In other languages the verb is inflected into a multitude of forms, expressive of voice (active and passive), person, number and time of action. In English the variations of form in the verb are very few. There is no passive voice. The English has but one passive verb; the obsolete _hight_, which means, is called. As to time, there are only the forms of present and perfect, e. g., _love_ and _loved_; as to person and number, inflections only in the present tense, e. g., _love_, _lovest_, _loves_; and of these one, _lovest_, is obsolete, or very obsolescent. To these inflected forms there is to be added only the present or indefinite participle _loving_. Beyond this there are in English, by way of inflection, only the cases of the pronouns, e. g., _he_, _his_, _him_, _who_, _whose_, _whom_, _etc._ And it is here to be remarked that almost all the questions of “good grammar” and “bad grammar” that arise in English relate to the use of pronouns. (For surely we may leave out of consideration here the difficulties of those who say _I see_ or _I seen him_, for _I saw him_, or _I have went_ for _I have gone_, and the like.) Here, therefore, we have set forth, although very succinctly, the distinctive grammatical position of the English language. That position is briefly this: In English words have (with the few exceptions mentioned above) but one form; and as grammar is concerned only with the formal relations of words in the sentence, English has no grammar. Among languages it is the grammarless tongue.