23.In some instances, the words in, on, of, for, to, with, and others commonly reckoned prepositions, are used after infinitives or participles, in a sort of adverbial construction, because they do not govern any objective; yet not exactly in the usual sense of adverbs, because they evidently express the relation between the verb or participle and a nominative or objective going before.

The 74th Division reached its objective without violent opposition, and its line ran from north of Nebi Samwil to the height of Beit Hannina and out towards Tel el Ful.

How successful have civilized peoples been in achieving their objectives?

Our left, or attacking sector, had gained all their objectives against strong opposition in a most difficult country, and had drawn against them the very troops held in reserve for the main attack on Jerusalem.

O'CONNELL, KATHERINS L. SEE Graded objectives for teaching good American speech.

With infinite toil, you manoeuvred him into a position where all he had to do was charge ahead, and he didn't charge ahead, but went off sideways, missing the objective completely.

The dismounted yeomanry of the 231st and 230th Infantry Brigades rushed through, and by half-past one the 74th Division had secured their objectives.

He carries his objective.

29.It is certain that the noun or pronoun which "limits the meaning of a participle," cannot always be "put in the genitive" or possessive case; for the sense intended sometimes positively forbids such a construction, and requires the objective: as, "A syllable consists of one or more letters forming one sound.

No sense of satisfaction in having attained a difficult objective cheered us up.

The certitude of faith, moreover, is only different from, not less than, the certainty of knowledge, in so far as it brings with it not an objective, but a subjective, although universally valid, necessity.

Spenser's belief that the subjective has power to fashion the objective is expressed in two of the finest lines that he ever wrote: "For of the soule the bodie forme doth take; For soule is forme, and doth the bodie make.

Reckless of the current usage of grammarians, and even of self-consistency, both author and reviser will have no objective case of nouns, because this is like the nominative; yet, finding an objective set after "the adjective like," they will recognize it as "a dative still existing in English!"See p. 156.

The publication of news concerning troop movements was suppressed, in order to veil our objective and to keep secret our strength on the various frontiers.

Fire is then directed at this objective without further command until the platoon commander gives a new objective.

In his main text, he adopts no objective, but says: "According to the sense or relation in which nouns are used, they are in the NOMINATIVE or [the] POSSESSIVE CASE, thus, nom.

Noncommissioned officers must be sure that they see and understand the objective, and that all the men in their squads do likewise.

The analogy of the Latin would seem to indicate the objective.

But we sometimes leave to the verb the objective of the person, and sometimes that of the thing; and after the two verbs ask and teach, we sometimes seem to leave both: as, "When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down, and ask of thee forgiveness.

From Dreigrachten southward the French surged across the River Steenbeke, capturing all objectives, while at the same time the British occupied considerable territory in the region of St. Julien and Langemarck, captured the latter town, and carried the fighting beyond Langemarck.

Now, as to the plural of each other, although we do not use the objective, and say of many, "They love each others," there appear to be some instances in which the possessive plural, each others', would not be improper; as, "Sixteen ministers, who meet weekly at each other's houses.

This is a rule by which one may parse the few objectives which are governed by participles; but, for the usual construction of participles themselves, it is no rule at all; neither does the grammar, full as it is, contain any.

First he picked out his objective, a house some distance away, near the road, and then he brought his mustang up on the bit with a touch of the spurs.

It will possibly make many holidays, week-ends, or isolated days more enjoyable by placing a defined objective before the rambler.

The agreeablebecause of the non-calculable differences in our sensuous inclinations, which are in part conditioned by bodily statespossesses no universality whatever, the good possesses an objective, and the beautiful a subjective universality.