Republic of the Philippines

Cebu Normal University

Osmeña, Blvd., Cebu City,
6000, Philippines

MEDELLIN CAMPUS
Poblacion, Medellin, Cebu
Tel. No.: 436-2029

Cases of Nouns Worksheet

Standard for Success: I can correctly classify nouns according to how they are used in sentences.

A. Read on the following excerpt from the story "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner. Then fill out the table on the next
page with subjective, objective— (Direct object, Object of the preposition, object of the gerund or Infinitive), and
possessive nouns used in the excerpt. Sentences, independent clauses or dependent clauses must be written and
identify its function.

A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner, excerpt.

When Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a
fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house, which no one save an old
man-servant a combined gardener and cook-had seen in at least ten years.

It was a big, squarish frame house that had once been white, decorated with cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in
the heavily lightsome style of the seventies, set on what had once been our most select street. But garages and cotton
gins had encroached and obliterated even the august names of that neighborhood;

only Miss Emily's house was left, lifting its stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton wagons and the gasoline
pumps-an eyesore among eyesores. And now Miss Emily had gone to join the representatives of those august names
where they lay in the cedar-bemused cemetery among the ranked and anonymous graves of Union and Confederate
soldiers who fell at the battle of Jefferson.

Alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town, dating from that
day in 1894 when Colonel Sartoris, the mayor-he who fathered the edict that no Negro woman should appear on the
streets without an apron-remitted her taxes, the dispensation dating from the death of her father on into perpetuity. Not
that Miss Emily would have accepted charity. Colonel Sartoris invented an involved tale to the effect that Miss Emily's
father had loaned money to the town, which the town, as a matter of business, preferred this way of repaying. Only a
man of Colonel Sartoris' generation and thought could have invented it, and only a woman could have believed it.
 Source: http://www.eng.fju.edu.tw/English Literature/Rose/el-text-E-Rose.htm (last accessed on 10 July 2013)
Nominative/Subjective Nouns Objective Nouns Possessive Nouns

*When Miss Emily Grierson died, *our whole town went to her funeral: *only Miss Emily's house was left,
-Miss Emily Grierson -Funeral -Miss Emily's
-Subject of the sentence -Direct Object of the Verb -Direct Object
-Dependent Clause -Independent Clause -Independent Clause

*the women mostly out of curiosity to see the *the men through a sort of respectful affection for *Colonel Sartoris invented an involved tale to the
inside of her house, a fallen monument effect that Miss Emily's
-Women -fallen monument father had loaned money to the town,
- Subject of the sentence -object complement -Miss Emily's
-Independent Clause -Subject of the Sentence
*which no one save an old man-servant- -Independent Clause
*But garages and cotton gins a combined gardener and cook-had seen in at least
had encroached and obliterated even the august ten years *Only a man
names of that neighborhood; -old man-servant of Colonel Sartoris' generation and thought could
-garages and cotton gins -Appositive noun have invented it,
- Subject of the sentence -Dependent Clause -Colonel Sartoris'
-Dependent Clause -Subject of the Sentence
*It was a big, squarish frame house that had once -Independent Clause
*And now Miss Emily had gone to join the been white,
representatives of those august names -house
-Miss Emily -Subject Complement
- Subject of the sentence -Independent Clause
-Dependent Clause
*decorated with cupolas and spires and scrolled
*the gasoline balconies in
pumps-an eyesore among eyesores. the heavily lightsome style of the seventies
-Gasoline -seventies
- Subject of the sentence -Subject Complement
-Sentence -dependent Clause

*set on what had once been our most select street.

-street
*Colonel Sartoris invented an involved tale -Indirect Object
-Colonel Sartoris -Dependent Clause
-Subject of the Sentence
-Dependent Clause *lifting its stubborn and coquettish decay above the
cotton wagons
*When Colonel Sartoris, the mayor-he who -cotton wagons
fathered the edict that no Negro woman should -Object of the preposition
appear on the
streets without an apron-remitted her taxes, *where
- Colonel Sartoris they lay in the cedar-bemused cemetery among the
-Noun of Direct Adress ranked and anonymous graves of Union and
-Independent Clause Confederate soldiers who
fell at the battle of Jefferson.
*Only a woman could have believed it. -Solder
-woman -Direct Object
- Subject of the sentence -Dependent Clause
-Sentence
*Alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and
a care;
-tradition
 -Indirect Object
-Independent Clause

*a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town

-the town
-Object of the preposition
-Dependent Clause

*dating from that

day in 1894
-1894
-Object of the preposition
-Dependent Clause

*the dispensation dating from the death of her

father on into perpetuity.
- Perpetuity
-Object of the preposition
-Dependent Clause

*Not that Miss Emily would have accepted charity.

-Miss Emily
-Indirect Object
-Sentence

*Colonel Sartoris invented an involved tale to the

effect that Miss Emily's
father had loaned money to the town,
-involved tale
-Indirect Object
-Independent Clause

B. Write a 10-sentence paragraph enumerating your strengths and weaknesses in oral and written communication.
Use subjective, objective, and possessive nouns correctly in your sentences. Afterward, box the nouns in the
subjective case, underline the nouns in the objective case, and circle the nouns in the possessive case.