+Direction.+--_Punctuate these expressions, and employ each of them in a
sentence_:--
See Remark, Lesson 21. Omit _or_, and note the effect.
1. Palestine or the Holy Land ----.
2. New York or the Empire State ----.
3. New Orleans or the Crescent City ----.
4. The five Books of Moses or the Pentateuch ----.
+Remember+ that (_'s_) and (_'_) are the possessive signs--(_'_) being used
when _s_ has been added to denote more than one, and (_'s_) in other cases.
+Direction.+--_Copy the following, and note the use of the possessive
sign_:--
The lady's fan; the girl's bonnet; a dollar's worth; Burns's poems; Brown &
Co.'s business; a day's work; men's clothing; children's toys; those girls'
dresses; ladies' calls; three years' interest; five dollars' worth.
+Direction.+--_Make possessive modifiers of the following words, and join
them to appropriate nouns_:--
Woman, women; mouse, mice; buffalo, buffaloes; fairy, fairies; hero,
heroes; baby, babies; calf, calves.
+Caution.+--Do not use (_'s_) or (_'_) with the pronouns _its, his, ours,
yours, hers, theirs_.
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LESSON 35.
NOUNS AS ADVERB MODIFIERS.
+Introductory Hints.+--_He gave me a book_. Here we have what many
grammarians call a _double object_.
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