e invisible.
Every person, whatever their station may be, are bound by the laws
of morality and religion.
_Note_ 3. On either side of the river was the tree of life.
Nadab and Abihu took either of them his censer.
RULE XX.
Active-transitive verbs govern the objective case; as, "Cesar conquered
_Pompey_;" "Columbus discovered _America_;" "Truth ennobles _her_."
FALSE SYNTAX.
Ye who were dead, hath he quickened.
_Ye_, in the nominative case, is erroneous, because it is the object of
the action expressed by the transitive verb "hath quickened;" and
therefore it should be _you_, in the objective case. _You_ would then be
governed by "hath quickened," agreeably, to Rule 20. _Active-transitive
verbs govern the objective case_.
Who did they entertain so freely?
They who opulence has made proud, and who luxury has corrupted,
cannot relish the simple pleasures of nature.
He and they we know, but who are ye?
She that is negligent, reprove sharply.
He invited my brother and I to pay him a visit.
Who did they send on that mission?
They who he has most injured, he had the greatest reason to love.
RULE XXI.
The verb _to be_ may have the same case after it as before it; as, "_I_
am the _man_;" "I believe _it_ to have been _them;_" "_He_ is the
_thief_."
NOTE 1. When nouns or pronouns next preceding and following the verb
_to be_, signify the _same thing_, they are _in apposition_, and,
therefore, in the _same case_. Rule 21 is predicated on the
principle contained in Rule 7.
2. The verb _to be_ is often understood; as, "The Lord made _me
man_; He made _him what_ he was;" that is, "The Lord made me _to be_
man; He made him _to be that which_ he was." "They desired me to
call _them brethren_;" i.e. _by the name of_ brethren. "They named
_him John_;" i.e. _by the name of_ John; or, by the _name_ John;
putting these two nouns in _apposition_.
FALSE SYNTAX.
I know it to be they.
Improper, because _it_ is in the objective case before the verb "to be,"
and _they_ is in the nominative after; consequently, Rule 21 is
violated. _They_ is in apposition with _it_, therefore _they_ should be
_them_, in the objective after to be, according to Rule 21. (Repeat the
Rule.)
Be composed, it is me.
I would not act thus, if I were him.
Well may you be afraid; it is him, indeed.
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