Remarks.

'unto' understood; as, 'she is like (unto) her sister,' 'she is unlike (to) her mother.'

In this sentence the nouns (a) Smith and bookseller and the pronoun he are in apposition with each other, and nominative case to the verb has. The pronoun me in both instances is governed by the preposition 'to' implied. Entitled and promised are both passive participles,—the former relating to the noun volume, and the latter relating to the pronoun he. (See Syntax on relation.) The words Canterbury and steel are nouns used adjectively, qualifying Tales and pens respectively.

In sentences like (b) himself is a reflective pronoun, objective case of cut. In sentences like (c) himself is an emphatic pronoun, nominative case, in apposition with 'he.' (See Classification.)

In sentences like (d) the noun James is in the first person, and in apposition with the pronoun Sarah is in the second person, and in apposition with thee.

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In sentences like (e) the noun brother may be parsed in the possessive case, having the possessive sign understood, and in apposition with Philip's. Or the two nouns may be taken together and parsed as a compound noun in the possessive case, governed by wife. (See Syntax.)

When two objective cases follow a transitive verb, one is governed by the verb and the other by a preposition. In sentence (f) ‘possessions' is in the objective case, governed by 'gave,' and 'him' is governed by the preposition 'to' understood.

PARSING TABLE.

ARTICLE.

PARTICIPLE.

1. Tell whether definite or inde- 1. Tell whether present or passive.

finite.

2. Tell what noun it limits or re

lates to.

NOUN.

1. Tell whether proper, common,

&c.

2. Tell its gender.

3. its person.

4.

its number.

its case.

5.

6.

2. Tell what verb or participle it is used after, or what other participle it is auxiliary to.

3. Tell what noun or pronoun it relates to.

ADVERB.

1. Tell its kind, whether of time, place, &c.

what it is nom. to, or gov. by. 2. Tell what word it modifies or

relates to.

Note. An adverb may modify a verb, an adjective, a participle, or another adverb.

PREPOSITION.

Tell what words it shows the relation between.

CONJUNCTION.

1. Tell whether copulative or disjunctive.

2. Tell what it connects.

3. If there be a corresponding conjunction, name it.

INTERJECTION.

Tell what it expresses, whether joy, sorrow, &c., or whether used in addressing.

COMPOUND VERBAL EXPRESSIONS.
1. Parse each word separately.
2. Take the whole in a combined
form, stating the effect or
meaning of the entire expres-
sion.

EXAMPLES OF PARSING.

Note. The most difficult words in each passage are printed in Italics, and only those need be parsed; the other words present no difficulty and are therefore omitted in the parsing.

EXAMPLE 1.

Resolve me, why the cottager and king,

He whom sea-sever'd realms obey, and he
Who steals his whole dominion from the waste,
Repelling winter blasts with mud and straw,
Disquieted alike, draw sigh for sigh.-Young.

Transposition and Ellipsis.

Resolve (thou to) me, why the cottager, he who steals his whole dominion from the waste, repelling winter blasts with mud and (with) straw, and (the) king, he whom sea-sever'd realms obey, disquieted alike, draw sigh for sigh.

*The rules of syntax here used are taken from the Grammar of English Grammars,'

EXAMPLE 2.

O thou fond many! with what loud applause Didst thou beat heav'n with blessing Bolingbroke, Before he was what thou wouldst have him be.