PERSON AND NUMBER.
235. The English verb has never had full inflections for number and
person, as the classical languages have.
When the older pronoun _thou_ was in use, there was a form of the verb to correspond to it, or agree with it, as,
"Thou walk_est_," present;
"Thou walked_st_," past;
also, in the third person singular, a form ending in -_eth_, as,
"It is not in man that walk_eth_, to direct his steps."
But in ordinary English of the present day there is practically only
one ending for person and number. This is the third person, singular
number; as, "He walk_s_;" and this only in the present tense
indicative. This is important in questions of agreement when we come to syntax.
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