it is required to be in like cafe, number, gender, or person.

One word is faid to govern another, when it causeth the other to be in fome Cafe, or Mode. Sentences are either Simple, or Compounded. A Simple Sentence hath in it but one Subject, and one Finite Verb ; that is a Verb in the Indicative, Imperative, or Subjunctive Mode.

A Phrafe is two or more words rightly put together, in order to make a part of a Sentence; and fometimes making a whole Sentence.

The most common PHRASES, .ufed in fimple Sentences, are the following.

ift Phrafe The Subftantive before a Verb Active, Paffive, or Neuter; when it is faid, what thing is, does, or is done: as, "I am;" "Thou writeft;, Thomas is loved: where I, Thou, Thomas, are the Nominative (1) Cases; and answer to the queftion, who, or what? as, "Who is loved? Thomas. " And the Verb agrees with the Nominative Cafe in Number and

(1) He, whom ye pretend reigns in heaven, is fo far from protecting the miserable fons of men, that he perpetually de

Perfon (1); as, thou being the Second Perfon
Singular, the Verb writeft is fo too.

lights to blaft the fweeteft flowrets in the Garden of Hope. : Adventurer, No 76. It ought to be who, the Nominative Cafe to reigns; not whom, as if it were the Obje&ive Case governed by pretend. If you were here, you would find three or four in the parlour after dinner, whom you would say passed their time agreeably." Locke, Letter to Molyneux, "Scotland and Thee did each in other live. "

Dryden, Poems, Vol. II. p. 220.

"We are alone; here's none, but Thee and I. "

Shakspeare, 2 Henry VI.

It ought in both places to be Thou; the Nominative Cafe to

the Verb expreffed 'or understood.

(1) « But Thou, false Arcite, never fhall obtain

Thy bad pretence."

Dryden, Fables.

It ought to be halt. The mistake feems to arife from the confounding of Thou and You, as equivalent in every respe&; whereas one is Singular, the other Plural. See above, "And wherefoe'er thou cafts thy view. "

P. 46.

Cowley, on the Death of Hervey.

"There's (there are) two or three of us have seen strange

fights.

Shakspeare, Jul. Cæf.

Great pains has (have) been taken."

Pope, P. S. to the Odyssey. "I have confidered, what have (hath) been faid on both fides in this controverfy." Tillotson, Vol. I. Serm. 27. "One would think, there was more Sophifts than one had a finger in this Volume of Letters. " Bentley, Differt. on Socrate's Epiftles, Sect. IX.

2d Phrafe: The Subftantive after a Verb Neuter or Paffive; when it is faid, that such a thing is, or is made, or thought, or called, fuch another thing; or, when the Subftantive after the Verb is spoken of the fame thing or person with the Subftantive before the Verb: as, A calf becomes an ox; Plautus is accounted a Poet;"

I am He." Here the latter Subftantive is in the Nominative Cafe, as well as the former; and the Verb is faid to govern the Nominative Cafe: or, the latter Subftantive may be said to agree in Cafe with the former.

3d Phrase: The Adjective after a Verb Neuter or Paffive, in like manner: as Life is fhort, and Art is long. "2 Exercise is esteemed whole

fome. "

4th Phrafe: The Subftantive after a Verb Ac

"The number of the names together were about an hundred and twenty." Acts, i. 15. See also Job, xiv. 5.

"And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldeft son Esau which were with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her youngest fon. » Gen. xxvii. 15.

"If the blood of bulls and of goats, heifer, sprinkling the unclean, fandlifieth to the purifying and the ashes of an of the flesh. » Heb. ix. 13. See alfo Exod. ix. 8, 9, 10.

tive,

tive, or Tranfitive: as when one thing is faid
to act upon, or do fomething to, another as,
to build a houfe:,,
"to open a door; "
Here
"Alexander conquered the Perfians. "
the thing acted upon is in the Objective Cafe (1):
as it appears plainly when it is expreffed by the
Pronoun, which has a proper termination for
that Cafe; Alexander conquered them; and
the Verb is faid to govern the Objective Cafe.
5th Phrafe: A Verb following another Verb,

And far enough from court."

Id. Hen. VIII.

"Tell who loves who; what favours fome partake,

And who is jilted for another's fake.

Dryden, Juvenal, Sat. vi.

Who Should I meet the other

Thofe, who he thought true to his party. Clarendon,

Hift. Vol. I. p. 667, 8vo.

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"Who fhould I fee in the lid of it, but the Dodor?" Addison, Spec. No 57. "Laying the fufpicion upon fomebody, I know not who, in Swift, Apology prefixed to Tale of a Tub.

night, but my old friend?", Spe&. N° 32.

the country. "

In all these places it ought to be whom.

H

as,

Boys love to play: where the latter Verb is in the Infinitive Mode.

6th Phrase: When one thing is faid to belong to another: as, "Milton's poems, where the thing to which the other belongs is placed firft, and is in the Poffeffive Cafe; or elfe laft, with the Prepofition of before it as, the poems

of Milton. "

as,

7th Phrafe: When another Subftantive is added to exprefs and explain the former more fully; Paul the Apoftle; King George: " where they are both in the fame cafe ; and the latter is faid to be put in Appofition to the former.

8th Phrase: When the quality of the Subftantive is expreffed by adding an Adjective to it: as, a wife man; " "a black horse.,, Participles have the nature of Adjectives; as, "a learned man; " a loving father.,,

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9th Phrafe: An Adjective with a Verb in the Infinitive Mode following it: as, worthy to

die; fit to be trufted.",

10th Phrase: When a circumftance is added to a Verb, or to an Adjective, by an Adverb: as, “You read well; "he is very prudent. "

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