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4. When people would see her, they’d say that not even Venus herself could compete with Psyche’s beauty.
5. He was the winged god who flew at night, armed with bows and arrows, inflicting the pain of love upon unsuspecting mortals.
6. They traveled together to the faraway kingdom where Psyche lived to observe her.
7. Her two sisters, though definitely less seductive, had held two lavish weddings, each with a king.
8. Her husband will be the winged serpent whom even the gods fear and who makes the bodiless travelers on the Styx shrink in terror.
9. While she was shaking and crying in the quiet night, a slight breeze reached her.
10. She remained suspicious at the threshold, where she heard a noise but could not see anyone.
Grammar. The following sentences have the noun clause underlined. Identify it if it is used as a subject, predicate nominative, direct object, indirect object, or object of a preposition.
1. She was certain that he was not a monster but the loving husband she had always been wishing for.
2. That night, she asked her mysterious husband to grant her a favor.
3. When, they were saying goodbye, the two evil women told Psyche that her husband must be the awful snake that the Oracle of Delphi had prophesied.
4. That is why he doesn’t allow you to see him.
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