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Exercises
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(_a_) Pick out the possessive nouns, and tell whether each is

appositional, objective, or subjective.


(_b_) Rewrite the sentence, turning the possessives into equivalent

phrases.


1. I don't choose a hornet's nest about my ears.


2. Shall Rome stand under one man's awe?


3. I must not see thee Osman's bride.


4. At lovers' perjuries,

They say, Jove laughs.


5. The world has all its eyes on Cato's son.


6. My quarrel and the English queen's are one.


7. Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger,

Comes dancing from the East.


8. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds; therefore, let him

seasonably water the one, and destroy the other.


9. 'Tis all men's office to speak patience

To those that wring under the load of sorrow.


10. A jest's prosperity lies in the ear

Of him that hears it, never in the tongue

Of him that makes it.


11. No more the juice of Egypt's grape shall moist his lip.


12. There Shakespeare's self, with every garland crowned,

Flew to those fairy climes his fancy sheen.


13. What supports me? dost thou ask?

The conscience, Friend, to have lost them [his eyes] overplied

In liberty's defence.


14. Or where Campania's plain forsaken lies,

A weary waste expanding to the skies.


15. Nature herself, it seemed, would raise

A minster to her Maker's praise!




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