Relative possessive or objective case; as, Landseer is the Syntax. painter, whose pictures you admired so much; pronoun. I don't know whom she is married to. "Behold the wretch who slugs his life away, Soon swallowed in Disease's sad abyss; While he whom Toil has braced, or manly play, Has light as air each limb, each thought as clear as day." THOMSON. "Praised be the art whose subtle power could stay tive. (6.) The same rules apply to Interrogative Interrogapronouns; as, Who told you so? Whom do "Who is the happy warrior? Who is he Whom every man in arms should wish to be?" WORDSWORTH. English Bible. "Whose image and superscription is this?" VERBS. (1.) A Verb agrees with its subject in number Verbs. and person; as, I am tired; Thou art the man; The box is empty; The birds have flown; We are brethren. "I am that merry wanderer of the night." Midsummer Night's Dream. "The sun is bright; the fields are gay."-WORDSWORTH. "And thou art long, and lank, and brown, As is the ribbed sea-sand."-COLERIDGE. "Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And the most ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong."-WORDSWORTH. I Syntax. Make. Let. Must. Dare. Hear. Bid. See. Feel. Need. Durst. (2.) The latter of two verbs is placed in the infinitive mood, with or without the preposition to; as, I wish to speak; They dare not do so. The following verbs take an infinitive mood. after them without the preposition to:-- Thy groans Did make wolves howl."-Tempest. "Sometimes let gorgeous tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by."-MILTON. "You must have patience, madam.”—Macbeth. "I dare do all that may become a man."-Macbeth. "I heard the owl scream, and the crickets cry." Macbeth. "And Peter answered him and said, Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee on the water."-Matt. xiv. 28. "I saw him beat the surges under him, and ride upon their backs."-Tempest. "I feel the winds that from you blow, a momentary bliss bestow."— GRAY. "But Jesus said unto them, They need not depart; give ye them to eat."-Matt. xiv. 16. "You need not be afraid."-Common Parlance. "Concluding all were desperate sots and fools, The infinitive mood is also used after nouns "You purchase pain with all that joy can give, "To do aught good never will be our task, But ever to do ill our sole delight.”—MILTON. "Still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know." POPE. Verbs. (3.) Transitive verbs take a noun or pronoun Syntax. after them in the objective case; as, Patience breeds patience; We met him yesterday. "Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, "I know the man that must hear me; To him my tale I teach."-COLERIDGE. (4.) Some transitive verbs, such as those of giving, lending, teaching, asking, etc., take two objects after them; as, My father gave me permission; Lend him your book; Chiron taught Achilles music; Brown asked us a question. "Give me another horse!"-Richard III. "To give him annual tribute, do him homage.” Tempest. "You taught me language; and my profit on't "My surveyor is false; the o'er great cardinal "And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, Macbeth. "Bring me no more reports; let them fly all." (5.) Intransitive verbs sometimes take an objective case after them of a noun derived from the same root as themselves; as, Let me die the death of the righteous; I have dreamed a dream; He lived a happy life. "A being breathing thoughtful breath."-WORDSWORTH. King John. Syntax. "Groves, whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm."-MILTON. "Thou hast harped my fear aright" (quasi cognate object).-Macbeth. "From them I go This uncouth errand sole."-MILTON. "He ceased; for both seemed highly pleased, and Death Grinned horrible a ghastly smile."-MILTON. This is sometimes called the "cognate accusative." (6.) Some transitive verbs which take two objects after them in the active voice, retain one of the objects in the passive; as, I was taught music by a German; We were asked an awkward question yesterday. Some verbs are used both transitively and intransitively; as,— "The dropsy drown this fool!"—Tempest. "Come, be a man! Drown thyself? drown cats and blind puppies."-Othello. "I prophesied if a gallows were on land This fellow could not drown."-Tempest. "Most excellent accomplished lady, the heavens rain odours on you!"-Twelfth Night. "For the rain it raineth every day."-Twelfth Night. "Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap." GRAY. "Thence issued such a blast, and hollow roar, 6.6 Along the surface of the spacious plain, DRYDEN. And there receive green chaplets from the hands "One laced the helm, another held the lance; A third the shining buckler did advance."-DRYDEN. Nouns and pronouns are sometimes used as verbs; as, "Being now awake, I'll queen it no inch farther, But milk my ewes, and weep."-A Winter's Tale. "If thou thou'st him some thrice, it shall not be amiss."-Twelfth Night. "Destiny, That hath to instrument this lower world, (7.) The verb substantive to be, the intransitive verbs, to look, to seem, to appear, to become, to grow, and passive verbs of naming, take the same case after them as before them; as, Patience is a virtue; He looks a gentleman; He seems a fool; Napoleon became Emperor; You are growing quite a philosopher; They are called democrats. "What seemed his head, The likeness of a kingly crown had on."-MILTON. "Virtue alone is happiness below."-POPE. Syntax. "Calisto there stood manifest of shame, And, turned a bear, the northern star became." DRYDEN. "He looked a lion with a gloomy stare, DRYDEN. (8.) When pronouns of different persons form the subject of the verbs, and are connected by and, the verb agrees in person with the first person in preference to the second, and with |