Chapter LXXXVIII: Part III: , p. 68. "The term Substantive is derived from substare, to

_stand_, to _distinguish it_ from an adjective, which cannot, like the noun, stand alone."--_Hiley's Gram._, p. 11. "They have two numbers, _like nouns_, the singular and plural; and three persons in each number, namely, _I_, the first person, represents the speaker. _Thou_, the second person, represents the person spoken to. _He, she, it_, the third person, represents the person or thing spoken of."--_Ib._, p. 23. "_He, She, It_, is the Third Person singular; but _he with others, she with others_, or _it with others_, make each of them _they_, which is the Third Person plural."--_White, on the English Verb_, p. 97. "The words _had I been_, that is, the Third Past Tense of the Verb, marks the Supposition, as referring itself, not to the Present, but to some former period of time."--_Ib._, p. 88. "A pronoun is a word used instead of a noun, to avoid a too frequent repetition of the same word."--_Frazee's Improved Gram._, p. 122.

"That which he cannot use, and dare not show,
And would not give--why longer should he owe?"--_Crabbe_.