I. Before working on this exercise, see Parsing Model for Interjections. Parse the nouns, adjectives, pronouns, verbs, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections in the following example sentences.

  1. Oh, now you weep ; and I perceive you feel
    The dint of pity; these are gracious drops.
    Kind souls! What! weep you when you but behold
    Our Caesar’s vesture wounded! Look you here!
    Here is himself, marred as you see, with traitors.
    Shakespeare
  2. Woe worth the chase I woe worth the day! That cost thy life, my gallant grey.
    Scott
  3. Hail! holy light, offspring of heaven first-born,
    Or of the Eternal, coeternal beam!
    Milton
  4. Unfading Hope! when life’s last embers burn,
    When soul to soul, and dust to dust, return,
    Heaven to thy charge resigns the awful hour!
    Oh! then, thy kingdom comes! Immortal Power!
    What though each spark of earth-born rapture fly
    The quivering lip, pale cheek, and closing eye!
    Bright to the soul thy seraph hands convey
    The morning dream of life’s eternal day!—
    Then, then, the triumph and the trance begin,
    And all the phoenix spirit burns within!
    Campbell
  5. Oh, say, what mystic spell is that which so blinds us to the sufferings of our brethren, which deafens our ear to the voice of bleeding humanity, when it is aggravated by the shriek of dying thousands.
    Chalmers
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