--_Matthew Arnold_. Poltroonery is _the acknowledging_ an
_infirmity_ to be incurable.--_Emerson_. _The giving_ away a man's
_money_.--_Burke_. It is not _the finding of a thing_ but _the making
something_ out of it, after it is found, that is of consequence.--_Lowell_.
As seen in this last quotation, the participle may be followed by a
preposition and so become a pure noun (Lesson 38).] _a scholar_ is not
doubted, or _That the writer is a scholar_ is not doubted.
2. I have no doubt of the writer being a scholar.
3. No one ever heard of that man running for office.
4. Brown being a politician prevented his election.
5. I do not doubt him being sincere.
6. Grouchy being behind time decided the fate of Waterloo.
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LESSON 124.
NUMBER AND CASE FORMS.
Declension.
+DEFINITION.--_Declension_ is the arrangement of the cases of nouns and
pronouns in the two numbers+.
+Direction+.--_Learn the following declensions_:--
Declension of Nouns.
LADY. BOY. MAN.
_Singular. Plural. Singular. Plural. Singular. Plural_.
Nom. lady, ladies, boy, boys, man, men,
Pos. lady's, ladies', boy's, boys', man's, men's,
Obj.
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