PRACTICE IN PARSING AND ANALYSIS SUBJECT AND OBJECT LOOK at any verb making a statement, and you will see that there is along with it a noun, or some word or words used as a noun, about which the statement is made. The bird sings. My brother sings. In these statements, if you ask, "Who or what sings?" the noun answering the question is called the Subject of the verb. In this way we reach a definition: The subject of a verb in a stating sentence is the word or words answering to the question Who? or What? before the verb. Many verbs and all prepositions must be followed by a noun, or some word or words used as a noun, in order to complete the meaning. I love flowers. The dog runs to his master. If you ask, "Love what?" the answer is called the Object of the verb. If you ask, "To whom?" the answer is called the Object of the preposition. So that for the object we now have the definition : The object of a verb or preposition is the word or words answering to the question Whom? or What? after the verb or preposition. EXERCISE I SUBJECT AND OBJECT 1. Haste makes waste. 2. Honest labor bears a lovely face. 6. A soft answer turneth away wrath. 11. Every good tree bringeth forth good fruit. 12. I stood in Venice on the Bridge of Sighs. 13. Good pasture makes fat sheep. 14. Evil communications corrupt good manners. 15. Up soared the lark into the air. 16. The ploughman homeward plods his weary way. 17. The mellow year is hasting to its close. 18. The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea. 19. Four seasons fill the measure of the year. 20. One man in his time plays many parts. 21. Heaven lies about us in our infancy. 22. This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon. 23. The velvet scabbard held a sword of steel. 24. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day. 25. Anger resteth in the bosom of fools. 26. At morn the black cock trims his jetty wing. 27. The buttercup catches the sun in her chalice. 28. Truth hath a quiet breast. 29. Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate. 30. A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. 31. Truth loves open dealing. 32. One star differeth from another star in glory. 33. Above all things truth beareth away the victory. 34. Far through the memory shines a happy day. 35. Great oaks from little acorns grow. 36. I know a bank where the wild thyme grows. 37. Every heart contains perfection's germ. 38. When the cat's away the mice will play. 39. The ear trieth words as the mouth tasteth meat. 40. At the door on summer evenings Sat the little Hiawatha. 41. The green grass floweth like a stream 42. Into the ocean's blue. The childhood shows the man As morning shows the day. 43. He shook the fragment of his blade, And shouted "Victory!" 44. Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory. 45. Now the autumn crisps the forest, Hunters gather, bugles ring. 46. The early sunshine was already pouring its gold upon the mountain-tops. 47. Far from the tumult fled the roe, Close in her covert cowered the doe. 48. Sweetly over the village the bell of the Ange lus sounded. 49. Under a spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands. |