Exercise: Nominative and Objective Nouns

Exercise.

Pick out the nouns in the nominative case, and tell which use of
the nominative each one has.

1. Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead; excessive
grief, the enemy of the living.

2.

Excuses are clothes which, when asked
unawares,
Good Breeding to naked Necessity
spares.

3. Human experience is the great test of truth.

4. Cheerfulness and content are great beautifiers.

5. Three properties belong to wisdom,-nature, learning,
and experience; three things characterize man,-person, fate,
and merit.

6.

But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy
wrath can send,
Save, save, oh save me from the
candid friend!

7. Conscience, her first law
broken, wounded lies.

8. They charged, sword in hand and visor down.

9.

O sleep! O gentle sleep!

Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted
thee?

Exercise.

Point out the nouns in the objective case in these sentences,
and tell which use each has:-

1. Tender men sometimes have strong wills.

2. Necessity is the certain connection between cause and
effect.

3. Set a high price on your leisure moments; they are sands of
precious gold.

4. But the flood came howling one day.

5. I found the urchin Cupid sleeping.

6. Five times every year he was to be exposed in the
pillory.

7. The noblest mind the best contentment has.

8. Multitudes came every summer to visit that famous natural
curiosity, the Great Stone Face.

9.

And whirling plate, and forfeits
paid,
His winter task a pastime
made.

10.

He broke the ice on the streamlet's
brink,
And gave the leper to eat and
drink.