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SYNTAX-ADJECTIVES. 149
674. A substantive is sometimes conuected with another in a 601 t of ap·
position by the word as, meaning in the condition or. in the capacity of,
thus, "Cicero, us an orator, was bold-us a ~oldil'J", he was timid." But
here-the reverse of the former case (6G9)-the wldantive in apposition
with another in the possessive case, or with a possc what!
III what case do tbey agree 1 Give the rule:-
Religion, the support of adversity, adorns prosperity.­
Byron, the poet, the only son of Captain John Byroll, was
bom in 1788.-Coleridge, a remarkable man, and rich imaginative
poet, was the friend of 'Yorc1sworth.-My brother
,Villiam's estate has been sold .
.. And on the palace floor, a lifeless corsc she lay."
EXERCISEr:; TO BE CORRECTED.
As the nominative and the objective cnee in nOllns arc aliko in EIl::;-lisl"
there is no liability to error under tbis rule, except in the case of prononns.
Please give that book to my brother William, he who standt!
by the window.-The gentleman has arrived, him whom I mentioned
before.-Do you speak so to me, I who have so often
befriended you ?-I speak of Yirgil, he who wrote the .lEneid.
AN ADJECTIYE WITH ~\. SUBSTANTIYE.
676. RULE II.-1. An adjcctiee or ji(/rticiplc qualifies
the subsialltiec to which it belongs (196); as, ,,~\ good
man.
2. Adjectives denoting ONE, qualify nouns in the sin-