Mary declares possessive nouns are happy because they have 'no domineering verbs to govern them,' then imagines a verb as a great general commanding a troop of nouns.
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A patient grammar lesson that makes the objective case easy to picture.
Chapter 13 keeps the objective case grounded in action: the noun is the one acted upon, first with a verb and then with certain prepositions. Mary's impatience and her mother's patient corrections give the lesson a human rhythm, while the back-and-forth over verbs and…
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