2. PART, 1. Person, 2. Number, 3. Tense, PARSING: THIRD MODEL. FORMS. 1. The Noun, Significant (Common) or Accidental (Proper). Masculine or Feminine; Either or Neither. Why it is in that case. 2. The Verb. Active (Transitive or Intransitive) or Substantive. 4. Mood, 5. Voice, Present, Past, or Future (Indefinite, Progressive, or Perfect). Indicative, Subjunctive, or Imperative. 6. Principal Parts, Present Tense, Past Tense, and Com 7. Conjugation, 8. Subject, .. 1. KIND, plete Participle. Weak, Strong, or Irregular. A Noun (or equivalent) in Nominative (2.) Infinitive (Indefinite, Progressive, or (3.) Participle (Indefinite, Perfect, or Complete): Active or Passive: Principal Parts, etc. 3. The Adjective. Demonstrative, Qualitative, or 2. THE THING DESCRIBED, Named by a Noun (or equivalent). 1. KIND, 2. CORRELATIVE, Personal (1st or 2d), Demonstrative, or Relative: Simple or Compound. The Noun it relates to, or stands for. 3. NUMBER, GENDER, AND CASE, as of a Noun. 2. THE NOTION MODIFIED, Expressed by a Verb, an Adjec 1. THE NOTIONS RELATED, A Noun (or equivalent) — to a 1. KIND, Verb, an Adjective, or a Noun, etc. 7. The Conjunction. Co-ordinative or Subordinative. 2. THE WORDS OR CLAUSES connected. 8. The Interjection. Exercise 41. Sentences for PARSING. 1. Holy and heavenly thoughts shall counsel her. Shakespeare. 2. Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell.-Byron. 3. The better part of valour is discretion.-Shakespeare. 4. The boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had fled.-Hemans. 5. The steed along the drawbridge flies.-Scott. 6. I could hear my friend chide him for not finding out some work; but at the same time saw him put his hand in his pocket and give him sixpence.-Spectator. 7. I long for a repose which ever is the same.- Wordsworth. 8. Thou knowest my praise of nature most sincere, And that my raptures are not conjured up To serve occasions of poetic pomp, But genuine, and art partner of them all.—Cowper. 9. There were two fathers in this ghastly crew.-Byron. 10. When he read the note from the two ladies, he shook his head, and observed that an affair of this sort demanded the utmost circumspection.— Goldsmith. 11. What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than He 12. Whilst I was thus musing, I cast my eyes towards the summit of a rock that was not far from me, where I discovered one in the habit of a shepherd, with a little musical instrument in his hand.-Addison. 59 PART III.-SYNTAX. 136. Syntax treats of the relations which words bear to one another in sentences, and of the laws which determine the particular forms of words required in certain relations. 137. RULE I. The subject of a Verb is in the nominative case; as, John reads; We speak. (a) Nominative means "naming;" and the subject is in the nominative case, because it is the "naming part of the sentence. 138. RULE II. The number and person of a Verb depend upon the number and person of its subject; as, John reads; We speak. (a) "Reads is 3d person and singular number, because "John" is 3d person and singular number. Speak" is 1st person plural, because" we is 1st person plural. 66 (b) The number of the subject, and therefore of the verb, is in all cases determined by its meaning, not by its form. 139. RULE III. A Noun or Pronoun attributive to another noun signifying a different thing, is in the possessive case; as, Man's life; My book. 140. RULE IV. A Noun or Pronoun attributive to another noun signifying the same thing is in apposition with it, and they agree in number and in case, and when possible also in gender; as, I, Victoria, statute and ordain; King Harold was defeated by William the Conqueror. 141. RULE V. The gender, number, and person, of a Personal or a Demonstrative Pronoun depend upon those of the word to which it refers; its case depends upon its own relation to the rest of the sentence; as, The Duke lost his son; We have written our letters; The queen has worn her crown. 142. RULE VI. The object of a Transitive Verb or of a Preposition is in the objective case; as, The tree fell on the ox, and killed him. 143. RULE VII. Adverbs modify verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs; as, He runs very quickly. 144. RULE VIII. Duration of time and extent of space are expressed by a Noun in the objective, without a preposition; as, We waited four hours; They walked miles without seeing a human habitation. 145. RULE IX. The Noun or Pronoun in an absolute phrase is in the nominative case; as, They being unprepared, we began the attack. (a) An Absolute Phrase consists of a noun or pronoun and a participle, which together express the time or cause of an action; as, spring returning (= when spring returns) the swallows re-appear. 146. RULE X. A Noun in the second person is in the vocative case, or nominative of address; as, Sing, Heavenly Muse! Exercise 42. Apply the proper RULES OF SYNTAX to the Constructions in Italics. 1. His father's sword he hath girded on. 2. Remember, |