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The nominative to a passive verb, is the _object_, but not the _agent_,
of the action.
A verb is intransitive when it has no object; as, "The waters _came_
upon me;" "I _am_ he who _was_, and _is_, and _is_ to _come_."
As an exercise on what you have been studying, I will now put to you a
few questions, all of which you ought to be able to answer before you
proceed any farther.
QUESTIONS NOT ANSWERED IN PARSING.
With what two general divisions of grammar does the second lecture
begin?--Of what does Etymology treat?--Of what does Syntax treat?--On
what is based the true principle of classification?--How do you
ascertain the part of speech to which a word belongs?--What is meant by
its _manner_ of meaning?--Name the ten parts of speech.--Which of these
are considered the most important?--By what sign may a noun be
distinguished?--How many kinds of nouns are there?--What belong to
nouns?--What is gender?--How many genders have nouns?--What is
person?--How many persons have nouns?--What is number?--How many numbers
have nouns?--What is case?--How many cases have nouns?--Does case
consist in the _inflections_ of a noun?--How many kinds of verbs are
there?--By what sign may a verb be known?--What belong to verbs?--What
is synthesis?--What is analysis?--What is parsing?--Repeat the order of
parsing the noun.
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