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Graded Lessons in English an Elementary English Grammar Consisting of One Hundred Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class-Room by Alonzo Reed;Brainerd Kellogg
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Tell the _person_ and _case_ of each of the following nouns and pronouns.

+_Remember_+ that a noun or pronoun used as an _explanatory modifier_ is in
the same case as the word which it explains, and that a noun or pronoun
used _independently_ is in the _nominative case_.

We Americans do things in a hurry.
You Englishmen take more time to think.
The Germans do their work with the most patience and deliberation.
We boys desire a holiday.
Come on, my men; I will lead you.
I, your teacher, desire your success.
You, my pupils, are attentive.
I called on Tom, the tinker.
Friends, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause.

Write simple sentences in which each of the following nouns shall be used
in the _three persons_ and in the _three cases_.

Andrew Jackson, Alexander, Yankees.

Write a sentence containing a noun in the _nominative_ case, used as an
_attribute;_ one in the _nominative_, used as an _explanatory modifier_;
one in the _nominative_, used independently.

Write a sentence containing a noun in the _objective case_, used to
_complete two predicate verbs_; one used to _complete_ a _participle_; one
used to _complete_ an _infinitive_; one used _with a preposition_ to make a
phrase; one used as an _explanatory modifier_.

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