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"A work on english grammar and composition"


16. I referred to my old friend, he of whom I so often speak.
17. You have seen Cassio and she together.
18. Between you and I, I believe that he is losing his mind.
19. Who should I meet the other day but my old friend? 20. Who did he refer
to, he or I?
21. Who did he choose? Did he choose you and I?
22. He that is idle and mischievous reprove.
23. We will refer it to whoever you may choose.
24. Whosoever the court favors is safe.
25. They that are diligent I will reward.
20. Scotland and thee did in each other live.
27. My hour is come, but not to render up my soul to such as thee.
28. I knew that it was him.
29. I knew it to be he.
30. Who did you suppose it to be?
31. Whom did you suppose it was?
32. I took that tall man to be he.
33. I thought that tall man was him.
Although _than_ is not a preposition, it is sometimes followed by _whom,_
as in the familiar passage from Milton: "Beelzebub... _than whom,_ Satan
except, none higher sat." _Than whom_ is an irregularity justified only on
the basis of good usage. _Whom_ here may be parsed as an objective case
form used idiomatically in place of _who_.
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LESSON 126.
CONSTRUCTION OF CASE FORMS.
MISCELLANEOUS--REVIEW.
Direction.


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