Nouns As Adjective Modifiers

	Lesson 33 (pp. 57–59)	Nouns represent two kinds of Noun Modifiers — the Possessive and the Explanatory. The Explanatory Modifier is often called an Appositive. It identifies or explains by adding another name of the same thing.
1.	Elizabeth’s favorite, Raleigh, was beheaded by James I.	Analysis.— Elizabeth’s and Raleigh are modifiers of the subject; the first word telling whose favorite is meant, the second what favorite. Elizabeth’s favorite, Raleigh is the modified subject.
Exercises (Lesson 33: nouns as adjective-like modifiers) Diagram the following:
2. The best features of King James’s translation of the Bible are derived from Tyndale’s version. 3. St. Paul, the apostle, was beheaded in the reign of Nero. 4. A fool’s bolt is soon shot. 5. The tadpole, or polliwog, becomes a frog. 6. An idle brain is the devil’s workshop. 7. Mahomet, or Mohammed, was born in the year 569 and died in 632.
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8.	They scaled Mount Blanc — a daring feat.	Explanation.— Feat is explanatory of the sentence, They scaled Mount Blanc, and in the diagram it stands, enclosed in curves, on a short line placed after the sentence line.
9. Bees communicate to each other the death of the queen, by a rapid interlacing of the antennæ.
10.	The lamp of a man’s life has three wicks — brain, blood, and breath.	Explanation.— Several words may together be explanatory of one.
11.	The turtle’s back-bone and breast-bone — its shell and coat of armor — are on the outside of its body.
12.	Cromwell’s rule as Protector began in the year 1653 and ended in 1658.	Explanation.— As, namely, to wit, viz., i.e., e.g., and that is may introduce explanatory modifiers, but they do not seem to connect them to the words modified. In the diagram they stand like as in Lesson 30. Protector is explanatory of Cromwell’s.
13. In the latter half of the eighteenth century, three powerful nations, namely, Russia, Austria, and Prussia, united for the dismemberment of Poland. 14. John, the beloved disciple, lay on his master’s breast. 15. The petals of the daisy, day’s eye, close at night and in rainy weather.
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