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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