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A well known popular song affords an example of the violation of this rule.
"Ven as the Captain comed for to hear on't,
Wery much applauded vot she'd done."
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The verb applauded has here no nominative case, whereas it ought to have been governed by the pronoun he. "He very much applauded," &c.
Every nominative case, except when made absolute, or used, like the Latin Vocative, in addressing a person, should belong to some verb, implied if not expressed. A beautiful example of this grammatical