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SYNT A X-POSSESSIVE. 181
rode into a carriage with four hOl',ics.-The boy fell under It
deep pit.-Such conduct cannot be reconciled to .I'our PI',)!,"'·
~ioll.-G 0, and be reconciled with thy brother.-.\ man had
four sons, and he divided hi" property between them.-I :\In
now engaged with that work.-lIe in~i,h Oll it tklt he is righl.
TnI: PI )~::;E::;SIYE CU\'El~XED BY :-;eDS'rc~XTl \'ES.
839 RULE XIII.-A substantive that l:mits the signi­
./ication oj another, must be pul in (he jJ.·ls,~;('s8iu·? case;
((S, " Virtuc's reward "-" John's books."
840. Th,' suhstantive in the Po'sQ8sive Cl'e limit, the signi:ictli"" "f
11H' other, bv l'ppresenting the thing n:lIn"l !I" l'T,)"ud;II:1 from,l'0'.iv'" rn'y be noy nOlln in any
0:l'I·. or a verbal Ii·.un (4G~), either al.,",~ (·1' with it;; rc'.~ilr",n. or mndifyin.~
word.'!; a.'l, "On (lagle's /"i1lflS.,"_u lIe wa.., 0pp0scd 10 .fohn's ?f'ri/ing,"
-" I nm in favor of a pupil's cnmpns;".7 (("'J"cn!1!1" (S0';}.-" JilL,,',
hll1lill[J dO)·,/Nl himself too milch to sl;,d!! was the C \lI"8 of his si,·1",(·,,,.·'
( 463).
842. Thc noun limited hy the possc'oive i., uften under.,t"",l; as, I, Thi3
IJI)"k is John's [book]." It is always omitt",l aft"r the posse,si,'c ('[\s.~ uf
the personal pronouns; :-U~, "Thi3 Lf)ok i ... 1llillc, thine, ours:' &l~.~ :1nd, in
this con,tructioo, when supplied, the 1'0''''"-i,,, case must b" chan~cJ fur
the poesessive pronoun (241); a.," This is "'!I bOllk, 1/'.'1 buok, vur b,,"k;"
not mine bouk, ,\:c., (292).
843. TI,,, p"",,,,,ive cn.'e, nnd the pl'eposilion of \"ith the ol)jcetiv0, arc
often e'lui\~:dc'nt; as, "j!y father'S house "-" The h"'lS~ of "'!I fathe·r."
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844. Somclimcs the ide:. (·xpresscd by of with the ol'i,>ctive, can not
be expl'cesC'l at all by the possc3sive; a3, .. A rill;; or' !/"Id,-q A cnp of
1M/er "-" A piece of land "-" The house of Cr'f"[!"," &c. Sometil1le~,
1l~;lil1, 1hc ideas ~~xpr('ssed arc diffel'ent; thu:'), "The ·Lr)n{'6 day" nlcallS
tile sabbath. ,. Tlw dRy of 'he Lo)Yl," means til,c day "f .i,,·lgment. "~ly
father'S pietul'e," means a picture belonging t" my fatll!'r. .. A picture
of 'fIIy father," means a portl'ait of bim. .. Uo.!', luv~." meal!' only the
Inve ",hieh God feels. "The l"l'e of Gnd," means either tile love which
G.)d feels to us, or tllat which we feel to him.
845. Of, before a pos