EXERCISES

I. I have not loved the world.

2. Years steal fire from the mind.

3. Heaven gives its favorites early death. 4. Charity shall cover a multitude of sins.

5. The tongue can no man tame.

6. Evil communications corrupt good manners.

7. Out of thine own mouth, I will judge thee.

8. I wish you prosperity with better taste.

9. The martial airs of England encircle still the earth.

10. Men may come and men may go, but I go on forever.

II. And from his ashes may be made

The violet of his native land.

12. Unto dying eyes

The casement slowly grows a glimmering square.

13. God gives us love. Something to love he lends us.

14. Your old men shall dream dreams.

shall see visions.

15. I built my soul a lordly pleasure house.

Your young men

16. I will live the life of the righteous and die the death of

the holy.

17. They ask me no questions, and I tell them no lies.

18. Here once the embattled farmers stood,

And fired the shot heard round the world.

19. A thing of beauty is a joy forever;

Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness.

20. Through life's dark road his sordid way he wends, An incarnation of fat dividends.

21. The selfish defeat themselves; the generous win the selves abiding friendships.

22. Merry elves, their morrice pacing,

23.

Trip it deft and merrily.

I have fought a good fight; I have run a hard race ; have finished the course.

24. Love taught him shame ;

Shame taught the sweet civilities of life.

25. She loved the offender and forgave the offence.

26. He struck me plainly; I could too well feel his blow.

27. Sorrow had struck too many blows upon this face and made the deeper wounds.

28. A plucky man will never strike his foe a blow in the back.

29. The rustic beauty queens it in her little world.

30. I sit me down a pensive hour to spend.

31. I do forgive thee thy rankest fault, and pay thee all the debt.

32. My husband hies him home; thither will I wend my way.

33. Men, wives, and children, stare, cry out, and run.

34. I will stare him out of his wits.

35. We run ourselves aground.

36. I cry your honor mercy.

You will never run mad.
She cried herself weary.

37. My nearer brother pined, his mighty heart declined. 38. I must decline your generous offer.

V. OBJECTIVE OR FACTITIVE PREDICATE

verb

A certain class of transitive verbs signifying, in gen- Factitive -al, to make or to cause, and hence called factitive erbs, seem to leave an assertion incomplete even after n object is expressed, and we expect some descriptive word to be added:

These added words are evidently descriptive modifiers of the direct object, and are made so through the verb. From the second sentence in the respective pairs, it is seen that the added word is really a part of the predicate, completing its meaning:

Examples in which verbs are derived from corresponding adjectives may make this still plainer:

He makes the path straight He straightens the path.

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They painted the house red They reddened the house.

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Illustrations

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predicate

Factitive A ncun or an adjective, or an equivalent of either thus brought by a factitive verb into relation with the direct object as a modifier at the same time complet ing the predicate, is called an objective, or factitive predicate.

Passivé voice

As and for

A factitive verb in the passive voice becomes a copulative verb, and the predicate objective becomes a predicate nominative, still modifying what was the object of the active, but is now the subject of the passive verb:

They beat him dead. He was beaten dead.
The sun turns vinegar more sour.

more sour.

Vinegar is turned

Attention held them mute. They were held mute.
He named his son John. His son was named John.

Sometimes as or for is used as a sort of connective,

introductory introductory to a predicate objective:

Verbs made factitive

They elected Mr. Smith as chairman.

They chose for mayor the wealthiest citizen.
He selected his six sons as pall-bearers.
His six sons were selected as pall-bearers.
The wealthiest citizen was chosen for mayor.

Many verbs, not ordinarily meaning to make, to cause, or to bring about by the action which the verb expresses, assume such a meaning and take a predicate objective:

She sweeps the floor clean.

Lightning struck him blind.

The cold weather froze the roads dry.
They sang their throats sore.

Intransitive verbs, as well as transitive, frequently become factitive, especially by the addition of a reflexive object :·

They danced themselves ill.

The prisoner shot himself dead.
Children run themselves weary.
The wind sighed itself to rest.

RULE VII. — A word brought by a factitive verb into Rule relation with the direct object as a modifier, is called an objective or factitive predicate; and if this word is a noun or pronoun it is in the objective case (or in the possessive, and substituted for a word in the objective).

The predicate objective regularly follows the object Place which it modifies.

The factitive predicate must not be confounded with Factitive and the adjective modifying the object appositively :

We found the child sleeping.

You see the clouds flying, accumulated, fallen.

appositive

complement

Nor must it be confounded with a noun or adjective the or complement of the infinitive to be understood, and modifying a word, at the same time subject of the infinitive and object of the predicate verb: —

We thought her (to be) dying.

We believed him (to be) an honest man.

It is sometimes difficult to draw the line. A verb Doubtful may be a factitive verb and take an objective predi

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