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of the sentence_ for its object: RULE 24. In the next example, _that my indiscretions should reach my posterity_, is a part of a sentence put as the nominative to the verb _wounds_, according to the same Rule. 2. The noun _sacrifice_, in the third example, is nom. after the active-intransitive verb _fell_: RULE 22. The noun _proprietors_, in the next sentence, is in the objective case, and put by apposition with _senate_ and _people_: RULE 7, or governed by _consider_, understood, according to RULE 35. 3. In the fifth example, _what_, following _proved_, is a compound relative. _Thing_, the antecedent part, is in the nom. case after _to be_, understood, and put by apposition with _he_, according to RULE 21, and NOTE. _Which_, the relative part, is in the obj. case after _to be_ expressed, and put by apposition with _him_, according to the same RULE. _Man_ is in the obj. case, put by apposition with _which_: RULE 7. The latter part of the sentence may be _literally_ rendered thus: He plainly appears to have proved _to be that base character which_ the prophet foresaw him to be, viz. a _man_ of violence, cruelty, and blood. The antecedent part of the first _what_, in the next sentence, is governed by _hides_; and _which_, the relative part, is governed by _know_ understood. The antecedent part of the second _what_, is governed by _hides_ understood, and the relative part is governed by _know_ expressed. 4. The first _he_, in the seventh example, is, in the opinion of some, nom. to _can hear_ understood; but Mr. N.R. Smith, a distinguished and acute grammarian, suggests the propriety of rendering the sentence thus; "He that formed the ear, _formed it to hear_; can he not hear?" The first _he_, in the last example, is redundant; yet the construction is sometimes admissible, for the expression is more forcible than it would be to say, "Let him hear who hath ears to hear;" and if we adopt the ingenious method of Mr. Smith, the sentence is grammatical, and may be rendered thus; "He that hath ears, _hath ears_ to hear; let him hear." EXERCISES IN PARSING. _Idioms, anomalies, and intricacies_. 1. "The wall is three _feet_ high." 2. "His son is eight _years_ old." 3. "My knife is worth a _shilling_." 4. "She is worth _him_ and all his _connexions_." 5. "He has been there three _times_." 6.
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