2. Direct object of a transitive verb ([§ 99]): as,—

I will find you.

3. Indirect object of a transitive verb ([§ 105]): as,—

He gave me a dollar.

4. Subject of an infinitive (see [§ 325]).

Note. In poetry the objective me is sometimes used in exclamations: as,—“Me miserable!” (Milton).

In methinks and meseems (“it seems to me”), me is a remnant of the old dative, as in the indirect object (see [§ 107]).

The compounds thereof, therewith, therefrom, etc., are equivalent to of it, with it, from it, etc.: as,—“Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof” (Leviticus xxv. 10).

For the impersonal it as cognate object, see [§ 120].

THE SELF-PRONOUNS (COMPOUND PERSONAL PRONOUNS)