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Tips from 1870 | Usage: After the Imperative. The imperative mood requires the objective case after it. "Let you and I try it." It should be, "Let you and me try it." "Let he who made thee answer that."-- Byron. He should have said, "Let him who made thee answer that." "Let him be whom, he may." Him is the objective after the imperative let, and is correct. Whom should be who, as pronoun attribute of the verb may be. "Who he may be, I cannot tell," is correct. "Who he may be, let him be," is also correct. By transposing, and by omitting be, we have "Let him be who he may." "Let the sea roar, and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein." When, as in this case, the verb is widely separated from its object, we need to give particular care to the case of the pronoun which constitutes the object. They should be them. Source: Slips of Speech. |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 46 54 45 52 54 48 45 49 4D 50 45 52 41 54 49 56 45 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01000110 01010100 01000101 01010010 00100000 01010100 01001000 01000101 00100000 01001001 01001101 01010000 01000101 01010010 01000001 01010100 01001001 01010110 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A F T E R   T H E   I M P E R A T I V E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0046 0054 0045 0052 0054 0048 0045 0049 004D 0050 0045 0052 0041 0054 0049 0056 0045 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)35405439522544239243475039523554435639 |
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