UNDER NOTE II.—OF FALSE IDENTIFICATION.
"But popular, he observes, is an ambiguous word."—Blair cor. "The infinitive mood, a phrase, or a sentence, is often made the subject of a verb."—Murray cor. "When any person, in speaking, introduces his name after the pronoun I, it is of the first person; as, 'I, James, of the city of Boston.'"—R. C. Smith cor. "The name of the person spoken to, is of the second person; as, 'James, come to me.'"—Id. "The name of the person or thing merely spoken of, or about, is of the third person; as, 'James has come.'"—Id. "The passive verb has no object, because its subject or nominative always represents what is acted upon, and the object of a verb must needs be in the objective case."—Id. "When a noun is in the nominative to an active verb, it denotes the actor."—Kirkham cor. "And the pronoun THOU or YE, standing for the name of the person or persons commanded, is its nominative."—Ingersoll cor. "The first person is that which denotes the speaker."—Brown's Institutes, p. 32. "The conjugation of a verb is a regular arrangement of its different variations or inflections throughout the moods and tenses."—Wright cor. "The first person is that which denotes the speaker or writer."—G. BROWN: for the correction of Parker and Fox, Hiley, and Sanborn. "The second person is that which denotes the hearer, or the person addressed."—Id.: for the same. "The third person is that which denotes the person or thing merely spoken of."—Id.: for the same, "I is of the first person, singular; WE, of the first person, plural."—Mur. et al. cor. "THOU is of the second person, singular; YE or You, of the second person, plural."—Iid. "HE, SHE, or IT, is of the third person, singular; THEY, of the third person, plural."—Iid. "The nominative case denotes the actor, and is the subject of the verb."—Kirkham cor. "John is the actor, therefore the noun JOHN is in the nominative case."—Id. "The actor is always expressed by the nominative case, unless the verb be passive."—R. C. Smith cor. "The nominative case does not always denote an agent or actor."—Mack cor. "In mentioning each name, tell the part of speech."—John Flint cor. "Of what number is boy? Why?"—Id. "Of what number is pens? Why?"—Id. "The speaker is denoted by the first person; the person spoken to is denoted by the second person; and the person or thing spoken of is denoted by the third person."—Id. "What nouns are of the masculine gender? The names of all males are of the masculine gender."—Id. "An interjection is a word that is uttered merely to indicate some strong or sudden emotion of the mind."—G. Brown's Grammars.
CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE VII; OF OBJECTIVES.
UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.—OF THE OBJECTIVE IN FORM.
"But I do not remember whom they were for."—Abbott cor. "But if you can't help it, whom do you complain of?"—Collier cor. "Whom was it from? and what was it about?"—M. Edgeworth cor. "I have plenty of victuals, and, between you and me, something in a corner."—Day cor. "The upper one, whom I am now about to speak of."—Leigh Hunt cor. "And to poor us, thy enmity is most capital."—Shak. cor. "Which, thou dost confess, 'twere fit for thee to use, as them to claim." That is,—"as for them to claim."—Id. "To beg of thee, it is my more dishonour, than thee of them." That is,—"than for thee to beg of them."—Id. "There are still a few, who, like thee and me, drink nothing but water."—Gil Bias cor. "Thus, 'I shall fall,'—'Thou shalt love thy neighbour,'—'He shall be rewarded,'—express no resolution on the part of me, thee, or him." Or better:—"on the part of the persons signified by the nominatives, I, Thou, He."—Lennie and Bullions cor. "So saucy with the hand of her here—what's her name?"—Shak. cor. "All debts are cleared between you and me."—Id. "Her price is paid, and she is sold like thee."—HARRISON'S E. Lang., p. 172. "Search through all the most flourishing eras of Greece."—Dr. Brown cor. "The family of the Rudolphs has been long distinguished."—The Friend cor. "It will do well enough for you and me."—Edgeworth cor. "The public will soon discriminate between him who is the sycophant, and him who is the teacher."—Chazotte cor. "We are still much at a loss to determine whom civil power belongs to."—Locke cor. "What do you call it? and to whom does it belong?"—Collier cor. "He had received no lessons from the Socrateses, the Platoes, and the Confuciuses of the age."—Haller cor. "I cannot tell whom to compare them to."—Bunyan cor. "I see there was some resemblance betwixt this good man and me."—Id. "They, by those means, have brought themselves into the hands and house of I do not know whom."—Id. "But at length she said, there was a great deal of difference between Mr. Cotton and us."—Hutch. Hist. cor. "So you must ride on horseback after us."—Mrs. Gilpin cor. "A separation must soon take place between our minister and me,"—Werter cor. "When she exclaimed on Hastings, you, and me."—Shak. cor. "To whom? to thee? What art thou?"—Id. "That they should always bear the certain marks of him from whom they came."—Bp. Butler cor.
"This life has joys for you and me,
And joys that riches ne'er could buy."—Burns cor.
UNDER THE NOTE.—OF TIME OR MEASURE.
"Such as almost every child, ten years old, knows."—Town cor. "Four months' schooling will carry any industrious scholar, of ten or twelve years of age, completely through this book."—Id. "A boy of six years of age may be taught to speak as correctly, as Cicero did before the Roman senate."—Webster cor. "A lad about twelve years old, who was taken captive by the Indians."—Id. "Of nothing else than that individual white figure of five inches in length, which is before him."—Campbell cor. "Where lies the fault, that boys of eight or ten years of age are with great difficulty made to understand any of its principles?"—Guy cor. "Where language three centuries old is employed."—Booth cor. "Let a gallows be made, of fifty cubits in height." Or: "Let a gallows fifty cubits high be made."—Bible cor. "I say to this child, nine years old, 'Bring me that hat.' He hastens, and brings it me."—Osborn cor. "'He laid a floor, twelve feet long, and nine feet wide:' that is, the floor was long to the extent of twelve feet, and wide to the extent of nine feet."—Merchant cor. "The Goulah people are a tribe of about fifty thousand in strength." Or: "The Goulah people are a tribe about fifty thousand strong."—Examiner cor.
CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE VIII; NOM. ABSOLUTE.
"He having ended his discourse, the assembly dispersed."—Inst. of E. G., p. 190. "I being young, they deceived me."—Ib., p. 279. "They refusing to comply, I withdrew."—Ib. "Thou being present, he would not tell what he knew."—Ib. "The child is lost; and I, whither shall I go?"—Ib. "O happy we! surrounded with so many blessings."—Ib. "'Thou too! Brutus, my son!' cried Cæsar, overcome."—Ib. "Thou! Maria! and so late! and who is thy companion?"—Mirror cor. "How swiftly our time passes away! and ah! we, how little concerned to improve it!"—Greenleaf's False Syntax, Gram., p. 47.