(a) Pick out subject, predicate, and (direct) object:—
1. This, and other measures of precaution, I took.
2. The pursuing the inquiry under the light of an end or final cause, gives wonderful animation, a sort of personality to the whole writing.
3. Why does the horizon hold me fast, with my joy and grief, in this center?
4. His books have no melody, no emotion, no humor, no relief to the dead prosaic level.
5. On the voyage to Egypt, he liked, after dinner, to fix on three or four persons to support a proposition, and as many to oppose it.
6. Fashion does not often caress the great, but the children of the great.
7. No rent roll can dignify skulking and dissimulation.
8. They do not wish to be lovely, but to be loved.
(b) Pick out the subject, predicate, and complement: