list.

NOTE.-Compounds that follow the form of their simple verbs, are omitted in this

QUESTIONS FOR EXAMINATION.

What are verbal combinations commonly called? How are they formed? What do they express? Give the principal forms of combination, with their meanings. Repeat in alphabetical order the irregular verbs with their participles.

NOTE. As the irregular verbs are too numerous to repeat at one lesson, the pupil may be directed to say a certain number of them daily, until all are known.

(20) Sware' is getting out of use.

ADVERBS.

Certain adverbs are inflected or changed like adjectives, to express degrees of comparison.

Most adverbs, however, are compared not by inflection, but by prefixing more and most, less and least, especially those ending in ly; as

wisely

timidly

more wisely

less timidly

most wisely
least timidly

NOTE. Prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections have no inflection.

QUESTIONS FOR EXAMINATION.

For what purpose are certain adverbs inflected? Name some adverbs that are regularly compared. Name some that are irregularly compared. How are most adverbs compared? Give examples.

ETYMOLOGICAL PARSING.

Etymological parsing simply consists in stating what part of speech each word is, with its inflections and variations, without any reference to the rules of syntax.

EXAMPLES PARSED.

1. 'My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.'

. a pronominal adjective, not compared.

a common noun, masculine gender, second person, singular number, and nominative case.

. a copulative conjunction.

a common noun, common gender, third person, plural number, and nominative case.

. a regular transitive verb, conditional mood, present tense, third

person, and plural number.

a personal pronoun, second person, singular number, and objective case.

. a regular intransitive verb, imperative mood, present tense, second person, and singular number.

. an adverb of negation.

. a personal pronoun, second person, singular number, and nominative case.

2. O that I could prevail on Christians to melt down, under the warm influence of brotherly love, all the distinctions of sects, in the glorious name of Christians!"

. an interjection, indicating earnestness.

That.
I

a copulative conjunction.

a personal pronoun, indefinite gender, first person, singular number, and nominative case.

. an irregular intransitive verb, conditional mood, past tense, first person, and singular number.

. a regular intransitive verb, in the infinitive mood.

. a preposition.

. a common noun, common gender, third person, plural number, and objective case.

. a preposition; sign of the infinitive mood.

a regular transitive verb, in the infinitive mood.

. an adjective, in the positive degree; compared, warm, warmer,

warmest.

a common noun, neuter gender, third person, singular number, and objective case.

. a preposition.

Distinctions

. an adjective, formed from the noun 'brother.'

a common noun, neuter gender, third person, singular number, and objective case.

. a pronominal adjective, not compared.

the definite article.

. a common noun, neuter gender, third person, plural number, and objective case.

. a preposition.

. a common noun, of the third person, plural number, and objec

. an adjective, compared by means of adverbs.

. a common noun, neuter gender, third person, singular number,

. a common noun, common gender, third person, plural number, and objective case.

NOTE. For examples of the higher order of parsing, see Companion to English Grammar.'

EXERCISES ON INFLECTION.

EXERCISE 1.

Write in columns ten nouns of the masculine gender, ten nouns that are feminine, ten that are indefinite, and ten that are of the neuter gender.

EXERCISE 2.

Write each of the following nouns in that column of the

annexed diagram, to which it properly belongs. Opposite each masculine write the corresponding feminine, and opposite each feminine the corresponding masculine: —

Prophet, bride, chalk, sparrow, hen, cousin, sister, king, chair, lady, house, person, brass, servant, ewe, earl, witch, horse, shepherd, goat, duchess, heat, czar, soul, rabbit, jew, widow, hero, child, night, thief, fortune, aunt, grave, buck, neighbour.

MASCULINE

FEMININE

INDEFINITE

NEUTER

EXERCISE 3.

Write the plural of the following nouns :

Woman, watch, echo, fox, life, negro, leaf, berry, thief, hoof, fly, child, ox, beau, goose, axe, church, monarch, cargo, calf, valley, gulf, tooth, Henry, cherub, day, Jenkins, oasis, radix, focus, chimney, erratum, mouse, son-in-law, footstool, foot, mastiff, chorus, man-of-war, peeress.

EXERCISE 4.

Arrange the following nouns under their proper heads in the annexed diagram:

Flowers, Paris, modesty, monkey, scissors, Europe, depth, forest, teeth, cloth, Pharaoh, ox, pence, mastiff, whiteness, James, purity, Germany, erratum, Howard, mice, child, index, pride, width, Jacob, frailty, Jane, timidity, mechanic, men, oceans, colours, hardness.

PROPER

SINGULAR

COMMON

ABSTRACT

PLURAL

EXERCISE 5.

Write the possessive case, both singular and plural, of the following nouns :

Baby, attorney, child, hero, wretch, table, boy, calf, city, wife, wolf, tyrant, woman, soldier, goose, lion, scholar, judge, citizen, grandmother, writer, body, life, beau, brother, leaf, folly, porch, tutor, father, host, assembly, mother, book, Moses, clergyman, eagle.

EXERCISE 6.

Place the apostrophe where it is required in the following sentences:

She heard of her childrens grief. He did it for righteousness sake. The firesides peace we well may prize. The little urchins coat was set on fire by a log. There winds make moan over warriors graves. I shall do it for conscience sake. Queen Victorias soldiers and sailors are brave. Am I my brothers keeper? He bought it at the booksellers shop. They sit in Moses seat. Wellingtons victories are not easily forgotten. The kings and the queens jewels were disposed of.

EXERCISE 7.

Tell the case of each noun in the following passages:

'But the sea-fowl has gone to her nest;
The beast is laid down in his lair.'- Cowper.

'Till critics blame and judges praise,
The poet cannot claim his bays.'- Swift.

'Midnight was come, and every vital thing

With sweet sound sleep their weary limbs did rest:

The beasts were still, the little birds that sing

Now sweetly slept beside their mother's breast.'
Sackville.

EXERCISE 8.

Write the comparative and superlative of the following adjectives:

Merry, little, red, weak, strict, mighty, abundant, brown, broad, lovely, tame, pale, solemn, fine, serious, covetous, near, delightful, spacious, gay, pretty, much, far, old, bad, happy, wise, hot, gentle, low, jolly, thin, splendid, lovely, grave, many, mad, young, amiable, high, holy, easy.