=Contingent:= If I might take
=Subjunctive= { =Potential:= If I could take
{ =Obligative:= If I must take
{ =Etc.=
=Present= { =Emphatic:= Do take
=Imperative= { =Progressive:= Be taking
=Verbals=
=Infinitive=
=Active Voice= =Passive Voice=
=Present:= To take To be taken
=Perfect:= To have taken To have been taken
=Gerund=
=Present:= Taking Being taken
=Perfect:= Having taken Having been taken
=Participle=
=Present:= Taking Being taken
=Past:= Taken
=Perfect:= Having taken Having been taken
Exercise:
Copy a page of good prose from any book, leaving wide spaces
between the lines. Indicate the part of speech of every word.
This may be done by abbreviations placed beneath the words. For
example:
"Von Arden, having fallen into a very unquiet
_noun_ _part._ _prep._ _art._ _adv._ _adj._
slumber, dreamed that he was an aged man
_noun_ _verb_ _conj._ _pers pro._ _verb_ _art._ _adj._ _noun_
who stood beside a window."
_rel. pro._ _verb_ _prep._ _art._ _noun_
=59.= EXERCISE IN GRAMMAR
=A. Case of Pronouns=
Determine the correct form of the pronoun.
1. It is (I, me).
2. No one knows better than (she, her).
3. Then came the whistle for Gerald and (I, me).
4. It was (they, them).
5. Alice can drive a car as well as (he, him).
6. It was (she, her) (who, whom) you saw on the car.
7. John, you may go with Dan and (I, me).
8. If I were (she, her), I could not think of accepting the
questionable honor.
9. One evening four of (we, us) girls decided to go to the
theater.
10. Others are older than (we, us).
11. (Who, Whom) do you imagine will be our next president?
12. He does not approve of (our, us) walking on the grass.
13. Counsel will be given to (they, them) who ask for it.
14. That seems strange to you and (I, me).
15. Her mother has more regular features than (she, her).
16. Women (who, whom) some peopl
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