RULE XXI._English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Accompanied by a compendium, embracing a new systematic order of parsing, a new system of punctuation, exercises in false syntax, and a system of philosophical grammar, in notes, to which are added an appendix and a key to the exercises : designed for the use of schools and private learners

The verb _to be_ may have the same case after it as before it; as, "_I_

am the _man_;" "I believe _it_ to have been _them;_" "_He_ is the

_thief_."

NOTE 1. When nouns or pronouns next preceding and following the verb

_to be_, signify the _same thing_, they are _in apposition_, and,

therefore, in the _same case_. Rule 21 is predicated on the

principle contained in Rule 7.

2. The verb _to be_ is often understood; as, "The Lord made _me

man_; He made _him what_ he was;" that is, "The Lord made me _to be_

man; He made him _to be that which_ he was." "They desired me to

call _them brethren_;" i.e. _by the name of_ brethren. "They named

_him John_;" i.e. _by the name of_ John; or, by the _name_ John;

putting these two nouns in _apposition_.

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