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case. Mac Curtin has given them, but as the Dative and Ablative 

 cases pf the Personal and Possessive Pronouns, which are coalesced 

 with their several prepositions. Mac Curtin has not, however, ex- 

 plained them so fully as in the present grammar, nor did he make a 

 separate class of them. Next, Personals are treated of. 



The 10th chapter treats of the increase of the Pronoun with 

 Rules where and when the encrease should take place. 



The 1 1 th chapter treats of the Relatives. 



The 1 2th chapter, of the Pronominal articles. 



The 13th chapter treats of the Verb, of which it is stated that there 

 are five kinds, viz. active, passive, impersonal, auxiliary and neuter. 

 Its accidents are Person, Number, Tense and Mood. The Persons 

 are three, as in the Pronouns ; — the Numbers two ; — ^Tenses three, 

 i. e. Present, Past and Future ; and the Moods two only, viz. 

 the Indicative and the Imperative, as in the Hebrew. In this asser- 

 tion, concerning the Moods I dissent from him ; because his prac- 

 tice is contrary to his position ; for he uses other moods in con- 

 jugation, but chiefly, because other moods are essential to the lan- 

 guage to express the volitions and perceptions of the soul. — He 

 gives the conjugation of the auxiliary verb b^X) be, and treats of 

 other auxiliary impersonal verbs with much skill and acuteness. 



The 14th chapter treats of Auxiliary Verbs in a more copious 

 manner than any of the former Grammars. 



The 15th chapter treats of the Impersonal Verbs. — He has the cre- 

 dit of being the first Grammarian that has treated of these in a satisfac- 

 tory manner, although they are confessedly the most difficult part of 

 our language, and the description given of them by O'MoUoy, Lluyd 

 and Mac Curtin, though the first and latter were natives, was discou- 

 couraging to learners. In the present Grammar the author assures 

 us, and truly so, that " they are not so numerous or more difficult 

 than those of the Latin, French or English." Having conjugated 



