OBS. 5.—­In some peculiar constructions, both words naturally come before the verb; as, “I know not who she is.”—­“Who did you say it was?”—­“I know not how to tell thee who I am.”—­Romeo.  “Inquire thou whose son the stripling is.”—­1 Sam., xvii, 56.  “Man would not be the creature which he now is.”—­Blair.  “I could not guess who it should be.”—­Addison.  And they are sometimes placed in this manner by hyberbaton [sic—­KTH], or transposition; as, “Yet he it is.”—­Young.  “No contemptible orator he was.”—­Dr. Blair. “He it is to whom I shall give a sop.”—­John, xiii, 26.  “And a very noble personage Cato is.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 457. “Clouds they are without water.”—­Jude, 12.

   “Of worm or serpent kind it something looked,
    But monstrous, with a thousand snaky heads.”—­Pollok, B. i, l. 183.

OBS. 6.—­As infinitives and participles have no nominatives of their own, such of them as are not transitive in their nature, may take different cases after them; and, in order to determine what case it is that follows them, the learner must carefully observe what preceding word denotes the same person or thing, and apply the principle of the rule accordingly.  This word being often remote, and sometimes understood, the sense is the only clew to the construction.  Examples:  “Who then can bear the thought of being an outcast from his presence?”—­Addison.  Here outcast agrees with who, and not with thought. “I cannot help being so passionate an admirer as I am.”—­Steele.  Here admirer agrees with I.  “To recommend what the soberer part of mankind look upon to be a trifle.”—­Steele.  Here trifle agrees with what as relative, the objective governed by upon. “It would be a romantic madness, for a man to be a lord in his closet.”—­Id. Here madness is in the nominative case, agreeing with it; and lord, in the objective, agreeing with man.  “To affect to be a lord in one’s closet, would be a romantic madness.”  In this sentence also, lord is in the objective, after to be; and madness, in the nominative, after would be.

   “‘My dear Tibullus!’ If that will not do,
    Let me be Horace, and be Ovid you.”—­Pope, B. ii, Ep. ii, 143.