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"A work on english grammar and composition"

What
is the Caution relating to gender?
_Lesson_ 119.--What is Person? Is the person of nouns marked by form?
Define the three persons. When is a noun in the first person? In the second
person? What classes of words have distinctive person forms? Why is person
regarded in grammar? What is Case? Define the three cases. What is the case
of a noun used independently? Of an explanatory modifier? Of an objective
complement? Of a noun or pronoun used as attribute complement? Illustrate
all these.
_Lesson_ 121.--What is Parsing? Illustrate the parsing of nouns.
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LESSON 144.
REVIEW QUESTIONS.
_Lesson_ 122.--How many case forms have nouns, and what are they? How is
the possessive of nouns in the singular formed? Of nouns in the plural?
Illustrate. What is the possessive sign? To which word of compound names or
of groups of words treated as such is the sign added? Illustrate. Instead
of the possessive form, what may be used? Illustrate.
_Lesson_ 123.--In what case alone can mistakes in the construction of nouns
occur? Illustrate the Cautions relating to possessive forms.
_Lesson_ 124.--What is Declension? Decline _girl_ and _tooth_. Decline the
several personal pronouns, the relative and the interrogative.


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