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166 ENGLISH GRAlIIlIIAR.
[Respectiu,; the nominativc or subject, see (493). This rule, find the
"reeinl rules under it, apply to an iufin;tive mood or clausc of a sentence,
\\,1"'11 the subject uf a ycrb (71;2), aq well as to nouns and pronouns.)
RrCMAnK.-fmpcrsollul verbs (5211) are always h the third person .ingn­
Jar; n~, "It hails," "it rains," &c. Such expr~~sionB as "it appears," " it
seems," "it hl!l'jl~ns," and the like. sometimea called impersonal verbe,
ure reilly personal, h.wing for their subject lin infillitive mood or sub·
stantive phl'll5e fullowing', to whieh "it" preceding refers; liS, .. It appeaTl:
that the !'i,'Ct· is ri"ing."-'· It seems to be so." See 246, 4. So 11180, in
tlte expression asfollows, a~ concerns, as appears, and the like, the vet'b
is not imper"lll."ll; but whether singlllar or plural, refers to a subject
und~r,t,,().l; :10, " The ea: