of case? 30.  What three modes of construction appear like exceptions to Rule 4th? 31.  In the phrase, “For David my servant’s sake,” which word is governed by sake, and which is to be parsed by the rule of apposition? 32.  In the sentence, “It is man’s to err,” what is supposed to govern man’s? 33.  Does the possessive case admit of any abstract sense or construction? 34.  Why is it reasonable to limit the government of the possessive to nouns only, or to words taken substantive? 35.  Does the possessive case before a real participle denote the possessor of something? 36.  What two great authors differ in regard to the correctness of the phrases, “upon the rule’s being observed,” and “of its being neglected?” 37.  Is either of them right in his argument? 38.  Is the distinction between the participial noun and the participle well preserved by Murray and his amenders? 39.  Who invented the doctrine, that a participle and its adjuncts may be used as “one name” and in that capacity govern the possessive? 40.  Have any popular authors adopted this doctrine? 41.  Is the doctrine well sustained by its adopters, or is it consistent with the analogy of general grammar? 42.  When one doubts whether a participle ought to be the governing word or the adjunct,—­that is, whether he ought to use the possessive case before it or the objective,—­what shall he do? 43, What is objected to the sentences in which participles govern the possessive case, and particularly to the examples given by Priestley, Murray, and others, to prove such a construction right? 44.  Do the teachers of this doctrine agree among themselves? 45.  How does the author of this work generally dispose of such government? 46.  Does he positively determine, that the participle should never be allowed to govern the possessive case?

LESSON XVI.—­NOUNS, OR CASES.

47.  Are the distinctions of voice and of time as much regarded in participial nouns as in participles? 48.  Why cannot an omission of the possessive sign be accounted a true ellipsis? 49.  What is the usual position of the possessive case, and what exceptions are there? 50.  In what other form can the meaning of the possessive case be expressed? 51.  Is the possessive often governed by what is not expressed? 52.  Does every possessive sign imply a separate governing noun? 53.  How do compounds take the sign of possession? 54.  Do we put the sign of possession always and only where the two terms of the possessive relation meet? 55.  Can the possessive sign be ever rightly added to a separate adjective? 56.  What is said of the omission of s from the possessive singular on account of its hissing sound? 57.  What errors do Kirkham, Smith, and others, teach concerning the possessive singular? 58.  Why is Murray’s rule for the possessive case objectionable? 59.  Do compounds embracing the possessive case appear to be written