103. Sometimes a verb has two objects, one Direct and the other Indirect. In the following examples, the direct objects are printed in capitals, and the indirect in italics. EXAMPLES.-1. They gave the rascal a WHIPPING for his pains. 2. I will ask the teacher a civil QUESTION. 3. He paid the boy his MONEY. 4. I gave the young man his CHOICE. (a.) MODEL FOR PARSING." They gave the rascal a whipping." Rascal is a noun, third person, singular number, and indirect object of the verb gave. Whipping is a participial noun, direct object of the verb gave. (See 97.) QUESTIONS AND EXERCISES. Parse the objective nouns in the examples under 98. What can you say about the gender, person, and number of verbal nouns ? What may you omit in parsing them? Parse the objective nouns in examples under 99. Parse son, brother, man, people, queen, and Arthur in examples under 101. Parse rascal, whipping, teacher, question, boy, money, man, and choice in examples under 103. LESSON XVIII COMPLEMENT.-ESSENTIAL ELEMENT OF A PHRASE. III. 104. A noun may be the Complement of a Neuter Verb or Participle. (See Lesson VI.) EXAMPLES.-1. He is a hero. 2. That is the lad 3. We are men. 4. The negro was a slave. 5. These are robbers. 6. My amusement is skating. 7. Boys soon become men. 8. It seemed a star. 9. They will be friends. 105. When the complement of a neuter verb is a noun, it always represents the same person or thing that its subject does. (See examples above.) IV. 106. A noun may be the Essential Element of a Phrase. (See Lesson VII.) EXAMPLES.-1. In the house, under the mill, upon the bridge, through the air. 2. In XANADU, did Kubla Khan 3. "Sam heard the cocking of a PISTOL, but did not pause for the Report. He scrambled over ROCK and STONE, through BRUSH and BRIER, and rolled down BANKS like a HEDGEHOG.”—Irving. QUESTIONS AND EXERCISES. What is a neuter sentence? verb limit? (See Lesson VI.) whose complements are nouns. What does the complement of a neuter essential elements of phrases. How many parts has a phrase? (See Lesson VII.) Parse the nouns in the following examples. MODELS FOR PARSING.-"He was the leader of a mob." (a.)—-Leader is a noun, masculine gender, third person, singular number, and complement of a neuter verb. (b.)-Mob is a noun, third person, singular number, and essential element of a phrase. 1. "Night came down on Morven. Fingal sat at the beam of the oak. Morni sat by his side, with all his gray, waving locks. Their words were of other times, of the mighty deeds of their fathers."-Ossian. 2. "A false balance is abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is his delight. 3. "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction."-Proverbs. 4. "A wit's a feather, and a chief a rod; An honest man's the noblest work of God."-Pope. NOTE. In this last quotation wit's and man's are contractions for wit is and man is. Observe that in Example No. 3 above, beginning is a participial noun. LESSON XIX. PHRASE WITHOUT CONNECTIVE.-FIRST KIND.-SECOND KIND.-EXAMPLES OF BOTH KINDS. 107. TO THE TEACHER.-This lesson may be omitted until review, if thought best. The latter part of it, especially, supposes a knowledge of adjectives and participles. The phrases explained in this lesson are always adverbial. 108. A phrase may have no connective. 109. Phrases without connectives are of two kinds. 1. 110. A Noun denoting Time or Place is sometimes used as the essential element of a phrase without a connective. EXAMPLES.-1. We waited a week. 2. He studied three years. 3. "After sitting some time, the party paid for the refreshment they had taken, and departed.". 4. "I uttered this tirade one day." 5. "Four times the sun had risen and set." 6. "That night I rode eight leagues." 7. One morning, after we had walked a few miles, we rested a while in the shade. (a.) MODEL FOR PARSING.-"We waited a week." Week is a noun, third person, singular number, and essential element of a phrase without a connective. (See 110.) 2. 111. A phrase without a connective may consist of a Noun or pronoun and an Adjective or a Participle. 112. This construction is called by most grammarians a "Noun independent with a participle," but as the expression always shows time, cause, condition, or accompanying action, it is evidently adverbial. It will be found in nearly all cases to be equivalent to an adverbial sentence. EXAMPLES.-1." But the night, her TASK completed, stole away on lightest tip-toe" (equivalent in sense to, when her task was completed). 2. The MORNING dawning, we resumed our journey (equivalent in sense to, when the morning dawned). 3. My HEALTH failing, I retired from business. 4. "Now the inflated wave Straining they scale, and now impetuous shoot The wintry BALTIC thundering o'er their head." (a.) MODEL FOR PARSING." But the night, her task completed," etc. Night is a noun, third person, singular number, and essential element of a phrase without a connective. EXERCISES AND EXAMPLES. Parse the nouns in the previous examples in this lesson. Parse the nouns in the following exercises. 1. "They made her a grave too cold and damp For a soul so warm and true; And she's gone to the lake of the dismal swamp, She paddles her white canoe."-Moore. 2. "A while their route they silent made." 3. "Darkness coming upon us, we pitched our tents." 4. "The rod was twelve feet s long." 5. The danger being past, we re-entered the forest. 6. The Trojans, who stood upon their guard all the while the Grecians lay before their city, when they fancied the siege was raised and the danger past, were, the very next night, burnt in their beds.-Spectator. NOTES AND REFERENCES.-' Night is the essential element of a phrase without a connective. It limits long. (See 110.) While is here a noun. 3 Feet is the essential element of a phrase without a connective, limiting long. The sentence is, "Rod was long." |