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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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