(6) Adverbial objective. These answer the question when, or how long, how far, etc., and are consequently equivalent to adverbs in modifying a predicate:  “We were now running thirteen miles an hour;” “One way lies hope;” “Four hours before midnight we approached a mighty minster.”

Exercises.

(a) Pick out subject, predicate, and (direct) object:—­

1.  This, and other measures of precaution, I took.

2.  The pursuing the inquiry under the light of an end or final cause, gives wonderful animation, a sort of personality to the whole writing.

3.  Why does the horizon hold me fast, with my joy and grief, in this center?

4.  His books have no melody, no emotion, no humor, no relief to the dead prosaic level.

5.  On the voyage to Egypt, he liked, after dinner, to fix on three or four persons to support a proposition, and as many to oppose it.

6.  Fashion does not often caress the great, but the children of the great.

7.  No rent roll can dignify skulking and dissimulation.

8.  They do not wish to be lovely, but to be loved.

(b) Pick out the subject, predicate, and complement: 

1.  Evil, according to old philosophers, is good in the making.

2.  But anger drives a man to say anything.

3.  The teachings of the High Spirit are abstemious, and, in regard to particulars, negative.

4.  Spanish diet and youth leave the digestion undisordered and the slumbers light.

5.  Yet they made themselves sycophantic servants of the King of Spain.

6.  A merciless oppressor hast thou been.

7.  To the men of this world, to the animal strength and spirits, the man of ideas appears out of his reason.

8.  I felt myself, for the first time, burthened with the anxieties of a man, and a member of the world.

(c) Pick out the direct and the indirect object in each:—­

1.  Not the less I owe thee justice.

2.  Unhorse me, then, this imperial rider.

3.  She told the first lieutenant part of the truth.

4.  I promised her protection against all ghosts.

5.  I gave him an address to my friend, the attorney.

6.  Paint me, then, a room seventeen feet by twelve.

(d) Pick out the words and phrases in apposition:—­

1.  To suffer and to do, that was thy portion in life.

2.  A river formed the boundary,—­the river Meuse.

3.  In one feature, Lamb resembles Sir Walter Scott; viz., in the dramatic character of his mind and taste.

4.  This view was luminously expounded by Archbishop Whately, the present Archbishop of Dublin.

5.  Yes, at length the warrior lady, the blooming cornet, this nun so martial, this dragoon so lovely, must visit again the home of her childhood.