Be composed, it is me.

    I would not act thus, if I were him.

    Well may you be afraid; it is him, indeed.

    Who do you fancy him to to be?

    Whom do men say that I am?  Whom say ye that I am?

    If it was not him, who do you imagine it to have been?

    He supposed it was me; but you knew that it was him.

RULE XXII.

Active-intransitive and passive verbs, the verb to become, and other neuter verbs, have the same case after them as before them, when both words refer to, and signify, the same thing; as, “Tom struts a soldier;” “Will sneaks a scrivener;” “He was called Cesar;” “The general was saluted emperor;” “They have become fools.”

NOTE 1.  Active-intransitive verbs sometimes assume a transitive form, and govern the objective case; as, “To dream a dream; To run a race; To walk the horse; To dance the child; To fly the kite.”

2.  According to a usage too common in colloquial style, an agent not literally the correct one, is employed as the nominative to a passive verb, which causes the verb to be followed by an objective case without the possibility of supplying before it a preposition:  thus, “Pitticus was offered a large sum by the king;” “She was promised them (the jewels) by her mother;” “I was asked a question.”  It would be better sense, and more agreeable to the idiom of our language, to say, “A large sum was offered to Pitticus;” “They were promised (to) her;” “A question was put to me.”

3.  Some passive verbs are formed by using the participles of compound active verbs.  To smile, to wonder, to dream, are intransitive verbs, for which reason they have no passive voice; but, to smile on, to wonder at, to dream of, are compound active-transitive verbs, and, therefore, admit of a passive voice; as, “He was smiled on by fortune; The accident is not to be wondered at;”

      “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
      “Than are dreamed of in your philosophy.”

RULE XXIII.

A verb in the infinitive mood may be governed by a verb, noun, adjective, participle, or pronoun; as, “Cease to do evil;” “We all have our talent to be improved;” “She is eager to learn;” “They are preparing to go;” “Let him do it.”

ILLUSTRATION.  The supposed principle of government referred to in this rule, may be thus illustrated.  In the sentence, “Cease to do evil,” the peculiar manner in which cease is introduced, requires or compels us to put the verb do in the infinitive mood; and, according to the genius of our language, we cannot express this act of doing, when thus connected with cease, in any other mood, unless we change the construction of the sentence.  Hence we say, that cease governs the mood of the verb do.  Similar remarks may be applied to the words talent, eager, preparing, and him, in the respective examples under the rule.