the grammar of english grammars: sentences, articles, and cases

A Sentence is an assemblage of words, making complete sense, and always containing a nominative and a verb; as, ＂Reward sweetens labour.＂

The principal parts of a sentence are usually three; namely, the SUBJECT, or nominative, -the attribute, or finite VERB, -and the case put after, or the OBJECT governed by the verb: as, ＂Crimes deserve punishment.＂

Articles relate to the nouns which they limit: as, ＂At a little distance from the ruins of the abbey, stands an aged elm.＂ ＂See the blind beggar dance, the cripple sing, The sot a hero, lunatic a king.＂

A Noun or a Pronoun which is the subject of a finite verb, must be in the nominative case: as, ＂The Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things; and they derided him.＂-Luke, xvi, 14. ＂But where the meekness of self-knowledge veileth the front of self-respect, there look thou for the man whom none can know but they will honour.＂-Book of Thoughts.