RULE V.

When an address is made, the noun or pronoun addressed, is put in the

nominative case _independent_; as, "_Plato_, thou reasonest well;" "Do,

_Trim_, said my uncle Toby."

NOTE 1. A noun is independent, when it has no verb to agree with it.

2. Interjections require the objective case of a pronoun of the

_first_ person after them, but the nominative of a noun or pronoun

of the _second_ or _third_ person; as, "Ah! _me_; Oh! _thou_; O!

_virtue_."

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