_Adjectives belong_, &c.
_Badge_ is a noun com. neuter gender, third person, singular number, and
in the nominative case _after_ "is," and put by apposition with "mercy,"
according to RULE 21. _The verb to be may have the same case after it as
before it_.
_Of_ is a preposition, connecting "badge" and "nobility," and showing
the relation between them.
_Nobility_ is a noun of multitude, mas. and fem. gender, third person,
sing, and in the obj. case, and governed by "of:" RULE 31. _Prepositions
govern the objective case_.
EXERCISES IN PARSING.
Learn to unlearn what you have learned amiss.
What I forfeit for myself is a trifle; that my indiscretions should
reach my posterity, wounds me to the heart.
Lady Jane Gray fell a sacrifice to the wild ambition of the duke of
Northumberland.
King Missipsi charged his sons to consider the senate and people of Rome
as proprietors of the kingdom of Numidia.
Hazael smote the children of Israel in all their coasts; and from what
is left on record of his actions, he plainly appears to have proved,
what the prophet foresaw him to be, a man of violence, cruelty, and
blood.
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