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NO UNS.

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II. USE or CASE:
Subject or Object, or Possessive or Vocative.
III. REASON FOR CASE:
(1) Subject of what Verb.
(2) Object of what Verb or Preposition.
(3) Defining what Nounz.
Notice that a Possessive Noun often has an Adjective
joined to it: e.g. "this boy's book." Here " this " points
out " boy's " not "book."
EXERCISE.
Parse the Nouns and Pronouns in Exercise XII.,
those marked * as well as others, thus: -
Noun 1. Subject of V.
or Number. Use or Case. 2. Object of V. or P.
Pronoun. 3. Defining N.
Harry's Singular Possessive efforts
efforts Plural Subject had exhausted
him Singular Object had exhausted
Answer the rest for yourself.
1 For example: "The sun's bright light." Here "sun's" is
Possessive, pointing out clearly, or defining, " light."
3

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