ENGLISH.
Lord.
Singular.
Nom. lord,
Pos. lord-'s,
Obj. lord;
Plural.
Nom. lord-s,
Pos. lord-s',
Obj. lord-s.]
and one from the Latin, the parent of the Norman-French, in order that you may see how cases and the inflections to mark them have been dropped in English. In English, prepositions have largely taken the place of case forms, and it is thought that by them our language can express the many relations of nouns to other words in the sentence better than other languages can by their cumbrous machinery of inflection.
+DEFINITIONS+.
+Person is that modification of a noun or pronoun which denotes the speaker, the one spoken to, or the one spoken of+.
+The First Person denotes the one speaking+.
+The Second Person denotes the one spoken to+.
+The Third Person denotes the one spoken of+.
A noun is said to be of the first person when joined as an explanatory modifier to a pronoun of the first person; as, I, John, saw these things; We Americans are always in a hurry. [Footnote: It is doubtful whether a noun is ever of the first person. It may be said that, in the sentence I, John, saw these things, John speaks of his own name, the expression meaning, I, and my name is John, etc.]
A noun is of the second person when used as explanatory of a pronoun of the second person, or when used independently as a term of address; as, Ye crags and peaks; Idle time, John, is ruinous.
+Direction+.—Compose sentences in which there shall be two examples of nouns and two of pronouns used in each of the three persons.