He is riding on his horse.
She is riding on her horse.

They are driving in their carriage.

Rule LVI.-The Pronominal Adjective immediately precedes its Noun: the Possessive Pronoun ordinarily follows the Copulative Verb:

This is my horse.

This horse is mine.

He lives in his house (Pronominal Adjective).

The house that he lives in is his (Possessive Pronoun). Rule LVII.-Adjectives of Quality and Quantity immediately precede the Noun that they qualify, or follow the Copulative Verb:

That is a powerful horse.
That horse is powerful.
There were many men.

The boys were five in number.

Obs. When the Adjective precedes the Noun it is termed Attributive; when it follows the Copulative Verb it is termed Predicative.

Rule LVIII.-When more attributive Adjectives than one agree with a Noun, the Adjectives may follow the Noun:

His horse, strong, swift, and unwearied.

A man, brave, gentle, and forbearing.

Rule LIX.-When other words depend upon the Adjective it follows the Noun :—

A man remarkable for his skill in medicine.

A road five miles long.

EXERCISES TO ILLUSTRATE RULES ON THE ADJECTIVE,

RULE LV.

Explain the meaning of Pronominal Adjectives, and show how Rule LV. is illustrated in the following:Lay not the flattering unction to your soul,

That not your trespass but my madness speaks.

He never will come again.

His beard was as white as snow

And flaxen was his poll.

She chanted snatches of old tunes,

As one incapable of her own distress;

Till that her garments, heavy with their drink,
Pulled the poor wretch from her melodious lay
To muddy death.

RULE LVI.

Show how this Rule is illustrated by the following:

A lot of woe is thine, fair maid.

The fault was mine, the fault was mine.

Who steals my purse steals trash; 'twas mine,
'Tis his, and may be yours to-morrow.

Ours be loyalty unshaken!

Warwick's daughter shall be thine.

One-half of me is yours, the other half yours,
Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours.

RULE LVII.

Explain the meaning of Attributive and Predicative Adjectives, and show how Rule LVII. is illustrated in the following:

She is fair and virtuous.

I return his sworn and mortal foe.
Thou art fortunate in all thy deeds.
Thus yields the cedar to the axe's edge,

Whose arms gave shelter to the princely eagles,

Under whose shade the ramping lion slept,

Whose top branch overpeered Jove's spreading tree,
And kept low shrubs from winter's powerful wind.

RULES LVIII. AND LIX,

Show how these Rules are illustrated by the following:

This is a man, old, wrinkled, faded, withered.
Therefore the moon, the governess of floods,
Pale in her anger, washes all the air.

A wreath of light blue vapour, pure and rare,
Mounts, scarcely seen against the bluer sky.
Vineyards and bays and cities white and fair.
For Nature, only loud when she destroys,
Is silent when she fashions; she will crowd
The work of her destruction, transient, loud,
Into an hour, and then long peace enjoys.

§ V. THE ARTICLE.

Rule LX.-The Definite Article is placed before Nouns of the Singular and of the Plural Number: the Indefinite Article only before Nouns of the Singular Number:

Rule LXI.-A few Numeral Adjectives, being Singular in form, but Plural in sense, are preceded by the Indefinite Article, and followed by a Plural Noun: A few children were playing.

A hundred sheep were feeding.

Obs. Many may be used with the Indefinite Article and a Singular Noun following it. Ex. Many a man.

Rule LXII.-When an Adjective in the Singular or in the Plural Number is used as a Noun, it is preceded by the Definite Article :

The good.

The beautiful.

The righteous.
The wicked.

Rule LXIII.-If two Nouns refer to the same person or thing, only one of them takes the Article: if they refer to different persons or things, they each take the Article:

The chaplain and librarian arrives.

The chaplain and the librarian arrive. Explanation.-"The chaplain and librarian means one person holding both offices. "The chaplain and the librarian"

means two persons.

Rule LXIV.—If two Adjectives qualifying a Noun take but one Article before them, one person or thing is designated by the Noun: if they take two Articles, two persons or things are designated :

:

The wise and kind physician arrives.

The wise and the kind physician arrive.

Explanation." The wise and kind physician" means one physician who was both wise and kind. "The wise and the kind physician” means one physician who was wise and another who

was kind. The latter form of expression is seldom used, as the Noun is ordinarily repeated when two persons are meant. Ex. The wise physician and the kind physician arrived at the same

time.

Rule LXV.—If one Noun precedes and another follows the Particle than, and if the Indefinite Article be prefixed to the second Noun, the two Nouns refer to different persons: if the second Noun has not the Indefinite Article before it, the two Nouns designate the same person:

He showed himself a cleverer attorney than diplomatist.
He showed himself an abler diplomatist than an attorney.

Explanation. The first example means, "He showed himself a cleverer attorney than [he was] diplomatist. The second means, "He showed himself an abler diplomatist than an attorney [would have been]." The second form of expression is seldom used without the addition of the required Verb.

EXERCISES TO ILLUSTRATE RULES ON THE ARTICLE. RULE LX.

Explain the difference between the Definite and the Indefinite Article, and show how Rule LX. is illustrated in the following :

We still retain

The name and all the additions of a king.

As in a theatre the eyes of men,

After a well-graced actor leaves the stage,

Are idly bent on him that enters next.

Pardon is all the suit I have in hand.

Destruction straight shall dog them at the heels.

RULE LXI. AND OBSERVATION.

Show how this Rule and the Observation upon it are illustrated by the following:

A thousand times good night.

My wayward husband hath a hundred times
Wooed me to steal it. Here you do keep
A hundred knights and squires.

Full many a shaft at venture sent,
Finds goal the archer little meant:
And many a word at random spoken

Has pierced or soothed a heart that's broken.

RULE LXII.

Show how this Rule is illustrated by the following:

The beautiful is vanished, and returns not.
While we the brave, the mighty, and the wise,
We men, who in our noon of life defied
The elements, must vanish. The poorest poor
Long for some moments in a weary life.
Even of the good is no memorial left.

Oh, sir, the good die first.

The vacant and the busy, maids and youths,
All pass him by.

RULES LXIII., LXIV., LXV.

Show how these Rules are illustrated by the following:

She lingered in unquiet widowhood

A wife and widow. A better man than king.
He conducts the duchess and the princess hither.
The chamberlain and war-commissioner, Questenberg,
The brave, the mighty, and the wise, must vanish.
So fare the many and the thoughtful few,

The wealthy, the luxurious, by the stress

Of business roused. The immortal and divine
Yielded to mortal reflux.

Said I, The music and the sprightly scene
Invite us. Like a rude and savage man of Inde.
The earliest summoned and the longest spared.
The hopeful and the hopeless first and last.

§ VI. THE PARTICLES.

Rule LXVI-Adverbs generally precede the Adjectives which they qualify :—

A very wet day.

He is miserably poor.

Rule LXVII.—Adverbs generally follow the Intransitive Verb and the Object of the Transitive Verb: They live happily.

He rules them wisely.