Part 49 (1/2)

1 The king _he_ is just

2 I saw _her_, the queen

3 The _, _his_ crown

Of these forms, the first is more common than the second and third, and the fourth more common than the first

-- 437 The fourth has another eleiven rise to the absurd notion that the genitive case in -'s (_father-'s_) is a contraction fro about the inapplicability of this rule to feenders, and plural nuainst it

1 We cannot reduce _the queen's majesty_ to _the queen his majesty_

2 We cannot reduce _the children's bread_ to _the children his bread_

3 The Anglo-Saxon forms are in -es, not in _his_

4 The word _his_ itselfit to be _he_ + _his_

5 The -s in _father's_ is the -is in _patris_, and the -?? in pat????

-- 438 The preceding examples illustrate an apparent paradox, viz, the fact of pleonas he is just_, dealt with as a _single_ sentence, is undoubtedly pleonastic But it is not necessary to be considered as a _--may represent a first sentence incomplete, whilst _he is just_ represents a second sentence in full What is pleonasle sentence is ellipsis in a double one

CHAPTER V

THE TRUE PERSONAL pronOUNS

-- 439 _Personal pronouns_--The use of the second person plural instead of the second singular has been noticed already This use of one nues A pronoun so used is conveniently called the _pronomen reverentiae_

-- 440 _Dativus ethicus_--In the phrase

Rob me the exchequer,--_Henry IV_,

the _me_ is expletive, and is equivalent to _for me_ This expletive use of the dative is conveniently called the _dativus ethicus_

-- 441 _The reflected personal pronoun_--In the English language there is no equivalent to the Latin _se_, the Ger_

It follows froreater extent than would otherwise be the case

_I strike uous

_Thou strikest thee_ is aard, but not auous; inasmuch as _him_ may mean either the _person who strikes_ or some one else In order to be clear we add the word _self_ when the idea is reflective _He strikes himself_ is, at once idiomatic and unequivocal

So it is with the plural persons