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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."
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
