The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1909-04-20
TEACHERS ASSOCIATION.
DR.. Settler Discusses English Gram
mar Helpful Talk by President
j. 81. Harms.

house on Saturday, April II.
AS announced at a previous meet
ing, Dr.. E. B. Settler continued his
discussion of case. He recommended
outlining the functions of each case,
and including these functions in the
definitions of the cases, especially
when teaching advanced classes. He
also urged teachers to require pupils
when parsing to give reason for case.
Dr. Settler prefers a dative case for
reasons stated at the March meeting,
but since few Of the text books in
general use deal with case, he thought
it might be more practicable to in
clude all functions under the nomina-
tive, possessive and objective cases.
Buehler's being a representative
grammar, he used the outlines of the
uss Of cases, approving some, sug-
gesting amendments and additions
to others, giving reason for each sug-
gested change.
Buenler's outline of the uses of the
nominative case is as follows:
l. Subject Of verb.
9. Attribute. complement.
3. A vocative.
4. An exclamation.
). Nominative absolute.
Dr.. Settler suggested a slight
change in (D to "subject Of finite
verb.'' He showed (2} to be faulty
By using the following sentence as
illustration: They believed Washing
ton to be president. The noun presi-
dent, although an attribute compile
ment, is objective. He preferred say
ing. lease Of a noun or pronoun IN
opposition with another nominative. y
After showing by illustration that
nouns or pronouns used in exclamation
are not always nominative, he ad-
vised striking out (4). Instead Of
(5) he suggested saying ~"subject Of
absolute clause' thus avoiding the
confusion that such a sentence as this
might cause: Caesar having crossed
the Rubicon, his army, etc. Rubieon
although in the absolute clause is not
nominative, but objective.
Next came the discussion Of the
possessive case. DR.. Settler noted
the tendency of the hypercritical to
limit the possessive case to nouns or
pronouns denoting living beings, but
said best usage gives greater latitude.
He gave the following as definition
Of the possessive case: "The possess
i've case is the case of a noun or pro-
noun which modifes another noun or
pronoun that means a different per-
son or thing, and of a word in appo-
sition with another possessive.'
Buehler gives the following uses of
the objective case:
l. A direct object.
2. An objective complement.
3. An indirect object.
4. Object Of proposition.
5. Adverbial modifer.
6. Subject of ilfnitive.
In az the meaning of the word
object might be misleading, so DR..
Settler advised saying, "governed by
a proposition. To the above SIX
uses he would add lease Of noun
or pronoun to which the adjectives
like or near refer; as in the SEN
tence: The book nearest him is red.
cease of noun or pronoun IN appo-
sition with an objeetive' was added
as an eighth use Of the case. DIR.
Settler then recalled his proof that an
attribute complement may be OBJ
jective, saying, however, that he
would not mention this to the pupil,
but include that use under the above,
(eighth) head. He showed. a rare
US of the objective in Woe is me! and
O wretched me! He sal this was
properly a dative function.
This ended DR.. Settlers instruct
i've series Of lectures on subjects IN
English. Mr.. Wheeler, in behalf OF
the association, thanked him.
DR.. Harms, Of Newberry college,
gave the audience one of his charac-
teristic pleasing, helpful talks. He
first spoke Of the inspiration and OF
the deepened impression of the great
ness of the educational cause that ne
had gotten from the Eleventh Educa-
tional Conference, which met IN At
lanta last week. The idea he gave OF
the purpose of. education was unique
and uniquely expressed. He said the
one purpose Of education was to give
the nuDil A triple vision. The first