Thus you perceive,
that _Case_ means the different state or situation of nouns with regard
to other words.
It is sometimes very difficult to tell the case of a noun. I shall,
therefore, take up this subject again, when I come to give you an
explanation of the participle and preposition.
Besides the three cases already explained, nouns are sometimes in the
nominative case _independent_, sometimes in the nominative case
absolute, sometimes in apposition in the same case, and sometimes in the
nominative or objective case after the neuter to _be_, or after an
active-intransitive or passive verb. These cases are illustrated in
Lecture X. and in the 21 and 22 rules of Syntax.
ACTIVE-INTRANSITIVE VERBS.
An active verb is _transitive_, when the action terminates on an object:
but
An active verb is _intransitive_, when the action does _not_ terminate
on an object; as, John _walks_.
You perceive that the verb _walks_, in this example, is _intransitive_,
because the action does not pass over to an object; that is, the action
is confined to the agent John. The following _sign_ will generally
enable you to distinguish a _transitive_ verb from an _intransitive_.
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