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”Eyes a row Die, but woe!”

OBS 10--After verbs of _giving, paying, procuring_, and some others, there is usually an ellipsis of _to_ or _for_ before the objective of the person; as, ”Give [_to_] _him_ water to drink”--”Buy [_for_] _es” So in the excla, ”Wo is _to_ me!” This ellipsis occurs chiefly before the personal pronouns, and before such nouns as come between the verb and its direct object; as, ”Whosoever killeth you, will think that he doeth [_to_]

_God_ service”--_John_, xvi, 2 ”Who brought [_to_] her _”--_Acts_, xvi, 16 ”Because he gave not [_to_] _God_ the glory”--_Ib_, xii, 23 ”Give [_to_] _me_ leave to allow [_to_]

_myself_ no respite from labour”--_Spect_, No 454 ”And the sons of Joseph, which were born [_to_] _hiypt, were two souls”--_Gen_, xlvi, 27 This elliptical construction of a few objectives, is what remains to us of the ancient Saxon dative case If the order of the words be changed, the preposition must be inserted; as, ”Pray do my service _to_ his ra_, and _soovern two objectives,” (_Wells_, --215,) I have, under a preceding rule, discountenanced; preferring the supposition, which appears to have greater weight of authority, as well as stronger support froovernment, a preposition is, in fact, understood Upon this question of ellipsis, depends, in all such instances, ourone of the objective words

OBS 11--In _dates_, as they are usually written, there is much abbreviation; and several nouns of place and time are set down in the objective case, without the prepositions which govern them: as, ”New York, Wednesday, 20th October, 1830”--_Journal of Literary Convention_ That is, ”_At_ New York, _on_ Wednesday, _the_ 20th _day of_ October, _in the year_ 1830”

NOTE TO RULE VII

An objective noun of time or measure, if it qualifies a subsequent adjective,noun; as, ”To an infant _of_ only two or three years _old_”--_Dr Wayland_ Expunge _of_, or for _old_ write _of age_ The following is right: ”The vast ar_, covered the level plain of Esdraelon”--_Milman's Jews_, Vol i, p 159 See Obs 6th above

IMPROPRIETIES FOR CORRECTION

FALSE SYNTAX UNDER RULE VII UNDER THE RULE ITSELF--OF THE OBJECTIVE IN FORM

”But I do not remember who they were for”--_Abbott's Teacher_, p 265

[FORMULE--Not proper, because the pronoun _who_ is in the nominative case, and isto Rule 7th, ”A noun or a pronoun overned by it in the objective case” Therefore, _who_ should be _whom_; thus, ”But I do not remember _whom_ they were for”]

”But if you can't help it, who do you complain of?”--_Collier's Antoninus_, p 137 ”Who was it froeworth's Frank_, p

72 ”I have plenty of victuals, and, between you and I, so in a corner”--_Day's Sandford and Merton_ ”The upper one, who I am now about to speak of”--_Hunt's Byron_, p 311 ”And to poor we, thine enmity's most capital”--_Beauties of Shakspeare_, p 201 ”Which thou dost confess, were fit for thee to use, as they to clai of thee, it is my more dishonour, than thou of them”--_Ib_, p 197 ”There are still a feho, like thou and I, drink nothing but water”--_Gil Blas_, Vol i, p 104 ”Thus, I _shall_ fall; Thou _shalt_ love thy neighbour; He _shall_ be rewarded, express no resolution on the part of _I, thou, he_”--_Lennie's E Gram_, p 22; _Bullions's_, 32 ”So saucy with the hand of she here--What's her name?”--_Shak, Ant and Cleop_, Act iii, Sc

11 ”All debts are cleared between you and I”--_Id, Merchant of Venice_, Act iii, Sc 2 ”Her price is paid, and she is sold like thou”--_Milh all theera's of Greece”--_Brown's Esti distinguished”--_The Friend_, Vol v, p 54 ”It will do well enough for you and I”--_Castle Rackrent_, p 120 ”The public will soon discriminate between him who is the sycophant, and he who is the teacher”--_Chazotte's Essay_, p 10 ”We are still s to”--_Locke_ ”What do you call it? and who does it belong to?”--_Collier's Cebes_ ”He had received no lessons froe”--_Hatter's Letters_ ”I cannot tell who to compare them to”--_Bunyan's P P_, p

128 ”I see there was soress_, p 298 ”They by that ht themselves into the hands and house of I do not knoho”--_Ib_, p 196

”But at length she said there was a great deal of difference between Mr

Cotton and we”--_Hutchinson's Mass_, ii, 430 ”So you must ride on horseback after we” [370]--MRS GILPIN: _Cowper_, i, 275 ”A separation must soon take place between our minister and I”--_Werter_, p 109 ”When she exclais, you, and I”--_Shakspeare_ ”To who? to thee?

What art thou?”--_Id_ ”That they should always bear the certain y_, p 221

”This life has joys for you and I, And joys that riches ne'er could buy”--_Burns_

UNDER THE NOTE--OF TIME OR MEASURE

”Such as almost every child of ten years old knows”--_Town's analysis_, p

4 ”One winter's school of four months, will carry any industrious scholar, of ten or twelve years old, coh this book”--_Ib_, p 12

”A boy of six years old ht to speak as correctly, as Cicero did before the Roman Senate”--_Webster's Essays_, p 27 ”A lad of about twelve years old, as taken captive by the Indians”--_Ib_, p 235

”Of nothing else but that individual white figure of five inches long which is before him”--_Campbell's Rhet_, p 288 ”Where lies the fault, that boys of eight or ten years old, are with great difficulty made to understand any of its principles”--_Guy's Grae of three centuries old is eallows be h”--_Esther_, v 14 ”I say to this child of nine years old bring s it , and nine feet wide; that is, over the extent _of_ twelve feet long, and _of_ nine feet wide”--_Merchants School Gram_, p 95 ”The Goulah people are a tribe of about fifty thousand strong”--_Examiner_, No 71 RULE VIII--NOM ABSOLUTE

A Noun or a pronoun is put absolute in the nominative, when its case depends on no other word: as, _”He failing, who shall meet success?”_--”Your _fathers_, where are they? and the _prophets_, do they live forever?”--_Zech_, i, 5 ”Or _I_ only and _Barnabas_, have not er to forbear working?”--_1 Cor_, ix, 6 ”Nay but, O ainst God?”--_Rom_, ix, 20 ”O rare _we!_”--_Cowper_

”Miserable _they!_”--_Thomson_

”The _hour_ conceal'd, and so re near”--_Pope_