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IMPROPRIETIES FOR CORRECTION.

FALSE SYNTAX UNDER RULE II.

THE SUBJECT OF A FINITE VERB.

"The whole need not a physician, but them that are sick."--Bunyan's Law and Gr., p. iv.

[FORMULE.--Not proper, because the objective pronoun them is here made the subject of the verb need, understood. But, according to Rule 2d, "A noun or a pronoun which is the subject of a finite verb, must be in the nominative case." Therefore, them should be they; thus, "The whole need not a physician, but they that are sick."]

"He will in no wise cast out whomsoever cometh unto him."--Robert Hall "He feared the enemy might fall upon his men, whom he saw were off their guard."--Hutchinson's Massachusetts, ii, 133. "Whomsoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain."--Dymond's Essays, p. 48. "The idea's of the author have been conversant with the faults of other writers."--Swift's T. T., p. 55. "You are a much greater loser than me by his death."--Swift to Pope, l. 63. "Such peccadillo's pass with him for pious frauds."--Barclay's Works, Vol. iii, p. 279. "In whom I am nearly concerned, and whom I know would be very apt to justify my whole procedure."--Ib., i, 560. "Do not think such a man as me contemptible for my garb."--Addison. "His wealth and him bid adieu to each other."--Priestley's Gram., p. 107. "So that, 'He is greater than me,' will be more grammatical than, 'He is greater than I.'"--Ib., p. 106. "The Jesuits had more interests at court than him."--SMOLLETT: in ''Pr. Gram., p. 106.[343] "Tell the Cardinal that I understand poetry better than him."--Id., ib. "An inhabitant of Crim Tartary was far more happy than him."--Id., ib. "My father and him have been very intimate since."--Fair American'', ii, 53. "Who was the agent, and whom the object struck or kissed?"--Infant School Gram., p. 32. "To find the person whom he imagined was concealed there."--Kirkham's Elocution, p. 225. "He offered a great recompense to whomsoever would help him."--HUME: in ''Pr. Gram.'', p. 104. "They would be under the dominion, absolute and unlimited, of whomsoever might exercise the right of judgement."--Gov. Haynes's Speech, in 1832. "They had promised to accept whomsoever should be born in Wales."--Stories by Croker. "We sorrow not as them that have no hope."--Maturin's Sermons, p. 27. "If he suffers, he suffers as them that have no hope."--Ib., p. 32. "We acknowledge that he, and him only, hath been our peacemaker."--Gratton. "And what can be better than him that made it?"--Jenks's Prayers, p. 329. "None of his school-fellows is more beloved than him."--Cooper's Gram., p. 42. "Solomon, who was wiser than them all."--Watson's Apology, p. 76. "Those whom the Jews thought were the last to be saved, first entered the kingdom of God."--Eleventh Hour, Tract, No. 4. "A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both."--Prov., xxvii, 3. "A man of business, in good company, is hardly more insupportable than her they call a notable woman."--Steele, Sped. "The king of the Sarmatians, whom we may imagine was no small prince, restored him a hundred thousand Roman prisoners."--Life of Antoninus, p. 83. "Such notions would be avowed at this time by none but rosicrucians, and fanatics as mad as them."--''Bolingbroke's Ph. Tr.'', p. 24. "Unless, as I said, Messieurs, you are the masters, and not me."--BASIL HALL: Harrison's E. Lang., p. 173. "We had drawn up against peaceable travellers, who must have been as glad as us to escape."--BURNES'S TRAVELS: ibid. "Stimulated, in turn, by their approbation, and that of better judges than them, she turned to their literature with redoubled energy."--QUARTERLY REVIEW: Life of H. More: ibid. "I know not whom else are expected."--SCOTT'S PIRATE: ibid. "He is great, but truth is greater than us all."--Horace Mann, in Congress, 1850. "Him I accuse has entered."--Fowler's E. Gram., §482: see Shakspeare's Coriolanus, Act V, sc. 5.  "Scotland and thee did each in other live." --Dryden's Po., Vol. ii, p. 220.

"We are alone; here's none but thee and I." --Shak., 2 Hen. VI.

"Me rather had, my heart might feel your love,   Than my unpleas'd eye see your courtesy." --''Idem: Joh. Dict.''

"Tell me, in sadness, whom is she you love?" --Id., Romeo and Juliet, A. I, sc. 1.

"Better leave undone, than by our deeds acquire   Too high a fame, when him we serve's away." --''Shak., Ant. and Cleop.''

RULE III.--APPOSITION.

A Noun or a personal Pronoun used to explain a preceding noun or pronoun, is put, by apposition, in the same case: as, "But it is really I, your old friend and neighbour., Piso, late a dweller upon the Coelian hill, who am now basking in the warm skies of Palmyra."--Zenobia. "But he, our gracious Master, kind as just,   Knowing our frame, remembers we are dust."--Barbauld.