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CASES OF PERSONAL PRONOUNS. I The Nominative. Nominative forms. 84. The nominative forms of personal pronouns have the same uses as the nominative of nouns. The case of most of these pronouns can be determined more easily than the case of nouns, for, besides a nominative use, they have a nominative form. The words I, thou, he, she, we, ye, they, are very rarely anything but nominative in literary

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FORMS OF PERSONAL PRONOUNS.77. Personal pronouns are inflected thus:- FIRST PERSON. Singular. Plural. Nom. I we Poss. mine, my our, ours Obj. me us SECOND PERSON. Singular. Old Form Common Form. Nom. thou you Poss. thine, thy your, yours

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PRONOUNS.The need of pronouns.72. When we wish to speak of a name several times in succession, it is clumsy and tiresome to repeat the noun. For instance, instead of saying, "The pupil will succeed in the pupil's efforts if the pupil is ambitious," we improve the sentence by shortening it thus, "The pupil will succeed in his efforts if he is ambitious."Again, if we wish to know about the

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HOW TO PARSE NOUNS.69. Parsing a word is putting together all the facts about its form and its relations to other words in the sentence.In parsing, some idioms-the double possessive, for example-do not come under regular grammatical rules, and are to be spoken of merely as idioms.70. Hence, in parsing a noun, we state,-(1) The class to which it belongs,-common, proper, etc.(2) Whether a neuter or

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Possessive with compound expressions.66. In compound expressions,containing words in apposition, a word with a phrase, etc., thepossessive sign is usually last, though instances are found withboth appositional words marked.Compare the following examples of literary usage:-Do not the Miss Prys, my neighbors, know the amount of myincome, the items of my son's, Captain Scrapegrace's,tailor's

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61. This last-named possessiveexpresses a variety of relations. Possession in some senseis the most common. The kind of relation may usually be found byexpanding the possessive into an equivalent phrase: for example,"Winter's rude tempests are gathering now" (i.e., tempeststhat winter is likely to have); "His beard was of several days' growth" (i.e., growth whichseveral days had developed); "The

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Exercise.Pick out the nouns in the nominative case, and tell which use ofthe nominative each one has.1. Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead; excessivegrief, the enemy of the living.2.Excuses are clothes which, when askedunawares, Good Breeding to naked Necessityspares.3. Human experience is the great test of truth.4. Cheerfulness and content are great beautifiers.5. Three properties

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56. In the general wearing-away of inflections, the number of case forms has been greatly reduced. Only two case forms. There are now only two case forms of English nouns,—one for the nominative and objective, one for the possessive: consequently the matter of inflection is a very easy thing to handle in learning about cases. Reasons for speaking of three cases of nouns. But there are reasons why

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Exercise 03Find in the dictionary the plurals of these words:I. FROM THE LATIN.apparatusappendixaxisdatumerratumfocusformulagenuslarvamediummemorandumnebularadiusseriesspeciesstratumterminusvertexII. FROM THE GREEK.analysisantithesisautomatonbasiscrisisellipsishypothesisparenthesisphenomenonthesisWhen the foreign words are fully naturalized, they form their plurals in the regular way; as,

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Lesson 51Some groups pluralize both parts of the group; as man singer, manservant, woman servant, woman singer.Lesson 52: Two methods in use for names with titlesAs to plurals of names with titles, there is some disagreement among English writers. The title may be plural, as the Messrs. Allen, the Drs. Brown, the Misses Rich; or the name may be pluralized.The former is perhaps more common in

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Lesson 46Some words have no corresponding singular.aboriginesamendsannalsassetsantipodesscissorsthanksspectaclesvespersvictualsmatinsnuptialsoatsobsequiespremisesbellowsbilliardsdregsgallowstongsSometimes, however, a few of these words have the construction of singular nouns. Notice the following:They cannot get on without each other any more than one blade of a scissors can cut without the

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Lesson 41Akin to this class are some words, originally neuter, that have the singular and plural alike; such as deer, sheep, swine, etc.Other words following the same usage are, pair, brace, dozen, after numerals (if not after numerals, or if preceded by the prepositions in, by, etc, they add -s): also trout, salmon; head, sail; cannon; heathen, folk, people.The words horse and foot, when they

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Lesson 36Our language has two numbers,—singular and plural. The singular number denotes that one thing is spoken of; the plural, more than one.Lesson 37There are three ways of changing the singular form to the plural:(1) By adding -en.(2) By changing the root vowel.(3) By adding -s (or -es).The first two methods prevailed, together with the third, in Old English, but in modern English -s or -es

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Lesson 31: Ending -ess less used now than formerlyWhen the older -en and -ster went out of use as the distinctive mark of the feminine, the ending -ess, from the French -esse, sprang into a popularity much greater than at present.Instead of saying doctress, fosteress, wagoness, as was said in the sixteenth century, or servauntesse, teacheresse, neighboresse, frendesse, as in the fourteenth

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Lesson 26Put in convenient form, the division of words according to sex, or the lack of it, is,Gender nounsMASCULINE: Male beings.FEMININE: Female beings.Neuter nouns: Names of inanimate things, or of living beings whose sex cannot be determined.Lesson 27The inflections for gender belong, of course, only to masculine and feminine nouns. Forms would be a more accurate word than inflections, since

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Exercise 02Pick out the nouns in the following sentences, and tell to which class each belongs. Notice if any have shifted from one class to another.1. Hope springs eternal in the human breast.2. Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate.3. Stone walls do not a prison make. Nor iron bars a cage.4. Truth-teller was our England's Alfred named.5. A great deal of talent is lost to the world

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Chapter 02Inflections of Nouns – Gender Lesson 21: What gender means in English - It is founded on sexIn Latin, Greek, German, and many other languages, some general rules are given that names of male beings are usually masculine, and names of females are usually feminine. There are exceptions even to this general statement, but not so in English. Male beings are, in English grammar, always

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Lesson 16: Personification of abstract ideasAbstract nouns are frequently used as proper names by being personified; that is, the ideas are spoken of as residing in living beings. This is a poetic usage, though not confined to verse.Next Anger rushed; his eyes, on fire, In lightnings owned his secret stings.Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind.Death, his mask melting like a nightmare dream,

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Exercise1. From your reading bring up sentences containing ten common nouns, five proper, five abstract. NOTE. Remember that all sentences are to be selected from standard literature.2. Under what class of nouns would you place (a) the names of diseases, as pneumonia, pleurisy, catarrh, typhus, diphtheria; (b) branches of knowledge, as physics, algebra, geology, mathematics?3. Mention collective

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Lesson 11: Verbal Abstract Nouns The VERBAL ABSTRACT NOUNS Originate in verbs, as their name implies. They may be:(1) Of the same form as the simple verb. The verb, by altering its function, is used as a noun; as in the expressions, "a long run" "a bold move," "a brisk walk."(2) Derived from verbs by changing the ending or adding a suffix: motion from move, speech from speak, theft from thieve,

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Lesson 6: Names for Things Thought of in MassThe definition given for common nouns applies more strictly to class nouns. It may, however, be correctly used for another group of nouns detailed below; for they are common nouns in the sense that the names apply to every particle of similar substance, instead of to each individual or separate object.They are called MATERIAL NOUNS. Such are glass,

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Chapter 01Part of Speech - NounLesson 1: Name wordIn the more simple state of the Arabs, the nation is free, because each of her sons disdains a base submission to the will of a master.By examining this sentence we notice several words used as names. The plainest name is Arabs, which belongs to a people; but, besides this one, the words sons and master name objects, and may belong to any of those

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