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THE COMIC ENGLISH GRAMMAR.
cedent, the verb always agrees with it: as, "Thou who learnest Syntax." "I who enlighten thy mind."
The objective case of the personal pronouns is by some, for want of better information, employed in the place of these and those: as, "Let them things alone." "Now then, Jemes, make haste with them chops." The adverb there, is sometimes, with additional impropriety, joined to the pronoun them: as, "Look after them there sheep."
The objective case of a pronoun in the first person is put after the interjections Oh! and Ah! as, "Oh! dear me," &c. The second person, however, requires a nominative case: as, "Oh! you good-for-nothing man!" "Ah! thou gay Lothario!"
"Oh! you good-for-nothing man."
