UNDER NOTE II.—­OF FALSE IDENTIFICATION.

“But to be popular, he observes, is an ambiguous word.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 307.  “The infinitive mood, or part of a sentence, is often the nominative case to a verb.”—­L.  Murray’s Index, Octavo Gram., Vol. ii, p. 290.  “When any person, in speaking, introduces his own name, it is the first person; as, ‘I, James, of the city of Boston.’”—­R.  C. Smith’s New Gram., p. 43.  “The name of the person spoken to, is the second person; as, ‘James, come to me.’”—­Ibid. “The name of the person or thing spoken of, or about, is the third person; as, ‘James has come.’”—­Ibid. “The object [of a passive verb] is always its subject or nominative case.”—­Ib., p. 62.  “When a noun is in the nominative case to an active verb, it is the actor.”—­Kirkham’s Gram., p. 44.  “And the person commanded, is its nominative.”—­Ingersoll’s Gram., p. 120.  “The first person is that who speaks.”—­Pasquier’s Levizac, p. 91.  “The Conjugation of a Verb is its different variations or inflections throughout the Moods and Tenses.”—­Wright’s Gram., p. 80.  “The first person is the speaker.  The second person is the one spoken to.  The third person is the one spoken of.”—­Parker and Fox’s Gram., Part i, p. 6; Hiley’s, 18.  “The first person is the one that speaks, or the speaker.”—­Sanborn’s Gram., pp. 23 and 75.  “The second person is the one that is spoken to, or addressed.”—­Ibid. “The third person is the one that is spoken of, or that is the topic of conversation.”—­Ibid. “I, is the first person Singular. We, is the first person Plural.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 51; Alger’s, Ingersoll’s, and many others. “Thou, is the second person Singular. Ye or you, is the second person Plural.”—­Ibid. “He, she, or it, is the third person Singular. They, is the third person Plural.”—­Ibid. “The nominative case is the actor, or subject of the verb.”—­Kirkham’s Gram., p. 43.  “The noun John is the actor, therefore John is in the nominative case.”—­Ibid. “The actor is always the nominative case.”—­Smith’s New Gram., p. 62.  “The nominative case is always the agent or actor.”—­Mack’s Gram., p. 67.  “Tell the part of speech each name is.”—­J.  Flint’s Gram., p. 6.  “What number is boy?  Why?  What number is pens?  Why?”—­Ib., p. 27.  “The speaker is the first person, the person spoken to, the second person, and the person or thing spoken of, is the third person.”—­Ib., p. 26.  “What nouns are masculine gender?  All males are masculine gender.”—­Ib., p. 28.  “An interjection is a sudden emotion of the mind.”—­Barrett’s Gram., p. 62.

RULE VII.—­OBJECTIVES.

A Noun or a Pronoun made the object of a preposition, is governed by it in the objective case:  as, “The temple of fame stands upon the grave:  the flame that burns upon its altars, is kindled from the ashes of great men”—­Hazlitt.