“Him and I;” not proper, because the pronoun him is the subject of the verb will go understood, therefore him should be in the nominative case, he, according to the above NOTE. (Repeat the NOTE.) Him and I are connected by the conjunction and, and him is in the obj. case, and I in the nom., therefore RULE 33d, is violated. (Repeat the Rule.) In the second and third examples, thee should be thou, according to the NOTE.  The verbs, does and is, are of the third person, and the nom. thou is second, for which reason the verbs should be of the second person, dost do and art, agreeably to RULE 4.  You may correct the other examples, four times over.

FALSE SYNTAX.

Him and me went to town yesterday.  Thee must be attentive.  Him who is careless, will not improve.  They can write as well as me.  This is the man whom was expected.  Her and I deserve esteem.  I have made greater proficiency than him.  Whom, of all my acquaintances, do you think was there?  Whom, for the sake of his important services, had an office of honor bestowed upon him.

NOTE 2, to RULE 13.  Personal pronouns being used to supply the place of nouns, should not be employed in the same member of the sentence with the noun which they represent.

FALSE SYNTAX.

The men they are there.  I saw him the king.  Our cause it is just.  Many words they darken speech.  That noble general who had gained so many victories, he died, at last, in prison.  Who, instead of going about doing good, they are continually doing evil.

In each of the preceding examples, the personal pronoun should be omitted, according to Note 2.

NOTE 3, to RULE 13.  A personal pronoun in the objective case, should not be used instead of these and those.

FALSE SYNTAX.

Remove them papers from the desk.  Give me them books.  Give them men their discharge.  Observe them three there.  Which of them two persons deserves most credit?

In all these examples, those should be used in place of them.  The use of the personal, them, in such constructions, presents two objectives after one verb or preposition.  This is a solecism which may be avoided by employing an adjective pronoun in its stead.

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LECTURE IX.

OF CONJUNCTIONS.

A CONJUNCTION is a part of speech that is chiefly used to connect sentences, joining two or more simple sentences into one compound sentence:  it sometimes connects only words; as, “Thou and he are happy, because you are good.”

Conjunctions are those parts of language, which, by joining sentences in different ways, mark the connexions and various dependances of human thought.  They belong to language only in its refined state.

The term CONJUNCTION comes from the two Latin words, con, which signifies together, and jungo, to join.  A conjunction, then, is a word that conjoins, or joins together something.  Before you can fully comprehend the nature and office of this sort of words, it is requisite that you should know what is meant by a sentence, a simple sentence, and a compound sentence, for conjunctions are chiefly used to connect sentences.