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Par. ii.] FORMS OF THE SUBJECT. 7
EXERCISE II.
Write down the Subjects of the italicized Verbs
in the following Exercise:When the heralds had arrived at the cities of Greece, and
delivered their message, they were received differently in
different places. Some cities gave earth and water,
because they were afraid of the Great King; others,
because they were jealous of their neighbors, and hoped
the Great King would help them and destroy their enemies. But the men of Athens and of Sparta would give
neither earth nor water. Indeed the Athenians were so
angry at the message, that they threw one of the heralds
into a pit, and bade him take his earth thence; another
they threw into a well, telling him that he could find
water there.
Xerxes, when he heard how his heralds had been treated, and
how the men of Athens and Sparta had refused earth and
water, determined at once to levy an army and to conquer
Greece. Never before was so vast a host collected. They
drank whole rivers dry.* The Hellespont, across which
they had to pass into Greece, was bridged with boats: a
promontory (its name was Mount Athos) was cut through
to give a passage to their fleet. And now this monstrous
army, amounting to a million at least, had penetrated
Greece, and was marching southward. Still no one
ventured to oppose them, and in a few days the hosts of
Xerxes, with undiminished numbers, had reached a pass
called Thermopylae.
II Different forms of the Subject.
The Subject may be -
x. A Noun, Pronoun, or Adjective put for Noun:"John runs," " He runs," " Who runs? "That is
a mistake."