LESSON XVII. Parse the words in the following Exercise, and apply the Rules: Come hither, boy. Mourn, widowed queen; forgotten Zion, mourn. Sing for joy, ye mountains. O thou, who hast adorned this earth. Come o'er the sea, maiden, with me. Charge, Chester, charge! on, Stanley, on! Up, lads, and at them! My author and disposer, what thou bidd'st, Fair daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon. To me, fair friend, you never can be old. Fare thee well, great heart! Ill-weaved ambition, how much art thou shrunk! O sleep, O gentle sleep, how have I frighted thee? O Austria, thou dost shame That bloody spoil; thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward, Bird of the wilderness, Blythesome and cumberless, Sweet be thy matin o'er moorland and lea. RULE XII-A Noun and a Participle, whose case depends upon no other word in the sentence, are said to be in the Nominative Absolute. LESSON XVIII. Parse the words in the following Exercise, and apply the Rules : The sun having risen, we pursued our journey in peace.* Napoleon, the enemy having fled, withdrew his troops. Parliament having been prorogued, the king returned to Windsor. His freedom once obtained, the slave soon becomes like other men. The nurse being confined to her room, I was obliged to take her place. I still had hopes, my long vexations past,+ * Here we have sun and having risen standing independent of the rest of the sentence, and so the case is called Absolute, or Independent. The Participle being is very frequently to be supplied. The wind having now fallen, we could proceed in safety. King John being dead, a civil war ensued. My story being done, She gave me for my pains a world of sighs. One man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. Speaking To tell the truth,* I was not anxious about the matter. generally, the army marched ten miles a day. The plan you proposed was, to say the least, not the wisest possible. RULE XIII.-When two Nouns come together, signifying different things, the first is put in the Possessive Case. LESSON XIX. Parse the words in the following Exercise, and apply the Rules : John's book was torn. My sister's hat was blown into the river. The horse broke the driver's leg. Moses' face shone. The men's heads scarcely appeared above the surface of the water. The horses' manes were carefully cropped. I told him to meet me at the bookseller's. This is a friend of my brother's. This is a picture of my friend. This is a picture of my friend's. He told him to take a book of yours, and repeat his lesson. This toy is mine. Render unto Cæsar the things that are Cæsar's. Have you read any of Milton's and Tennyson's poems. Edward the Sixth's reign was short. Have you read many of Beaumont and Fletcher's plays. RULE XIV. Transitive Verbs and Prepositions govern Nouns and Pronouns in the Objective Case. LESSON XX. Parse the words in the following Exercise, and apply the Rules: * The Present Infinitive and the Present Participle are frequently used absolutely. + In examples of this sort, the Possessive is indicated by the apostrophe alone, to avoid the repetition of the hissing sound. Direct attention to the difference in meaning between these two sentences. The boy loves his mother. The master struck the table. The king mightily offended him. I told him to lay the book on the table. James the Sixth was the son of Mary. My brother has greatly improved the house and garden. By the rivers of Babylon we sat down and wept. When he saw the deed, his face burned with indignation. 1 had a little daughter, And she was given to me To the heavenly Father's knee RULE XV. Many Intransitive Verbs take after them a Noun in the Objective Case, when the Noun is of cognate signification with the Verb. LESSON XXI. Parse the words in the following Exercise, and apply the Rules: She sang the song most beautifully. He danced the "Highland fling." Can you run the race? I have fought a good fight. Sleep the sleep that knows not waking. Whosoever shall curse his father or his mother, let him die the death. Can you dance the "Sword-dance"? He lived a quiet life in his rural home. His actions spoke volumes. There arose the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind. RULE XVI.-Verbs of asking, teaching, telling, promising, refusing, and the like, govern two Objectives-the first of a person, the second of a thing. LESSON XXII. Parse the words in the following Exercise, and apply the Rules: You may ask me any question. The master taught the scholars grammar. The king promised him* a great reward. The conspira * This is a pure dative case; but as it is objective in form, it may be parsed as such. In cases like this, there is no use in supplying to, or any such preposition. The usage of the language is to use these objectives without the preposi tors offered the officer any amount of money. Can you lend me ten pounds? You ought to send him a present of some kind or other. The emperor refused the army every condition which they proposed. The officer told the soldier to move on quickly.* He made the men sit down on the grass. Tell me, thou fellow, is not France forsworn? Thou dost never fight but when Fortune is near to teach thee safety. This peace will give her sadness very little cure. I forgave thee all that debt. I paid you the whole price. How green you are and fresh in this old world! RULE XVII. Those Verbs which in the Active Voice govern two Objectives, frequently govern one Objective when they are in the Passive Voice. LESSON XXIII. Parse the words in the following Exercise, and apply the Rules : He was not asked any more questions. The scholars were taught geography. He was promised a great reward. The peasant was offered a large bribe. A very handsome present was sent him. Admission was sternly refused him. The king was told the whole story. The money was paid him yesterday. A way was found the poor wretch to escape by. All are taught an avarice of praise. RULE XVIII.-Nouns denoting time, space, measure, and quantity, are put in the Objective Case. LESSON XXIV. Parse the words in the following Exercise, and apply the Rules : The horseman rode forty miles. He remained at home many days. The walls were twenty feet high. The load weighs two tons. He came back the same way as he went. The book is worth many pounds. Your task must be completed this very day. The stranger paused a * "The Infinitive Phrase" here supplies the place of the second Objective. while, to view the scene. He gazed a moment down the dale. This morn a couch was pulled for you. This morning, with Lord Moray's train, He chased a stalwart stag in vain. Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward,— Rode the Six Hundred. RULE XIX.-If a Nominative come between the Relative and the Verb, the Relative is governed by the Noun or Verb which follows it, or by the Preposition which goes before it. LESSON XXV. Parse the words in the following Exercise, and apply the Rules : The man whose hat was blown off ran after it. The men, whose horses were frightened, were thrown to the ground. The king, whose army was defeated, fled in dismay. The man, whom you saw yesterday, has gone away. The present which you offered him cost a large price. The dog that you purchased will prove useful. The reason which he assigned for his conduct was unsatisfactory. The person to whom you gave the book brought it back. The message with which you were charged has not been delivered. He gave up the knife by which he had inflicted the wound. He is the freeman whom the truth makes free. He may be poor, compared with those whose mansions glitter in his sight. There stands the wall on which we tried our graving skill. LESSON XXVI. Parse the words in the following Exercise, and apply the Rules: This is the man† you seek. This is the book you were speaking of. This is the house that you talked so much about. Every drop we *This is nearly a case of Rule XIII. Whose is thrown into the Possessive Case by hat; so with the Objective Case of the Relative. The Relative is frequently omitted in the Objective Case. When this happens, the Preposition which governs the Relative is placed after the Verb; as is always the case with the Relative Pronoun that. |