The _book lies_ on the desk--The _cloak hangs_ on the wall--_Man's days
are_ few--_Cathmor's warriors sleep_ in death--_Caltho reposes_ in the
narrow house--Jocund _day stands_ tiptoe on the misty mountain tops. The
_sunbeams rest_ on the grave where her _beauty sleeps_.
You may parse these and the preceding exercises, and all that follow,
_five or six times over_, if you please.
OBJECTIVE CASE.--ACTIVE-TRANSITIVE VERBS.
The _objective_ case expresses the object of an action or of a
relation. It generally follows a transitive verb, a participle, or a
preposition.
A noun is in the objective case when it is the _object_ of something. At
present I shall explain this case only as the object of an _action_; but
when we shall have advanced as far as to the preposition, I will also
illustrate it as the object of a _relation_.
An active verb is _transitive_ when the action passes over from the
subject or nominative to an object; as, Richard _strikes_ John.
_Transitive_ means _passing_. In this sentence the action of the verb
_strikes_ is _transitive_, because it _passes over_ from the nominative
Richard to the object John; and you know that the noun John is in the
_objective_ case, because it is _the object of the action_ expressed by
the active-transitive verb strikes.
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