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_.
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