MODEL FOR PARSING.

(a) Depth is a noun, etc., in the nom. case independent by way of exclamation.-Rule V, Note 2.

Section 4.

The nominative case independent by way of pleonasm.

EXAMPLES.

1. My banks, they are furnished with bees (a).

2. Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.

3. He that formed the eye, shall he not see? He that formed the ear, shall he not hear?

4. He that hath ears let him hear.

5. Now Ben he loved a pretty maid, Her name was Nelly Gray.

6. The wind-flower and the violet, They perished long ago.

7. The night it was gloomy, the wind it was high. 8. The fathers! where are they?

9. The little sprouting oak-tree, Two leaves it had at first.

10. The boy that saw the acorn fall, He feeble grew and gray.

11. Well have they done their office, those bright hours.

12. The employment he held in Asia Minor and Pamphylia, what did it produce but the ruin of those countries?

13. Custom, fashion, popular favor; these are the things that fill his entire vision and decide every question of opinion and duty.

MODEL FOR PARSING.

(a) Banks is in the nominative case independent by way of pleonasm.

Section 5.

The nominative case independent by way of inscription.

EXAMPLES.

5.

1. Brown's Grammar (a). 2. Webster's Dictionary. 3. Reed's Shoe Store. 4. The Tallmadge House. Arsenic [written as a label].

MODEL FOR PARSING.

(a) Grammar is in the nominative case independent by way of inscription.-Rule V, Note 4.

Section 6.

The nominative case independent in connection with participles and infinitives; otherwise called the nominative case absolute.

(a) The nominative case absolute before participles.

EXAMPLES.

1. Shame being lost, all virtue is lost (a).

(a) Shame is a noun, etc., in the nom. case absolute, being placed before the participle being lost, and being independent of the rest of the sentence.-Rule V, Note 5.

2. Our candles being now all lighted, and the whole place being completely illuminated, never could the eye be presented with a more magnificent spectacle.

3. But [he being] watch-worn and weary, his cares flew away.

4. All obstacles having been overcome, the work prospered.

5. Light after light sliding through the gloom, the whole hemisphere was brilliantly bespangled.

6. Soldier rest, thy warfare [being] o'er,

Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking.

7. The fame of Flor Silin's benevolence having reached other villages, the famished inhabitants presented themselves before him.

8. [He] turning his head, his eye glanced rapidly over the universe; the sun [being] far sunk behind him, the moon [being] under his feet, the earth [being] spread out in prospect before him, and the whole firmament glittering with constellations above.

9. At midnight, in his guarded tent,

The Turk was dreaming of the hour

When Greece, her knee in suppliance [being] bent,
Should tremble at his power.

10. There art thou like a satiate conqueror Recumbent on the murmuring deep, thy smiles [being]

All unrepentant of the savage wreck.

11. The spars, [being] formed into trees and shrubs, presented a kind of petrified grove; some [being] white, some [being] green, and all receding in due perspective. 12. And now her wealth and finery [(a)] fled, Her hangers-on [(a)] cut short all,

Her doctors found, when she was dead,

Her last disorder mortal.—Goldsmith.

(a) Supply "being."

13. They see here a real divinity; her altars rising on every hand throughout these happy states; her glories []

chanted by three millions of tongues; and the whole region smiling under her blessed influence.--Patrick Henry.

14. I have seen a good old father, his locks [] white as snow, his steps [] slow and trembling, beg his only son to quit the lurking place of the worm.

15. The lessons [] over, writing began.

16. [] Having nothing within himself whence to draw enjoyment, his [the sinner's] only resource is in things without.-Blair.

17. Commerce having thus got into the legislature, privilege must be done away.-Lord Mansfield.

18. After some time this paroxysm ceasing, we again stood up in order to prosecute our voyage to Euphemia, which lay within sight.—Goldsmith.

(b) The nominative case absolute after a participle.

EXAMPLES.

1. I was not aware of the young man's being your son (a).

2. I had not heard of your having been appointed collector.

3. Your being a parent involves the duty of providing for your children.

4. The keeping of bad company was the cause of his becoming a drunkard.

MODEL FOR PARSING.

(a) Son is a noun, etc., in the nom. case absolute after the participle being.-Rule V, Note 5.

(c) The nominative case absolute after an infinitive.

EXAMPLES.

1. To be a teacher involves great responsibility (a). 2. To become a good scholar requires much labor. 3. He is ambitious to become an orator.

MODEL FOR PARSING.

(a) Teacher is a noun, etc., in the nom. case absolute after the infinitive to be.

ARTICLE XIX.

APPOSITION.

Section 1.

The apposition of a noun with a noun.

EXAMPLES.

1. John the Baptist was beheaded (a).

2. Peter the Hermit preached the first crusade.

3. Prince Albert was the husband of Queen Victoria.

4. In the fifth century, the Franks, a people of Gerinvaded Gaul.

many,

5. Jerusalem, the Jewish capital, was destroyed by the Romans under Titus, the son of the emperor Vespasian.

6. And there was with us a young man, a Hebrew, the captain of the guard.