+DEFINITIONS+.
+_Case_ is that modification of a noun or pronoun which denotes its office
in the sentence+.
+The _Nominative Case of a noun or pronoun_ denotes its office as subject
or as attribute complement+.
+The _Possessive Case of a noun or pronoun_ denotes its office as
possessive modifier+.
+The _Objective Case of a noun or pronoun_ denotes its office as object
complement, or as principal word in a prepositional phrase+.
A noun or pronoun used independently is said to be in the nominative case.
+Examples+.--I am, _dear madam_, your friend. Alas, _poor Yorick_! _He
being dead_, we shall live. _Liberty_, it has fled! (See Lesson 44.)
A noun or pronoun used as explanatory modifier is in the same case as the
word explained--"is put by apposition in the same case."
+Examples+.--The first colonial _Congress_, _that_ of 1774, addressed the
_King_, _George III_. He buys is goods at _Stewart's_, the dry-goods
_merchant_.
A noun or pronoun used as objective complement is in the objective case.
+Examples+.--They made him _speaker_. He made it _all_ it is.
A noun or pronoun used as attribute complement of a participle or an
infinitive is in the same case (_Nom._ or _Obj._) as the word to which it
relates as attribute.
Pages:
304
305
306
307
308
309
310
311
312
313
314
315
316
317
318
319
320
321
322
323
324
325
326
327
328