Note 1.  Those sort of favors do real injury.

    They have been playing this two hours.

    These kind of indulgences soften and injure the mind.  He saw one
    or more persons enter the garden.

    Note 2.  Let each esteem others better than themselves.

    There are bodies, each of which are so small as to be invisible.

    Every person, whatever their station may be, are bound by the laws
    of morality and religion.

    Note 3.  On either side of the river was the tree of life.

    Nadab and Abihu took either of them his censer.

RULE XX.

Active-transitive verbs govern the objective case; as, “Cesar conquered Pompey;” “Columbus discovered America;” “Truth ennobles her.”

FALSE SYNTAX.

    Ye who were dead, hath he quickened.

Ye, in the nominative case, is erroneous, because it is the object of the action expressed by the transitive verb “hath quickened;” and therefore it should be you, in the objective case. You would then be governed by “hath quickened,” agreeably, to Rule 20. Active-transitive verbs govern the objective case.

    Who did they entertain so freely?

    They who opulence has made proud, and who luxury has corrupted,
    cannot relish the simple pleasures of nature.

    He and they we know, but who are ye?

    She that is negligent, reprove sharply.

    He invited my brother and I to pay him a visit.

    Who did they send on that mission?

    They who he has most injured, he had the greatest reason to love.

RULE XXI.

The verb to be may have the same case after it as before it; as, “I am the man;” “I believe it to have been them;” “He is the thief.”

NOTE 1.  When nouns or pronouns next preceding and following the verb to be, signify the same thing, they are in apposition, and, therefore, in the same case.  Rule 21 is predicated on the principle contained in Rule 7.

2.  The verb to be is often understood; as, “The Lord made me man; He made him what he was;” that is, “The Lord made me to be man; He made him to be that which he was.”  “They desired me to call them brethren;” i.e. by the name of brethren.  “They named him John;” i.e. by the name of John; or, by the name John; putting these two nouns in apposition.

FALSE SYNTAX.

    I know it to be they.

Improper, because it is in the objective case before the verb “to be,” and they is in the nominative after; consequently, Rule 21 is violated. They is in apposition with it, therefore they should be them, in the objective after to be, according to Rule 21. (Repeat the Rule.)