1. Twelve of our crew were dead by immoderate labour etc. - that's a complement, so nominative. 2. The Empire of Blefescu (sp?) is an island, etc... -nominative again, what with it being the subject of the sentence and all. 3. I had His Majesty's permission to step over this wall... -genitive. 'tis the permission of His Majesty. treating His Majesty as one proper noun. if not... not sure. 4. Yet I am of the opinion this disposition ariseth chiefly from a peverse, restive disposition -dative. i spy a preposition. 5. They preserve decency and civility in the highest degrees. -thems the objects. accusative. 6. The Maids of Honour often invited G... -nominative 7. And after all, I found their natural smell was much more supportable... -um. nominative. there's an embedded clause beginging at 'their' 8. I stayed but two months with my wife and family. -dative. or instrumental, if it exists for those nouns and if the scribe can be bothered. 9. The sentence of putting out your eyes was entered on the books. - accusative. it's the object, right? 10. I was often tempted to sieze the first forty or fifty that came in my reach, etc. -dative? 11. He often builds his largest men of war in the woods, etc. - yup, dative again. 12. The physicians... had mingled a sleepy potion in the hogsheads of wine. - funnily enough, dative again. 13. As treason appears in the heart, before it appears in overt acts... - guess what? DATIVE. 14. ...I was raised and slung into the engine... - hahah! DATIVE. 15. With a violent pull, which gave me not a little pain... - dative. not that you can tell the difference between dative and accusative anyway. 16. ... her sister... - genitive 17. I came up with her... - that's a dative. or it's a dative if he came up (to such-and-such-a-place) with her, anyway. if the verb is 'to come up with', or to invent, it could be an accusative. 18. ... he told me... -accusative. 19. ... every day for two or three hours... -erm. instrumental? bah, i know the WORD. can't spell it, though, so that doesn't help.
mkay, i need some sleep. will finish this tomorrow :)
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Exercise One
Date: 2008-01-29 02:31 pm (UTC)- that's a complement, so nominative.
2. The Empire of Blefescu (sp?) is an island, etc...
-nominative again, what with it being the subject of the sentence and all.
3. I had His Majesty's permission to step over this wall...
-genitive. 'tis the permission of His Majesty. treating His Majesty as one proper noun. if not... not sure.
4. Yet I am of the opinion this disposition ariseth chiefly from a peverse, restive disposition
-dative. i spy a preposition.
5. They preserve decency and civility in the highest degrees.
-thems the objects. accusative.
6. The Maids of Honour often invited G...
-nominative
7. And after all, I found their natural smell was much more supportable...
-um. nominative. there's an embedded clause beginging at 'their'
8. I stayed but two months with my wife and family.
-dative. or instrumental, if it exists for those nouns and if the scribe can be bothered.
9. The sentence of putting out your eyes was entered on the books.
- accusative. it's the object, right?
10. I was often tempted to sieze the first forty or fifty that came in my reach, etc.
-dative?
11. He often builds his largest men of war in the woods, etc.
- yup, dative again.
12. The physicians... had mingled a sleepy potion in the hogsheads of wine.
- funnily enough, dative again.
13. As treason appears in the heart, before it appears in overt acts...
- guess what? DATIVE.
14. ...I was raised and slung into the engine...
- hahah! DATIVE.
15. With a violent pull, which gave me not a little pain...
- dative. not that you can tell the difference between dative and accusative anyway.
16. ... her sister...
- genitive
17. I came up with her...
- that's a dative. or it's a dative if he came up (to such-and-such-a-place) with her, anyway. if the verb is 'to come up with', or to invent, it could be an accusative.
18. ... he told me...
-accusative.
19. ... every day for two or three hours...
-erm. instrumental? bah, i know the WORD. can't spell it, though, so that doesn't help.
mkay, i need some sleep. will finish this tomorrow :)