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8 FORMS OF THE SUBJECT. [Par. II.

2. A group of Nouns connected by " and ": -
"Two and three make five." "You and I are
cousins."
3. A Noun-Phrase, or Noun-Clause: -
(1) " To write an exercise without afault requires much
care."
(2.) " That he was guilty was not proved." I
EXERCISE III.
Write down the Subjects of the italicized Verbs
in the following Exercise: —
"What is a pass " perhaps you ask. A narrow path with
steep mountains on both sides is called a pass. In this
case there * were mountains on one side, and, on the other
side, was a marshy place stretching down to the sea, so
that there * was only room for a cart or two to pass. In
such a place, to resist a host was an easy matter for a few *
brave men. But, just then, the Greeks were terrified.
To remain at Thermopylae seemed to them certain death;
so they determined to retreat. Then Leonidas, who was
king of the Spartans, when he found that he could not
persuade the other Greeks to remain, determined to remain
by himself with a few * brave Spartans, to resist Xerxes,
and to gain time for his countrymen. With him remained
about three hundred men, and the * rest * departed.
When Xerxes, after arriving at Tlermopyla, sawv the handful of Spartans prepared to resist him, he laughed at
them, and bade his soldiers bring them to him in chains.
But the Persian soldiers, on advancing to the charge,
found that their master was mistaken in his laughter.
1 The Noun-Clause in (2) may be called a Noun-Sentence, for convenience; but it must always be borne in mind that a Sentence
preceded by a Conjunction, so that it no longer states, questions, or
commands -ceases, strictly speaking, to be a Sentence, and becomes
a Clause. See the Definitions, p. xxviii. The word Phrase includes
Clause.