6. The drawings of the sister of the wife of my brother have been much
admired.
_Of_ is not always equivalent to the (_'s_),
+Explanation+.--_The president's reception_ means the reception given by
the president, but _the reception of the president_ means the reception
given to the president.
+Direction+.--_Construct sentences illustrating the meaning of the
following expressions_:--
A mother's love, the love of a mother; a father's care, the care of a
father; my friend's picture, a picture of my friend.
+Caution+.--Often ambiguity may be prevented by changing the assumed
subject of a participle from a nominative or an objective to a possessive.
+Direction+.--_Correct these errors_:--
1. The writer being a scholar is not doubted.
+Correction+.--This is ambiguous, as it may mean either that the writer is
not doubted because he is a scholar, or that the writer's scholarship is
not doubted. It should be, _The writer's being_ [Footnote: The participle
may be modified not only, as here, by a noun in the possessive but by the
articles _a_ and _the_---as said in Lesson 37. Whether it be _the imposing
a tax_ or _the issuing a paper currency.--Bagehot_. Not _a making war_ on
them, not _a leaving them_ out of mind, but _the putting_ a new
_construction_ upon them, _the taking them_ from under the old conventional
point of view.
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