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] is to be a scholar; _Being_ a _scholar_ is not _being_ an _idler_.
+Direction+.--_Study carefully the Definitions and the Remark above, and
then compose sentences in which a noun or a pronoun shall be put in the
nominative case in four ways; in the objective in five ways; in the
possessive in two ways_.
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LESSON 120.
ANALYSIS AND PARSING.
+Direction.+--_Analyze the following sentences, and give the case of each
noun and pronoun:_--
1. Not to know what happened before we were born is to be always a child.
2. His being a Roman saved him from being made a prisoner.
3. I am this day weak, though anointed king.
+Explanation.+--Nouns used adverbially are in the objective case because
equivalent to the principal word of a prepositional phrase. (See Lesson
35.)
4. What made Cromwell a great man was his unshaken reliance on God.
5. Amos, the herdsman of Tekoa, was not a prophet's son.
6. Arnold's success as teacher was remarkable.
+Explanation.+--_Teacher_, introduced by _as_ and used without a possessive
sign, is explanatory of _Arnold's_.
7. Worship thy Creator, God; and obey his Son, the Master, King, and
Saviour of men.
8. Bear ye one another's [Footnote: For the use of _one another_, see
Lesson 124.


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