How to Speak and Write Correctly by Joseph Devlin
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"The drift of all his sermons was, to prepare the Jews for the reception of a prophet, mightier than _him_, and whose shoes he was not worthy to bear." Should be than _he_.--Atterbury's _Sermons_. "Phalaris, who was so much older than _her_." Should be _she_.--Bentley's _Dissertation on Phalaris_. "King Charles, and more than _him_, the duke and the Popish faction were at liberty to form new schemes." Should be than _he_.--Bolingbroke's _Dissertations on Parties_. "We contributed a third more than the Dutch, who were obliged to the same proportion more than _us_." Should be than _we_.--Swift's _Conduct of the Allies_. In all the above examples the objective cases of the pronouns have been used while the construction calls for nominative cases. "Let _thou_ and _I_ the battle try"--_Anon_. Here _let_ is the governing verb and requires an objective case after it; therefore instead of _thou_ and _I_, the words should be _you_ (_sing_.) and _me_. "Forever in this humble cell, Let thee and I, my fair one, dwell" --_Prior_. Here _thee_ and _I_ should be the objectives _you_ and _me_. |
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