[Sidenote: _Objects, nouns and the following_.]
308. Besides nouns, prepositions may have as objects--
(1) _Pronouns_: "Upon _them_ with the lance;" "With _whom_ I traverse
earth."
(2) _Adjectives_: "On _high_ the winds lift up their voices."
(3) _Adverbs_: "If I live wholly from _within_;" "Had it not been for
the sea from _aft_."
(4) _Phrases_: "Everything came to her from _on high_;" "From _of old_
they had been zealous worshipers."
(5) _Infinitives_: "The queen now scarce spoke to him save _to convey_
some necessary command for her service."
(6) _Gerunds_: "They shrink from _inflicting_ what they threaten;" "He
is not content with _shining_ on great occasions."
(7) _Clauses_:
"Each soldier eye shall brightly turn
To _where thy sky-born glories burn_."
[Sidenote: _Object usually objective case, if noun or pronoun_.]
309. The object of a preposition, if a noun or pronoun, is usually
in the objective case. In pronouns, this is shown by the form of the
word, as in Sec. 308 (1).
[Sidenote: _Often possessive_.]
In the double-possessive idiom, however, the object is in the
possessive case after _of_; for example,--
There was also a book _of Defoe's_,... and another _of_
_Mather's_.--FRANKLIN.
See also numerous examples in Secs. 68 and 87.
[Sidenote: _Sometimes nominative_.]
And the prepositions _but_ and _save_ are found with the nominative
form of the pronoun following; as,--
Nobody knows _but_ my mate and _I_
Where our nest and our nestlings lie.
--BRYANT.
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