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Section Ii. of Number and Person.

The Comic English Grammar · Percival Leigh — chapter 17 of 36 · ~102 words · public domain

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Verbs {053}have two numbers, the Singular and the Plural: as, "I fiddle, we fiddle," &c.

In each number there are three persons; as,

SINGULAR. PLURAL.

First Person I love We love.

Second Person Thou lovest Ye or you love.

Third Person He loves They love.

What a deal there is in every Grammar about love! Here the following Lines, by a Young Lady, (now no more,) addressed to Lindley Murray, deserves to be recorded:--

"Oh, Murray! fatal name to me, Thy burning page with tears is wet; Since first 'to love' I learned of thee, Teach me, ah! teach me to forget!'"

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