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:i240 SYNTAX.—ACCUSATIVE. § 115, 116435.—§ 115. CONSTRUCTION OF THR ACCUSATIVE.1. The accusative, in Latin, is used to express the immediate object < fa transitive active verb,—or, in other words, that on which its action isexerted, and which is affected by it.2 It is used to express the object to which something tends or relates,in which sense it is governed by a preposition, expressed or understood.When used to express the remote object of a transitive verb, or certainrelations of measure, distance, time, and place, the preposition is usuallyomitted.——§ 116. ACCUSATIVE GOVERNED BY VERBS.436.Rule XX. A transitive verb in the activevoice, governs tlie accusative ;as,Ama Deum,Love God.SPECIAL RULES.437.—I. A transitive deponent verb governsthe accusative ;as,Reverere parentes,Reverence your parents.438.—II. An intransitive verb may govern anoun of kindred signification, in the accusative ;as,Pugnare pugnam,To fight a battle.439.—EXPLANATION.—These rulesaccusative as their immediate object ;apply to all -verbs which have anand that accusative may be any thingused substantively, whether it be a noun, a pronoun, an infinitive mood, orclause of a sentence. Intransitives under Kule II. are often followed by theablative, with a preposition expressed or understood ; as, Ire (in) itinere,gaudere (cum) gaudio, &c.440.— Obs. 1. Verbs signifying to name, choose, reckon, constitute, andthe like, besides the accusative of the object, take also the accusative ofthe name, office, character, &c, ascribed to it; as, urbem Rom am vocdvit, " he called the city Rome? All such verbs, in the passive, have thesame case after as before them. (320).441.Obs. 2. Verbs commonly intransitive, are sometimes used .r