it necessary to send you Epaphroditus, my brother and companion in labor, and fellow soldier, but your messenger, and he that ministered to my wants."-Bible.

14. "The sons of false Antandrus were slain,

He, who for bribes his faithless counsels sold."-Pope,

15. "See the vile king his iron sceptre bear;

His only praise attends the pious heir,

He in whose soul the virtues all conspire."-Dr. Lowth.

SEC. XI.-THE SUBSTANTIVE TERM, (Con.) THE POSSESSIVE. (Adjective El.)

382. When a substantive term of the Word-form is used to limit another substantive, not as an appositive, it is put in the possessive case; as, "Hume's History." "Our friends."

383. When the posssessive term is a complex word-form, the possessive termination is added to the subordinate; as, "John the Baptist's head." The Mayor of London's carriage." "Jeremiah the prophet's Lamentations." "The prophet Jeremiah's Lamentations."

384. If, however, the subordinate of a complex possessive element, is itself complex or compound, the sign of the possessive must be annexed to the possessive base; as, "This Psalm is David's, the prophet, priest and king." "This is Brown's, the jeweller, who has just come to town."

385. When the possessive element is a complex phraseform, the sign may be annexed to either the base, or the subordinate; as, "I called at Smith's, the bookseller;" or, "I called at Smith, the bookseller's."

386. When the possessive element is a compound wordform, and the coördinates are taken together, the sign should be annexed only to the last coördinate; as, "Jane and Lucy's book." "John, George and Henry's father."

387. If, however, the base is compound instead of the possessive, one or more of its coördinates being omitted, (172) the sign should be annexed to each possessive; as, "Brown's and Smith's farm." (=Brown's farm and Smith's farm.) "The king's and people's approbation."

388. The base of a possessive subordinate is sometimes omitted; as, "This is John's (book)." In many cases, however, the possessive is used alone, by an idiom of our language, rather than by ellipsis, as in the case of the forms, mine, thine, ours, yours, theirs, and other possessives when used adjunctively; as, "A book of mine." "This is thine." "A remark

of his."

389. The possessive element has no grammatical agreement in number or otherwise with its base. Hence the latter should always be singular unless the sense demands the plural; as, "For our sake," (not sakes). "Were we in their place," (not places).

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390. The possessive element must, however, agree with its antecedent in gender, number and person; as, They accomplish their work." He did his duty." "She reads her book." 391. A possessive word-form is often equivalent to a phrase-form with the preposition (69); as, My father's house." "The house of my father."

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392. Not so, however, when the subordinate denotes Material and Constituency, Supply, Inclusion, the Suffering or Factitive Object, (see Part II), and some other relations; as, "A building of stone," (not a stone's building). "A pail of water." "A section of a circle." "The destruction of property," &c.

393. The possessive pronouns, however, may be used to express an objective element; as, "The destruction of us," (= Our destruction) (242)." "The defeat of them all," (= Their entire defeat."

EXERCISE 40.-Correct such examples as are faulty in any re

spect, explain why. Analyze and parse each example.

1. The physician's and the surgeon's advice. 2. Two month's notice. 3. Bought Andrews' and Stoddard's Latin Grammar. 4. Purchased Worcester's and Webster's Dictionary. 5. Adam's and Eve's Creator is our Creator. 6. Read about Jacob's and Esau's father. 7. Have heard of Cæsar's and Napoleon's victories. 8. The Bishop of London's excellent book. 9. Edward the Second of England's Queens. 10. Called at Smith the bookseller and stationers. 11. Stopped at Johnson's, a merchant in Broadway. 12. Emulated Cæsar, the greatest general of antiquity's bravery. 13. General Taylor's, President of the United States, an excellent man and brave soldier's residence. Thompson's and Company's office in Broadway. Mason the draper and taylor's on South Street. and Watts survey of the Divine Dispensations. his parents and his guardians will. 18. His fathers and mothers

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15. Called at

16. Edwards 17. His own