sign should be annexed to the first only; as, "I left the parcel at Smith's, the bookseller and stationer."

False Syntax.

I gave my book to James my cousin, he who was here yesterday.

This horse belongs to Samuel, the carpenter, he who built the house.

Augustus, the Roman emperor, him who succeeded Julius Cesar, is variously described.

These books are my friend's, him who keeps the library.

The estate was left to Simon and John, the two eldest sons, they that had been to Europe. Art thou acquainted with Clarissa, the milliner, she whom we met in our walk this morning?

I am going to see my friends in the country, they that we met at the ferry.

Resolve me, why the cottager and king,
Him whom sea-sever'd realms obey, and him
Who steals his whole dominion from the
waste,

Repelling winter blasts with mud and straw,
Disquieted alike, draw sigh for sigh.

NOTE.

This was the Apostle's Paul's advice.

This palace had been the grand Sultan's Mahomet's. The cloth was purchased at Wilson the store keeper's.

He sold the hides at Harper's, the tanner's and currier's.

RULE 14.

When a noun or pronoun is addressed in the second person, or connected with a participle as its subject, without dependence on the rest of the sentence, it must be in the nominative case.

False Syntax.

Him having ended his discourse, the assembly dispersed.

Them being willing to improve, the study was rendered agreeable.

Her being absent, the business was attended to by others.

They all had liberty to go, us only excepted.

The sun's having risen, it became very

warm.

They were all more or less censurable, her only excepted, who was very circumspect in her conduct.

Thee having been unwatchful, the work is rendered more difficult.

RULE 15.

A verb of the imperfect tense must not be connected with an auxiliary; and the perfect or passive participle must not be used instead of the imperfect tense.

When several verbs follow one another, having the same nominative, the auxiliary is frequently omitted after the first through an ellipsis, and understood to the rest; as, "He has gone and left me;" that is,

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"He has gone, and has left me." Sometimes the auxiliary is used alone, and the principal verb omitted through an ellipsis; as, "We succeeded, but they did not;" that is, "did not succeed." "They must and shall be rewarded;" that is, "They must be rewarded, and," &c.

NOTE. The meaning of a passive or neuter verb, should not be expressed by an active verb, nor that of an active verb, by a neuter or passive form.

The following examples are improper in this respect; "He laid by the fire all night." Laid is an active verb, used to express a condition of being; it should be lay. “What regal vestments can with them compare;" """be compared." "He was entered into the connexion," "had entered." "The house is to build," "to be built."

False Syntax.

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If some events had not fell out very unexpectedly, I should have been present.

He soon begun to be weary of having nothing to do.

I was in London a year, and seen the king last

summer.

He writes as the best authors would have wrote on the same subject.

He would have went with us if we had asked · him.

They have chose the part of honour and virtue.

The house was shook by the violence of the

storin.

He had wrote and read much on the subject.
I seen my
old friend last week.

They who have bore a part in the labour, shall share the reward.

By too eager a pursuit, he run a great risk of being disappointed.

When the rules have been wantonly broke, there can be no plea for favour.

He would not have went, if he had known it. You who have forsook your friends, are enitled to no confidence.

NOTE.

And he went and laid down to rest.
He laid by the fire all night.

What regal vestments can with them compare.
After the storm was ceased we set forward,

RULE 16.

A transitive verb, or its active, or compound perfect participle, governs the noun or pronoun which is its object, in the objective case: as, "I praise him." "On seeing them, we rejoiced."

A transitive verb often has for its object a phrase consisting of several words; as, "He said James and John were present at the transaction."

The object of a transitive verb is frequently omitted through an ellipsis; as, "I love and fear him;" that is, "I love him, and I fear him." "This is the man they love;" "whom they love."

NOTE. An intransitive verb, or its participle, should not have a noun or pronoun after it as the object thereof; as, "He afterwards repented him of his folly;" him should be omitted after the intransitive verb repented.

False Syntax.

He that is idle and mischievous, reprove sharply.

You are displeased with me for admonishng ye.

He invited my brother and I to see his garden If he will not hear his best friend, who shall we send to admonish him?

They who have laboured to make us wise and good, are the persons who we ought particularly to love and respect.

Whatever others do, let thou and I perform our duty.

Who did they send on that, important embassy?

Ye, who were dead, hath he quickened.

He and they we know, but who are you? We should love, fear, and obey the Author of our being, even He who has power to reward or punish us for ever.

Thou only have I chosen.

They that honour me I will honour.

NOTE.

Being weary he sat him down.

Good keeping thrives the herd.

Go, flee thee away into the land of Judah.

RULE 17.

Neuter verbs and their participles, followed by a noun or pronoun, must have the same case after, as before them; as, "He is the man; or, I took it to be him."