NOTE TO RULE VII.

An objective noun of time or measure, if it qualifies a subsequent adjective, must not also be made an adjunct to a preceding noun; as, “To an infant of only two or three years old.”—­Dr. Wayland.  Expunge of, or for old write of age.  The following is right:  “The vast army of the Canaanites, nine hundred chariots strong, covered the level plain of Esdraelon.”—­Milman’s Jews, Vol. i, p. 159.  See Obs. 6th above.

IMPROPRIETIES FOR CORRECTION.

FALSE SYNTAX UNDER RULE VII.  UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.—­OF THE OBJECTIVE IN FORM.

“But I do not remember who they were for.”—­Abbott’s Teacher, p. 265.

[FORMULE.—­Not proper, because the pronoun who is in the nominative case, and is made the object of the preposition for.  But, according to Rule 7th, “A noun or a pronoun made the object of a preposition, is governed by it in the objective case.”  Therefore, who should be whom; thus, “But I do not remember whom they were for.”]

“But if you can’t help it, who do you complain of?”—­Collier’s Antoninus, p. 137.  “Who was it from? and what was it about?”—­Edgeworth’s Frank, p. 72.  “I have plenty of victuals, and, between you and I, something in a corner.”—­Day’s Sandford and Merton.  “The upper one, who I am now about to speak of.”—­Hunt’s Byron, p. 311.  “And to poor we, thine enmity’s most capital.”—­Beauties of Shakspeare, p. 201.  “Which thou dost confess, were fit for thee to use, as they to claim.”—­Ib., p. 196.  “To beg of thee, it is my more dishonour, than thou of them.”—­Ib., p. 197.  “There are still a few who, like thou and I, drink nothing but water.”—­Gil Blas, Vol. i, p. 104.  “Thus, I shall fall; Thou shalt love thy neighbour; He shall be rewarded, express no resolution on the part of I, thou, he.”—­Lennie’s E. Gram., p. 22; Bullions’s, 32.  “So saucy with the hand of she here—­What’s her name?”—­Shak., Ant. and Cleop., Act iii, Sc. 11.  “All debts are cleared between you and I.”—­Id., Merchant of Venice, Act iii, Sc. 2.  “Her price is paid, and she is sold like thou.”—­Milman’s Fall of Jerusalem.  “Search through all the most flourishing era’s of Greece.”—­Brown’s Estimate, ii, 16.  “The family of the Rudolph’s had been long distinguished.”—­The Friend, Vol. v, p. 54.  “It will do well enough for you and I.”—­Castle Rackrent, p. 120.  “The public will soon discriminate between him who is the sycophant, and he who is the teacher.”—­Chazotte’s Essay, p. 10.  “We are still much at a loss who civil power belongs to.”—­Locke.  “What do you call it? and who does it belong to?”—­Collier’s Cebes.  “He had received no lessons from the Socrates’s,