The Grammar of English Grammars, page 620 by Gould Brown
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Charles Bucke, in his work misnamed "A Classical Grammar of the English Language," published in London in 1829, asserts, that, "Substantives in English do not vary their terminations;" yet he gives them four cases; "the nominative, the genitive, the accusative, and the vocative." So did Allen, in a grammar much more classical, dated, London, 1813. Hazen, in 1842, adopted "four cases; namely, the nominative, the possessive, the objective, and the independent."--_Hazen's Practical Gram._, p. 35. Mulligan, since, has chosen these four: "Nominative, Genitive, Dative, Accusative."--_Structure of E. Lang._, p. 185. And yet his case after to or for is not "dative," but "_accusative!_"-- _Ib._, p. 239. So too, Goodenow, of Maine, makes the cases four: "the subjective,[164] the possessive, the objective, and the absolute."--_Text-Book_, p. 31. Goldsbury, of Cambridge, has also four: "the Nominative, the Possessive, the Objective, and the Vocative."--_Com. S. Gram._, p. 13. Three other recent grammarians,--Wells, of Andover,-- Weld, of Portland,--and Clark, of Bloomfield, N. Y.,--also adopt "four cases;--the nominative, the possessive, the objective, and the independent."--_Wells's Gram._, p. 57; _Weld's_, 60; _Clark's_, 49. The first of these gentlemen argues, that, "Since a noun or pronoun, used independently, cannot at the same time be employed as 'the subject of a verb,' there is a manifest impropriety in regarding it as a nominative." It might as well be urged, that a nominative after a verb, or in apposition with an other, is, for this reason, not a nominative. He also cites this argument: "'Is there not as much difference between the nominative and [the] independent case, as there is between the nominative and [the] _objective?_ If so, why class them together as one case?'--_S. R. Hall_."--_Wells's School Gram._, p. 51. To this I