NOTE V.—­Passive verbs should never be made to govern the objective case, because the receiving of an action supposes it to terminate on the subject or nominative.[356] Errors:  “Sometimes it is made use of to give a small degree of emphasis.”—­L.  Murray’s Gram., 8vo, p. 197.  Say, “Sometimes it is used,” &c.  “His female characters have been found fault with as insipid.”—­Hazlitt’s Lect., p. 111.  Say,—­“have been censured;” or,—­“have been blamed, decried, dispraised, or condemned.”

NOTE VI.—­The perfect participle, as such, should never be made to govern any objective term; because, without an active auxiliary, its signification is almost always passive:  as, “We shall set down the characters made use of to represent all the elementary sounds.”—­L.  Murray’s Gram., p. 5; Fisk’s, 34.  Say,—­“the characters employed, or used.”

NOTE VII.—­As the different cases in English are not always distinguished by their form, care must be taken lest their construction be found equivocal, or ambiguous; as, “And we shall always find our sentences acquire more vigour and energy when thus retrenched.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 111.  Say, “We shall always find that our sentences acquire more vigour,” &c.; or, “We shall always find our sentences to acquire more vigour and energy when thus retrenched.”

NOTE VIII.—­In the language of our Bible, rightly quoted or printed, ye is not found in the objective case, nor you in the nominative; scriptural texts that preserve not this distinction of cases, are consequently to be considered inaccurate.

IMPROPRIETIES FOR CORRECTION.  FALSE SYNTAX UNDER RULE V.

UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.—­THE OBJECTIVE FORM.

“Who should I meet the other day but my old friend!”—­Spectator, No. 32.

[FORMULE.—­Not proper, because the pronoun who is in the nominative case, and is used as the object of the active-transitive verb should meet.  But, according to Rule 5th, “A noun or a pronoun made the object of an active-transitive verb or participle, is governed by it in the objective case.”  Therefore, who should be whom; thus, “Whom should I meet,” &c.]

“Let not him boast that puts on his armour, but he that takes it off.”—­Barclay’s Works, iii, 262.  “Let none touch it, but they who are clean.”—­Sale’s Koran, 95.  “Let the sea roar, and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.”—­Psalms, xcviii, 7.  “Pray be private, and careful who you trust.”—­Mrs. Goffe’s Letter.  “How shall the people know who to entrust with their property and their liberties?”—­ District School, p. 301.  “The chaplain entreated my comrade and I to dress as well as possible.”—­World Displayed, i, 163.  “He that cometh