Albert Henry Arden

They liked their epithets and qualifications in the 1890s. Arden is qualified as `Christ's College, Cambridge, Late Fellow of the Madras University, Late lecturer in Telugu and Tamil at the University of Cambridge and for many years Missionary of the C.M.S. in South India, Author of A progressive Telugu grammar. Some of the examples are good: I am in this room, Where were you yesterday? He will be there tomorrow. The workmen are in that house. With regard to the optative mood, page 137, we have the following example: 'When she asked him, Why do you beat me in this way? he replied - 'I beat you, because you do not do one single thing as I tell you'.… (more)