LESSON XVIII.—­NOUNS, OR CASES.

92.  In what kinds of examples do we meet with a doubtful case after a participle? 93.  Is the case after the verb reckoned doubtful, when the subject going before is a sentence, or something not declinable by cases? 94.  In the sentence, “It is certainly as easy to be a scholar, as a gamester,” what is the case of scholar and gamester, and why? 95.  Are there any verbs that sometimes connect like cases, and sometimes govern the objective? 96.  What faults are there in the rules given by Lowth, Murray, Smith, and others, for the construction of like cases? 97.  Can a preposition ever govern any thing else than a noun or a pronoun? 98.  Is every thing that a preposition governs, necessarily supposed to have cases, and to be in the objective? 99.  Why or wherein is the common rule, “Prepositions govern the objective case,” defective or insufficient? 100.  In such phrases as in vain, at first, in particular, how is the adjective to be parsed? 101.  In such expressions as, “I give it up for lost,”—­“I take it for granted,” how is the participle to be parsed? 102.  In such phrases as, at once, from thence, till now, how is the latter word to be parsed? 103.  What peculiarity is there in the construction of nouns of time, measure, distance, or value? 104.  What is observed of the words like, near, and nigh? 105.  What is observed of the word worth? 106.  According to Johnson and Tooke, what is worth, in such phrases as, “Wo worth the day?” 107.  After verbs of giving, paying, and the like, what ellipsis is apt to occur? 108.  What is observed of the nouns used in dates? 109.  What defect is observable in the common rules for “the case absolute,” or “the nominative independent?” 110.  In how many ways is the nominative case put absolute? 111.  What participle is often understood after nouns put absolute? 112.  In how many ways can nouns of the second person be employed? 113.  What is said of nouns used in exclamations, or in mottoes and abbreviated sayings? 114.  What is observed of such phrases as, “hand to hand,”—­“face to face?” 115.  What authors deny the existence of “the case absolute?”

LESSON XIX.—­ADJECTIVES.

1.  Does the adjective frequently relate to what is not uttered with it? 2.  What is observed of those rules which suppose every adjective to relate to some noun? 3.  To what does the adjective usually relate, when it stands alone after a finite verb? 4.  Where is the noun or pronoun, when an adjective follows an infinitive or a participle? 5.  What is observed of adjectives preceded by the and used elliptically? 6.  What is said of the position of the adjective? 7.  In what instances is the adjective placed after its noun? 8.  In what instances