 | Alexander Crombie - English language - 1809 - 456 pages
...singular; thus, " Caesar, as well as Cicero, was " remarkable for eloquence." Note 4. When the Nominatives are of different persons, the first person is preferred to the second, and the second to the third. In other words, / and you, 1 and he, are sylleptically the same, as me ; you and he, the same as ye.... | |
 | Georg Heinrich Noehden - German language - 1818 - 496 pages
...: 9Rort> unb SSewuftung berrfcfyst im ganbe, murder and destruction reign in the land. 2. When tlie subjects are of different persons, the first person...will be in the first person plural, when one of the subject nominatives is of the first person, and in the second, if there is a second, and no first personal... | |
 | Georg Heinrich Noehden - 1823 - 486 pages
...other. It should be thus supplied, SOîorb t)errfá)et im Sanbe, unb SSerwuftung íjerrfdíjet im 8anbe. 2. When the subjects are of different persons, the...will be in the first person plural, when one of the subject nominatives is of the first person, and in the second, if there is a second, and no first personal... | |
 | Goold Brown - English language - 1826 - 122 pages
...plural number : as, " James and John will favour us with their company." OBs. 1. When the antecedents are of different persons, the first person is preferred to the second, and the second, to the third : as, "John, and thou, and I, are attached to our country." — u John andtthou are attached to your... | |
 | Georg Heinrich Noehden - German language - 1827 - 540 pages
...other. It should be thus supplied, SKorb fjerrfdjet tm Sonbe, unb SSenouflung fjerrftyet tm 8onbe. 2. When the subjects are of different persons, the...will be in the first person plural, when one of the subject nominatives is of the first person, and in the second, if there is a second, and no first personal... | |
 | Karl Benjamin Schade - German language - 1828 - 574 pages
...enjoyments of life, nothing can make us happy if we have a bad conscience. When two subjects are two different persons, the first person is preferred to the second, and the second to the third. When consequently the verb relates to two subjects which stand in the first and second, or in the first... | |
 | Alexander Crombie - English language - 1830 - 490 pages
...until her back, As well as sides, warlike to crack." — Hudibras. Note 6. — When the nominatives are of different persons, the first person is preferred to the second, and the second to the third. In other words, / and you, I and he, are sylleptically the same as we; you and he the same as ye. This... | |
 | Robert Simson (master of Colebrooke house acad, Islington.) - 1838 - 206 pages
...put in the plural numher. When the nominatives are of different persons, which person is preferred ? The first person is preferred to the second, and the second to the third ; in other words, / and you, I and he, are the same as we ; you and he the same as ye. Do we place... | |
 | William Cramp - English language - 1838 - 276 pages
...Mr. Cobbett's ignorance of the principles of grammar that caused him to condemn this construction. The first person is preferred to the second, and the second to the third, because the first person plural can represent the three persons singular, and the second person plural... | |
 | Brandon Turner - 1840 - 258 pages
...has attended the government." — Junius. OBSERVATIONS ON RITLE VII. OBs. 1. — When the antecedents are of different persons, the first person is preferred to the second, and the second to the third: as, "John and I are attached to our country." — " John and you are attached to your country." OBs.... | |
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When the antecedents are of different persons, the first person is preferred to the second, and the second to the third ; as, "John, and thou, and I, are attached to our country. 
