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OBJE CT.

[Par. I9.

rascal." Here "rascal" answers to the question
"who?" (not "whom? ") and is not called the
Object of " seems." See Par. 147.
EXERCISE IV. (SPECIMEN).
Find out the Objects of the italicized Verbs and
Prepositions in the following Exercise -
Next day the Persians attacked the Greeks again, but to no
purpose. Not the slightest impression did they make
on the little Greek phalanx. Their gold and silver
armor was no match for the steel spears of the brave
Greeks. Besides, the Greeks were fighting for their
country, while the Persians did not want to fight, and
were driven to the battle with the lash. So the sun set
again, and Xerxes found that he was again defeated.
But, that night, while the king was angrily thinking
that he should have to retreat, a traitor came to his tent
and offered to show him a path over the mountains, by
which the Persians might come down behind the Greeks,
-and thus (might) attack them in the rear as well as in
front. At once, a Persian battalion set out under the
guidance of the traitor, and by sunrise next morning, the
Persians, with two vast hosts, had shut in1 the little
band of Greeks between the sea, the mountains, and their
enemies.
"Attacked whom?" " The Greeks," Object.
"They did (not) make what? "2 "The slightest impression," Object.
1 "Shut in " is one Compound Verb. See How to Tell the Parts
of Speech, p. 77.
2 See Note on page 10.
The term " Object" includes not merely the Noun, but the whole
of the answer to the question " whom? " or " what? " after the Verb.
The Noun-part of the Object may, fr convenience, be called the
Noun-Object, and may be stated separately, if desired, e.g., "the