Part 32 (1/2)
An Interrogative combined with a Personal pronoun, asks a question without the intervention of the Substantive verb; as, co mise? _who [am] I?_ co iad na daoine sin? _who [are] those men?_ cia i a' cheud aithne? _which [is]
the first coations of this form, the noun is sometimes preceded by the Personal pronoun, and sometimes not; as, co e am fear? _who [is] the man?_ co am fear? _what man?_ Co am fear? is evidently an incolish The ellipsis may be supplied thus; co e am fear a ta thu ciallachadh? _who is the ed into another coative is immediately followed by the Relative; as, co a ta thu ciallachadh? _who [is he] whom you mean?_ ciod a ta thu faicinn?
_what [is it] that you see?_
In an interrogative sentence including a Personal pronoun and a Noun, as, co e anification by some other words connected with it, such as the Article, an Adjective, another Noun in the Genitive, or a relative clause, then the pronoun usually follows the Gender of the Noun, or the sex of the object signified by the Noun, if the Gender does not correspond to it; as, co _e_ am fear a theid a suas? _who is the man that shall ascend?_ co _i_ am boirionnach sin? _who is that woman?_ cia _i_ a' cheud aithne? _which is the first commandment?_ If the Noun be not _so restricted_, the pronoun is of the ender; as, ciod e uchdh? _what is prayer?_[101]
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SECTION IV
OF THE AGREEMENT OF A VERB WITH ITS NOMINATIVE
As the Verb has no variation of _for to the Person or Number of its Nominative, the connection between a Verb and its Nominative can be marked only by its _collocation_ Little variety therefore is allowed in this respect The Nominative, whether Noun or pronoun, is ordinarily placed after the Verb; as, ta adh duine-cloinne _a man-child is born_[102] The Article or an Adjective, is frequently {150} placed between the Verb and its No an uair, _the hour is coeul, _many an evil tale will be told_
Sometimes, but more rarely, circumstances are expressed beween the Verb and its Noh, ann ahear, _there is born to us, this day, in David's town, the Saviour_
The word denoting the object of the verbal action, can never, even in poetry, be placed between the Verb and its Noees is incorrect:--Ghabh doar_ ”Buch Gael
Poehabh iad domblas, &c Do chual e 'n cruinne-ce, _the world heard it_, id p 15, ought to have been, do chual an cruinne-ce e So also, do ghabh truaighe, Iosa dhoibh, _Jesus took pity {151} on thehabh Iosa truaighe, &c[103]
The Relatives a _who_, nach _who not_, are always put before the verb; as, am fear a thuit, _the man who fell_; am fear nach dean beud, _the man ill not commit a fault_
In poetry, or poetical style, where inversion is allowed, the Nominative is sometimes placed before the Verb; as doimhneachd na talmhain ta 'n a laimh, _in his hand is the depth of the earth_ Psal xcv 4
Oigh cha tig le clar 'n an coin with harp will come to meet theach coire, 's gach eas, Bheir a' rove, each dell, and each water-fall, will bring to my remembrance the foru brath, A bheir dearrsa u tuath
_That day shall never co the sun-beaeilleaheill
_In words I yield to Morla;
II 203 This inversion is never admitted into plain discourse or unimpassioned narrative
In those Persons of the Verb in which the terminations supply the place of the Personal pronouns, no No with the Verb In all the other Persons of the Verb, a Noun or a pronoun is commonly expressed as its Nominative In sentences of a poetical structure, the Noh rarely, oheibh, cha 'n fhaigh 'nuair 's aill, _the et when [he] wishes_
A Gharna, cuim a sheas? a Ghuill, cuim a thuit?
_Garno, why stoodst? Gaul, why didst fall?_ Smith's ”Ant Gal Poems,” p 153
The Infinitive often takes before it the Noent; in which case the Preposition _do_ is either expressed or understood before the Infinitive; as, feuch, cia meud a mhaith, braithre do bhi 'n an coood it is, that brethren dwell in peace!_ Psal cxxxiii, 1 Is e mi dh' fhantuinn 's an fheoil, a 's feu in the flesh is more needful for you_, Phil i 24, Cha n'eil e ious a fhrithealadh do bhordaibh, _it is not meet that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables_, Acts vi 2 The Preposition _do_, being softened as usual into _a_, readily disappears after a Vowel; as, air son ain present with you_, Phil i 26[104]
SECTION V