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A GRAMMAR OF THE

tion : so, p W K do teli me the name of this; U

9 O OC

go home ; *3 neither seen (with) eyes nor

heard (with) ears; (ow) the bank {of) the Ganges;

- ^

(m) « good manner; ^ ^ (at the abocle)

ofhim were two daaghters, or he had two daughters, an

ellipsis of some word, perhaps occurring in this and

generally in similar sentences. When, moreover, a noun

in the dative case is to be used in the same sentence with

another noun more immediately acted upon by the verb,

the nominative must be adopted for the latter; unless

both words are pronouns, when each may_ be followed by

<jf (j O 9

it.s casual sign : so, ^ £ yu fy p give thou thy

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claughter to my son ; ifyj f ^ ^ I will give him to you;

in which last expression the precedence of the objective
to the dative case may be remarked as, perhaps, neces-
sary in such sentences to prevent ambiguity; but, when
the nominative is substituted for the accusative, as in the
first, it may optionally preccde or followthe dative. And
if two or more words in the same oblique case are used
together, the postposition is commoniy subjoined to the

^ c 9

last only ; as f J^ mines of gold,

silver, copper, iron, &c. and if they are in an oblique case
of the plural, though aconjunction intervenes, the plural