OBS. 5.—­Different verbs always have different subjects, expressed or understood; except when two or more verbs are connected in the same construction, or when the same word is repeated for the sake of emphasis.  But let not the reader believe the common doctrine of our grammarians, respecting either the ellipsis of nominatives or the ellipsis of verbs.  In the text, “The man was old and crafty,” Murray sees no connexion of the ideas of age and craftiness, but thinks the text a compound sentence, containing two nominatives and two verbs; i.e., “The man was old, and the man was crafty.” [387] And all his other instances of “the ellipsis of the verb” are equally fanciful!  See his Octavo Gram., p. 219; Duodecimo, 175.  In the text, “God loves, protects, supports, and rewards the rights,” there are four verbs in the same construction, agreeing with the same nominative, and governing the same object; but Buchanan and others expound it, “God loves, and God protects, and God supports, and God rewards the righteous.”—­English Syntax, p. 76; British Gram., 192.  This also is fanciful and inconsistent.  If the nominative is here “elegantly understood to each verb,” so is the objective, which they do not repeat.  “And again,” they immediately add, “the verb is often understood to its noun or nouns; as, He dreams of gibbets, halters, racks, daggers, &c. i.e.  He dreams of gibbets, and he dreams of halters, &c.”—­Same works and places.  In none of these examples is there any occasion to suppose an ellipsis, if we admit that two or more words can be connected in the same construction!

OBS. 6.—­Verbs in the imperative mood commonly agree with the pronoun thou, ye, or you, understood after them; as, “Heal [ye] the sick, cleanse [ye] the lepers, raise [ye] the dead, cast [ye] out devils.”—­Matt., x, 8. “Trust God and be doing, and leave the rest with him.”—­Dr. Sibs.  When the doer of a thing must first proceed to the place of action, we sometimes use go or come before an other verb, without any conjunction between the two; as, “Son, go work to-day in my vineyard.”—­Matt., xxi, 28. “Come see a man who [has] told me all things that ever I did.”—­John, iv, 29.  “He ordered his soldiers to go murder every child about Bethlehem, or near it.”—­Wood’s Dict. of Bible, w.  Herod.  “Take a present in thine hand, and go meet the man of God.”—­2 Kings, viii, 8.  “I will go see if he be at home.”—­Walker’s Particles, p. 169.

OBS. 7.—­The place of the verb has reference mainly to that of the subject with which it agrees, and that of the object which it governs; and as the arrangement of these, with the instances in which they come before or after the verb, has already been noticed, the position of the latter seems to require no further explanation.  See Obs. 2d under Rule 2d, and Obs. 2d under Rule 5th.