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364. In Personification.-Names of personified objects begin with capitals.

365. The Pronoun I.-The pronoun I, the interjection O, the words Bible, Scripture, and the names of the books and parts of the Bible are written with capitals.

EXERCISE

366. Give reasons for the use of capitals in the following sentences:

1. St. Patrick's day is the 17th of March.

2. The Amazon River is the longest in South America.
3. He was made a prisoner during the Spanish War.
4. The title of the book is, "The Conquest of Mexico."
5. We have just taken up the study of Tennyson.

6. The question is, What can we do about it?
7. The Swiss are a liberty-loving people.

8. He lives on North Main Street.

9. She is very much interested in the study of French. 10. Our father's God, to Thee,

Author of liberty,

To Thee we sing.

II. Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her retched crust.

12. You know we French stormed Ratisbon.

13. His family have always been Presbyterians.

14. O Mother! Did you say I could go to the picnic?

15. Now glory to the Lord of Hosts, from whom all glories

are!

And glory to our Sovereign Liege, King Henry of
Navarre!

As verb modifiers, 47.
As modifier of adjective
complements, 74.
As conjunctions, 84.
Function of, 175.
Classified, 175-176.
Comparison of, 177.
And adjectives, 177.
Equivalents, 178.
Parsing of, 182.
Agreement.

Of pronoun and antecedent,
125.

Of subject and verb, 154.
Antecedent.

And pronoun, 125.

Of a phrase or clause, 128.
Of relatives, 132.
Appositives.

As modifier of subject, 27.
Punctuation of, 27.

Defined, 118.
With or, 118-119.

Apposition.
Nouns in, 118.

In possessive case, 118.
With or, 118.

"As" as relative pronoun, 133.

"But" as relative pronoun,

133.

Capitals, 209-210.

Case.

Of nouns, 115.
Nominative, 115.
Possessive, 115.
Objective, 115.
Double possessive, 116.
Group possessive, 116.
Possessive with participles,

Comma, 198-205.

Comparison.

Of adjectives, 144-146.
Of adverbs, 177.

Complement, the.
Function of, 60.

Subjective complement, 60.
Object complement, 62.
Objective complement, 63.
Noun as complement, 65.
Pronoun as complement, 65.
Phrase as complement, 66.
Infinitive as complement,
68.
Participle as complement,
68.

Clause as complement, 70.
Modifiers of, 72-79.

Compound.

Subject, 8.

Predicate, 39.

Sentence, 99-101.

Nouns, 112-113.

Relative pronouns, 133.
Prepositions, 184.

Subordinating, 190.

Coördinate clauses, 99, 188.

Copulative verbs, 152.

Dash, 208.

Demonstrative pronouns, 136.

Equivalents.
Of nouns, 120.
Of adjectives, 147.
Of adverbs, 178.

Expletives.
There, 13.
It, 13, 129.

Feminine suffixes, 109.

Gender.

Of nouns, 108.

Ways of denoting, 108.
Feminine suffixes, 109.
Of pronoun and antecedent,

125.

Ideas worth while, 3.
Imperative mode, 168.
Impersonal pronoun, 168.
Indefinite pronouns, 137.

Independent elements.
Nature of, 80.

Nouns and pronouns of ad-
dress, 80.

Interjections, 82.

Conjunctive adverbs, 84.

Parenthetical expressions,

86.

Nominative absolute, 88.
Punctuation of, 81, 85, 87,

89.

Of infinitive complements,

76.

Of phrase complements, 77.
Of clause complements, 77.
Modifiers of the subject.
Function of, 18.
Adjective modifier, 18.
Phrase modifier, 21.
Clause modifier, 23.

Appositive modifier, 27.
Possessive modifier, 28.
Participial modifier, 29.

Position of modifier, 32.

Modifiers of verb.

Function of, 46.
Adverbs as, 47.

Prepositional phrase as, 50.
Infinitive as, 52.

Nouns, the.

As simple subject, 2, 14.
As appositive modifier, 27.
Modifiers of, 18-34.
As subjective complement,
60.

As object complement, 62.
Asobjective complement,63.
Of address, 80.

In nominative absolute, 88.
Function of, 105.
Kinds of, 105.
Common, 106.
Abstract, 106.
Collective, 106.
Gender, 108.

Feminine suffixes, 109.
Personification of, 109.
Number of, III.

Formation of plurals, 111.

Plurals of compound, 112.
Plurals of foreign, 113.
Plurals of letters, figures,
etc., 114.
Case of, 115.
Possessive case with parti-
ciples, 117.

Nouns in apposition, 118.
Person of nouns, 119.
Noun equivalents, 120.
Parsing of, 122.

Number.

Of collective nouns, 106.
Of nouns, III.
Formation of plural, 111.
Plurals of compound nouns,

II2.

Foreign plurals, 113.
Of verbs, 154.

Parsing.

Of nouns, 122.
Of pronouns, 129.
Of adjectives, 149.
Of verbs, 174.
Of verbals, 174.
Of adverbs, 182.
Of prepositions, 186.

Participles.

As subjects, 14-15.
As modifiers, 29, 72.
Participial phrase, 29.
As complements, 68.

In nominative absolute, 88.
With possessive, 117.
As nouns, 120-121.
As adjectives, 147–149.
As principal parts of verb,
156.

Present participle, 156-157.
As prepositions, 184.

In progressive tense forms,
162.

Past participle, 156-159.
In passive voice, 169–170.
Verbals, 170.

Uses of participles, 172-173.
Parsing, 174.

Period, 196.

Plural, the.

Formation of, III.
Of compounds, 112.
Of foreign words, 113.
Of letters, figures, etc., 114.
Possessive case.
As modifier, 28.
Of nouns, 115.

Double possessive, 116.
Group possessive, 116.
With participles, 117.
Of pronouns, 129.
Position.

Of subject, II.

Of subject modifiers, 32.
Of verb modifiers, 57.

Predicate, the.
Function of, 35.
Simple predicate, 36.
Verb phrase, 37.

Complete predicate, 38-39.
Compound predicate, 39.
Transforming, 41.

Verbs of complete predica-

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