Questions is the retained object of the passive verb,

asked.

NOTE 2.-Verbs or verbals of calling, choosing, making, regarding, showing, and the like, admit of a secondary object of the same person or thing; as,

Rousseau calls the human voice the warder of the mind.

Willis.

1. The secondary object may be an adjective agreeing with noun implied.

Good humor makes all things tolerable. · Beecher.

2. In the passive form of the verb the secondary object becomes a predicate noun; as, —

Washington is called the father of his country.

VI. A noun or pronoun used as the indirect object of an action is in the objective case.

The preposition to or for is commonly used with the indirect object.

With verbs of giving, sending, telling, the indirect object is generally used without the proposition to or for.

In the best books great men talk to us and give us their most precious thoughts. Channing.

VII. A noun used to express the adverbial relations of time, price, space, and the like, is in the objective

case.

1. Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. Mann.

2.

Ye mariners of England!

That guard our native seas;

Whose flag has braved a thousand years,
The battle and the breeze. - Campbell.

VIII. A noun or pronoun used with a preposition is in the objective case.

June falls asleep upon her bier of flowers. - Larcom.

IX. A noun or pronoun used to denote ownership, authorship, or similar relation, is in the possessive case. 1. Vain was the chief's, the sage's pride.

They had no poet and they died. — Pope.

2. They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works. Burton.

X. A predicate noun or pronoun agrees in case with the subject whose meaning it describes or defines.

Experience is the best schoolmaster. Coleridge.

XI. An appositive agrees in case with the noun or pronoun whose meaning it describes or defines.

Time, the prime minister of death,

There's naught can bribe his honest will. Marvell.

XII. A verb agrees with its subject in number and person.

All truths are not to be told. - Herbert.

NOTE 1. A verb with two or more singular subjects connected by an alternative conjunction agrees with them in the singular number.

Nor age, nor business, nor distress can erase this dear image from my imagination. - Steele.

NOTE 2. A verb with two or more singular subjects connected with a copulative conjunction generally agrees with them in the plural number.

Truth and fiction are so aptly mixed,

That all seems uniform and of a piece. — Roscommon.

NOTE 3.A verb having two or more singular subjects connected by a copulative conjunction may agree with them in the singular number when the subjects refer to the same, or to different views of the same, person or thing, or when two or more things are to be regarded as singular in idea.

1. A laggard in love and a dastard in war

Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar.-Scott. 2. The peace and good order of society was not promoted by the feudal system. - Hallam.

3. Friendship and esteem, founded on the merit of the object, is the most certain basis to build a lasting happiness upon. Arnold.

NOTE 4. When two or more singular subjects of different persons are connected by an alternative conjunction, the verb usually agrees in person with the nearest subject except when the nearest subject is the personal pronoun of the first person, singular, when the rule is usually reversed.

He or you are at fault.
You or he is at fault.

He or I is at fault.

You or I are at fault.

XIII. A pronoun agrees with its antecedent in gender, number, and person.

1. He who sows courtesy reaps friendship;

And he who plants kindness gathers love. Basil. 2. You who forget your own friends, meanly to follow after those of a higher degree, are a snob. Thackeray.

3. Proper respect for some persons is best preserved by avoiding their neighborhood. Curtis.

4. Woman was formed to be admired; man to be admirable. His are the glories of the sun at noonday; hers the softened splendors of the midnight moon.-Sidney.

XIV. An adjective is used to modify the meaning of a noun or pronoun.

1. American patriotism must be a household virtue.

2. Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

-Shakespeare.

XV. An adverb is used to modify the meaning of a verb or verbal, an adjective or adverb.

1. Our domestic affections are the most salutary basis of all good government. Beaconsfield.

2. A peace too eagerly sought is not always the sooner obtained. Burke.

XVI. A preposition is used with a noun, pronoun, or an equivalent construction to form a phrase expressing adverbial, adjective, or substantive relations.

The duty of labor is written on a man's body, in the stout muscle of the arm and the delicate machinery of the hand. - Parker.

XVII. A conjunction is used to join together sentences or parts of the same sentence.

1. Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man. Beaconsfield.

2. Her step is music, and her voice is song. Bailey.

PART V.

SENTENCES FOR ANALYSIS.

ANALYZE the following passages, giving the structure and syntax of each word:

1. It is the slovenliness of men and women which, for the most part, makes their lives so unsatisfactory. They do not sit at the loom with keen eye and deft finger; but they work listlessly and without a sedulous care to piece together, as they best may, the broken threads. We are apt to give up work too soon, to suppose that a single breakage has ruined the cloth. The men who get on in the world are not daunted by one nor a thousand breakages.

-The Saturday Review.

2. Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it an object of pursuit, and it leads us a wildgoose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it; but likely enough it is gone the moment we say to ourselves, "Here it is!" like the chest of gold treasure-seekers find. — Nathaniel Hawthorne.

3. The beauty of the hoar frost is nothing by itself, nothing on naked rock or mountain, nothing in the streets of the city, and out at sea it only is visible on the ship's cordage, if by accident it may whiten it for awhile; but on sylvan landscapes it settles like a fairy decoration. No human work is delicate enough to be compared with such delicacy