Levi’s station in life was the receipt of custom; and
     Peter’s, the shore of Galilee; and Paul’s, the antechamber of
     the High Priest.—­RUSKIN.

     Swift did not keep Stella’s letters.  He kept Bolingbroke’s,
     and Pope’s, and Harley’s, and Peterborough’s.—­THACKERAY.

     An actor in one of Morton’s or Kotzebue’s plays.—­MACAULAY.

     Putting Mr. Mill’s and Mr. Bentham’s principles together.
     —­Id.

397.  The possessive preceding the gerund will be considered under the possessive of pronouns (Sec. 408).

PRONOUNS.

PERSONAL PRONOUNS.

I. NOMINATIVE AND OBJECTIVE FORMS.

398.  Since most of the personal pronouns, together with the relative who, have separate forms for nominative and objective use, there are two general rules that require attention.

[Sidenote:  General rules.]

(1) The nominative use is usually marked by the nominative form of the pronoun.

(2) The objective use is usually marked by the objective form of the pronoun.

These simple rules are sometimes violated in spoken and in literary English.  Some of the violations are universally condemned; others are generally, if not universally, sanctioned.

[Sidenote:  Objective for the nominative.]

399.  The objective is sometimes found instead of the nominative in the following instances:—­

(1) By a common vulgarism of ignorance or carelessness, no notice is taken of the proper form to be used as subject; as,—­

     He and me once went in the dead of winter in a one-hoss shay
     out to Boonville.—­WHITCHER, Bedott Papers.

     It seems strange to me that them that preach up the doctrine
     don’t admire one who carrys it out.—­Josiah Allens Wife.

(2) By faulty analysis of the sentence, the true relation of the words is misunderstood; for example, “Whom think ye that I am?” (In this, whom is the complement after the verb am, and should be the nominative form, who.) “The young Harper, whom they agree was rather nice-looking” (whom is the subject of the verb was).

Especially is this fault to be noticed after an ellipsis with than or as, the real thought being forgotten; thus,—­

     But the consolation coming from devotion did not go far with such
     a one as her.—­TROLLOPE.

This should be “as she,” because the full expression would be “such a one as she is.”

400.  Still, the last expression has the support of many good writers, as shown in the following examples:—­