjection ; generation , Subſt. Nomina
tive Caſe ; of Vipers, Subft. Plural Num
ber, Objective Caſe , governed by the Prep.
of ; wbo , an Interrogative Pronoun ; bath
warned , a Verb Active, Preſent Perfect
Time, made of the Perfect Participle
warned and the Auxiliary Verb bath , third
Perſon Singular, agreeing with the Nomi
native Caſe wbo ; you , Pronoun , ſecond
Perſon plural, Objective Caſe , following
the Verb Active warned , and governed by
it ; to flee, Verb Neuter, Infinitive Mode ;
from , a Prep. tbe wrath , Subft . Objective
Çale, governed by the Prep. from ; to
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come, Verb Neuter , Infinitive Mode ; bring,

Verb Active, Imperative Mode, ſecond
Perſon plural, agreeing with the Nomi
native Caſe ye underſtood ; as if it were,
þring ye'; forth, an Adverb ; therefore, a
Conjunction ; fruits, a Subſt. Plural, Ob
jective Caſe, following the Verb Active
bring , and governed by it ; meet, an Ad
jective, joined to fruits, but placed after
it, becauſe it has fomething depending on
it ; for repentance, a Subſtantive governed
by a Prepoſition, as before.
15. And, ( b . ) as, a Conjunction ; all,
( b . ) men, Subſt. plural Number ; muſed ,
a Verb Active, Paft Time, third Perſon
Plural, agreeing with the Nominative Cafe
snen ; in , ( b . ) their , a . Pronominal Ad

jective, from the Pronoun tbey ; hearts,

Subſt. plural Number, Objective Caſe go
verned by the Prep . in ; - of John, ( b. )
wbetker, a Conjunction ; be, ( b . ) were,
Subjunctive Mode, governed by the Con .
junction whether , Paft Time, third Per
ļon Sing of the Verb to be, agreeing with
the
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the Nominative Cafe be , the Chriſt ,

Subſt. Nominative Cafe after Verb were ;

of, a Disjunctive Conjunction , correſpond

ing to the preceding Conjunction whe
ther ; not, an Adverb ; John, ( b. ) an
swered, a Verb Active, Indicative Mode,
Paſt Time, third Perſon Sing. agreeing
with the Nominative Cafe Jobn ; ſaying,
Preſent Participle of the Verb Active to
Say, joined to the Subſtantive John ; unto,
( b . ) them, a Pronoun , third Perſon Plural,
Objective Caſe governed by the Prepo
ſition unto ; all, ( b. ) I, Pronoun , firſt
Perſon Singular ; indeed, an Adverb ; bap
țize, a Verb Active, Indicative Mode,
Preſent Time, firſt Perfon Singular , agree

ing with the Nominative Cafe ' I ; you ,

Pronoun , fecond Perſon Plural , Objective
Caſe , following the Verb Active baptize,
and governed by it ; with, a Prep . water,
Subſt. Objective Caſe , governed by the
Prepofition with ; but, a Disjunctive Con
junction ;one, a Pronoun; itanding for
fome Perſon not mentioned by name ;
mightier,
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mightier , an Adjective in the Comparative

Degree, from the Poſitive mighty ; tban,
a Conjunction, uſed after a Comparative
word ; 1, ( b . ) the Verb ' am being under
ſtood ; that is, than I am ; cometh , a Verb
Neuter, Indicative Mode, Preſent Time,
third Perſon Sing. agreeing with the Nô
minative Caſe one ; the latchet, Subft, of,
( b . ) wboſe, Pronoun Relative , one being
the Antecedent to it, in the Poffeffive

Caſe ; moes, Subſt. Plural , Objective Caſe,

governed by the Prepoſition of ; : 1, ( b .)
am, Indicative Mode, Preſent Time, firſt
Perſon Sing, of the Verb to ' be, agreeing
with the Nominative Caſe 1 ; not, ( b .)
worthy, an Adjective ; to unlooſe, a Verb
Active, in the Infinitive Mode, governing
the Subſtantive latchet, in the Objective
Cafe ; be, (b .) fall baptize, a Verb Active,
Indicative Mode , Future Time, made by
the Auxiliary hall, third Perſon Sing.
agreeing with the Nominative Caſe be;
you ( b .) with the, ( b. ) Holy; an Adjective ;
Ghoſt, a Subft. and with ( 6. ) fire, a Sub
ftantive ;
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ftantive ; this and the former both in the

Objective Caſe governed by the Prep.

witb .

6. Now , an Adverb ; when , a Con

junction ; , all, (b ) the people, a Subſt.
were baptized, a Verb Paſſive, made of the
Auxiliary Verb to be joined with the Par
ticiple Paſſive of the Verb to baptize, Indi
cative Mode, Paſt Time, third Perſon

I Plural , agreeing with the Nominative Caſe

Singular people, being a Noun of Multi
tude ; it, Pronoun , third Perſon Singular,
Neuter Gender, Nominative Caſe ; came,
( b .) to paſs, Verb Neuter, Infinitive Mode ;
! that, a.Conjunction ; Jeſus, a proper Name;
alſo, an Adverb ; being, Preſent Participle
of the Verb to be ; baptized, Participle Pal
five of the Verb to baptize ; and , (b .) pray
ing, Preſent Participle of the Verb Neu
ter to prays Jeſus being baptized and pray
ing is the Çafe Abſolute, as before ; tbe
beaven , Subſtantive ; was opened, Verb
Pallive, Indicative Mode, Paft Time, third
Perſon Singular, agreeing with the Nomi
native
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native Caſe heaven , the Auxiliary Verb

to be being joined to the Participle Pal
five, as before ; and the Holy Ghoft, ( b .)
deſcended, Verb Neuter, Indicative Mode,
Part Time, third Perſon Singular, agree
ing with the Nominative Cafe Gbojt ; in
a , ( b. ) bodily, an Adjective ; ſhape, a Sub
ftantive, Objective Caſe, governed by the
Prepoſition in ; like, an Adjective ; a dove,
a Subſtantive, Objective Cafe , the Pre
poſition to being underſtood, that is , like
to a dove ; upon , Prepoſition ; him , Pro
noun , third Perſon Singular, Objective
Caſe governed by the Prepoſition upon ;
and, ( b. ) lo, an Interjection ; a voice, Sub
Itantive, Nominative Caſe , there was being
: underſtood ; that is , there was a voice :
from , Prepoſition ; heaven , Subſtantive,
Objective Caſe ; ( b. ) ſaying, (b. ) this, a
Pronominal Adjective, perſon being un
derſtood ; is, Indicative Mode, Preſent
Time, of the Verb to be, third Perſon
Singular, agreeing with the Nominative

Caſe this ; my, a Pronominal Adjective ;

beloved,
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beloved , an Adjective ; Son , a Subſtantive ,

Nominative Caſe after the,Verb is ; in ,
( b. ) whom, Pronoun Relative, Objective
Caſe governed by the Prepoſition in, the
Subſtantive son being its Antecedent ; I
am , ( b . ) well, an Adverb ; pleaſed, the
Paſſive Participle of the Verb to pleaſe,
making with the Auxiliary Verb am a Paſ
ſive Verb, in the Indicative Mode, Preſent
Time, firſt Perſon Singular, agreeing with
the Nominative Caſe I.

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