her A noun and appositive, - My son's, Captain Scapegrace's, bills. My son John's plantation. A noun and phrase, - The King of Denmark's ride. Two or more nouns indicating joint possession, — Mary and her mother's journey. Two or more nouns indicating separate possession, Raphael's and Michael Angelo's paintings. Noun with modified word understood, — He is at the baker's. Double possessive, i.e. possessive case after of,- A friend of mine. Books of Scott's and Johnson's. 4. These jewels, the late queen's, I, her successor, will shortly make yours. (successor) (queen's) jewels These L Possessive expressions EXERCISES 1. Knowledge is sorrow's spy. 2. Words are wise men's counters; they are fool's money. 3. Pity's the straightest path to a woman's love. 4. Man is his own star; our acts are our angels. 5. Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine. 6. 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands. 7. I shall not let women's weapons, water drops, stain my man's cheeks. 8. I do not set my life at a pin's fee. 9. Our castle's strength will laugh a siege to scorn. 10. The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof. II. They invited me in the emperor their master's name. 12. People are usually disappointed on their first view of St. Peter's. 13. Those lectures of Lowell's had a great influence with me. 14. Milton lost his sight in liberty's defence a noble task. 15. The privilege is not theirs, nor is it yours. 16. Thy Maker's will has placed thee there, A Maker wise and good. 17. Men's and women's minds are constituted differently. 18. Thou art freedom's now and fame's. the king's or the peasant's, is his castle. A man's house, 19. Charity seeketh not her own. 20. No words of ours can describe the fury of the conflict. 21. This ancient silver bowl of mine tells of good old times. 22. That tongue of thine is not the shortest limb about thee. 23. This same skull was Yorick's skull, the king's jester. 24. I shall confirm the crown mine and my heirs' forever. 25. It is enough: I may call her mine. 26. Every subject's duty is the King's; but every subject's soul is his own. VIII. ADVERBS verb As the adjective is the usual modifier of the subject Adverb with and object of a sentence, so the simple adverb is the most frequent modifier of the predicate verb. It modifies this, however, in only one way, being joined to it Place directly. It may either precede or follow the simple verb. It may follow the auxiliary, or precede the participle in compound verb forms, according to emphasis, euphony, and the presence or absence of other modifiers: He rarely spoke. He spoke emphatically. He might easily have been captured. He might then have been captured easily. The adverb usually follows the direct object: Take her up tenderly. Sometimes the adverb is placed at the beginning of Beginning the sentence, as in this statement; or in Then they came back again. Thus saith the Lord. Adverbs (except enough) modifying adjectives and Before other adverbs are placed immediately before them: — The man was curiously jolly. adjectives Preposition Substantive The adverb sometimes qualifies other parts of speech or constructions: A preposition or a phrase, We went far beyond our destination. They began much (nearly) at the same time. A noun or pronoun attributively, — They are more themselves than usual. The almost terror of his looks astonished us. Note. In the expressions, I am here, You are there, the adverbs, sometimes construed as predicate adjectives, seem rather to retain their natural function, expressing the place of being. This is evident when we compare, You stand here, You lie here, You live here, You die here, You are here. The adverbs usually construed as appositive modifiers of nouns may be disposed of as modifying an appositive adjective or participle understood:He lives in the house (standing, being, found) next below. Or, as modifying the verb idea in the noun: — The adverb so is substituted for a noun, an adjective, So an adverb once used: She was a wife, but is no longer so. They are hungry, or soon will be so. The adverb (or adjective) only immediately precedes Only Only he eats his dinner (no one else). He only eats his dinner (does not waste). He eats dinner only (does nothing else). A few adjectives are coming to have a special use as Adjectives adverbs of degree: all and the, I am all the more astonished. this and that (= so), He will promise that much. They yield this much to religion. such (so), His eloquence gained him such universal popularity. pretty (= fairly), – You know him pretty well. mighty (= exceedingly), — You are mighty civil. as adverbs The adverb there is used as an expletive, or provi- There sional subject, the real subject coming after the verb: |