The Grammar of English Grammars Part 92

LESSON V.--NOUNS.

1. What is a NOUN, and what are the examples given? 2. Into what general cla.s.ses are nouns divided? 3. What is a proper noun? 4. What is a common noun? 5. What particular cla.s.ses are included among common nouns? 6. What is a collective noun? 7. What is an abstract noun? 8. What is a verbal or participial noun? 9. What modifications have nouns? 10. What are _Persons_, in grammar? 11. How many persons are there, and what are they called? 12.

What is the first person? 13. What is the second person? 14. What is the third person? 15. What are _Numbers_, in grammar? 16. How many numbers are there, and what are they called? 17. What is the singular number? 18. What is the plural number? 19. How is the plural number of nouns regularly formed? 20. How is the regular plural formed without increase of syllables?

21. How is the regular plural formed when the word gains a syllable? LESSON VI--NOUNS.

1. What are _Genders_, in grammar? 2. How many genders are there, and what are they called? 3. What is the masculine gender? 4. What is the feminine gender? 5. What is the neuter gender? 6. What nouns, then, are masculine?

what, feminine? and what, neuter? 7. What inflection of English nouns regularly changes their gender? 8. On what are the different genders founded, and to what parts of speech do they belong? 9. When the noun is such as may be applied to either s.e.x, how is the gender usually determined?

10. What principle of universal grammar determines the gender when both s.e.xes are taken together? 11. What is said of the gender of nouns of mult.i.tude? 12. Under what circ.u.mstances is it common to disregard the distinction of s.e.x? 13. In how many ways are the s.e.xes distinguished in grammar? 14. When the gender is figurative, how is it indicated? 15. What are _Cases_, in grammar? 16. How many cases are there, and what are they called? 17. What is the nominative case? 18. What is the subject of a verb?

19. What is the possessive case? 20. How is the possessive case of nouns formed? 21. What is the objective case? 22. What is the object of a verb, participle, or preposition? 23. What two cases of nouns are alike in form, and how are they distinguished? 24. What is the declension of a noun? 25.

How do you decline the nouns, _friend, man, fox_, and _fly?_

LESSON VII--PARSING.

1. What is required of the pupil in the THIRD PRAXIS? 2. How many definitions are here to be given for each part of speech? 3. How is the following example to be pa.r.s.ed? "The writings of Hannah More appear to me more praise-worthy than Scott's."

[Now pa.r.s.e, in like manner, the three lessons of the _Third Chapter_, or the _Third Praxis_; and then, if you please, you may correct orally the three lessons of _bad English_, with which the Third Chapter concludes.]

LESSON VIII.--ADJECTIVES.

1. What is an ADJECTIVE, and what are the examples given? 2. Into what cla.s.ses may adjectives be divided? 3. What is a common adjective? 4. What is a proper adjective? 5. What is a numeral adjective? 6. What is a p.r.o.nominal adjective? 7. What is a participial adjective? 8. What is a compound adjective? 9. What modifications have adjectives? 10. What is comparison, in grammar? 11. How many and what are the degrees of comparison? 12. What is the positive degree? 13. What is the comparative degree? 14. What is the superlative degree? 15. What adjectives cannot be compared? 16. What adjectives are compared by means of adverbs? 17. How are adjectives regularly compared? 18. What principles of spelling must be observed in the comparing of adjectives? 19. To what adjectives is the regular method of comparison, by _er_ and _est_, applicable? 20. Is there any other method of expressing the degrees of comparison? 21. How are the degrees of diminution, or inferiority, expressed? 22. Has the regular method of comparison any degrees of this kind? 23. Do we ever compare by adverbs those adjectives which can be compared by _er_ and _est_? 24. How do you compare _good? bad, evil_, or _ill? little? much? many?_ 25. How do you compare _far? near? fore? hind? in? out? up? low? late?_ 26. What words want the positive? 27. What words want the comparative?

LESSON IX.--PARSING.

1. What is required of the pupil in the FOURTH PRAXIS? 2. How many definitions are here to be given for each part of speech? 3. How is the following example pa.r.s.ed? "The best and most effectual method of teaching grammar, is precisely that of which the careless are least fond: teach learnedly, rebuking whatsoever is false, blundering, or unmannerly."

[Now pa.r.s.e, in like manner, the three lessons of the _Fourth Chapter_, or the _Fourth Praxis_; and then, if you please, you may correct orally the three lesons of _bad English_, with which the Fourth Chapter concludes.]

LESSON X.--p.r.o.nOUNS.

1. What is a p.r.o.nOUN, and what is the example given? 2. How many p.r.o.nouns are there? 3. How are p.r.o.nouns divided? 4. What is a personal p.r.o.noun? 5.

How many and what are the simple personal p.r.o.nouns? 6. How many and what are the compound personal p.r.o.nouns? 7. What is a relative p.r.o.noun? 8. Which are the relative p.r.o.nouns? 9. What peculiarity has the relative _what_? 10.

What is an interrogative p.r.o.noun? 11. Which are the interrogative p.r.o.nouns?

12. Do _who, which_, and _what_, all ask the same question? 13. What modifications have p.r.o.nouns? 14. Why are not these things defined under the head of p.r.o.nouns? 15. What is the declension of a p.r.o.noun? 16. How do you decline the p.r.o.noun _I? Thou? He? She? It?_ 17. What is said of the compound personal p.r.o.nouns? 18. How do you decline the p.r.o.noun _Myself?

Thyself? Himself? Herself? Itself?_ 19. Are the interrogative p.r.o.nouns declined like the simple relatives? 20. How do you decline _Who? Which?

What? That? As?_ 21. Have the compound relative p.r.o.nouns any declension?

22. How do you decline _Whoever? Whosoever? Whichever? Whichsoever?

Whatever? Whatsoever?_

LESSON XI.--PARSING.

1. What is required of the pupil in the FIFTH PRAXIS? 2. How many definitions are here to be given for each part of speech? 3. How is the following example pa.r.s.ed? "Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against G.o.d? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?"

[Now pa.r.s.e, in like manner, the three lessons of the _Fifth Chapter_, or the _Fifth Praxis_; and then, if you please, you may correct orally the three lessons of _bad English_, with which the Fifth Chapter concludes.]

LESSON XII.--VERBS.

1. What is a VERB, and what are the examples given? 2. Why are verbs called by that name? 3. Respecting an English verb, what things are to be sought in the first place? 4. What is _the Present_? 5. What is _the Preterit_? 6.

What is _the Imperfect Participle_? 7. What is the _Perfect Participle_? 8.

How are verbs divided, with respect to their form? 9. What is a regular verb? 10. What is an irregular verb? 11. What is a redundant verb? 12. What is a defective verb? 13. How are verbs divided, with respect to their signification? 14. What is an active-transitive verb? 15. What is an active-intransitive verb? 16. What is a pa.s.sive verb? 17. What is a neuter verb? 18. What modifications have verbs? 19. What are _Moods_, in grammar?

20. How many moods are there, and what are they called? 21. What is the infinitive mood? 22. What is the indicative mood? 23. What is the potential mood? 24. What is the subjunctive mood? 25. What is the imperative mood?

LESSON XIII.--VERBS.

1. What are _Tenses_, in grammar? 2. How many tenses are there, and what are they called? 3. What is the present tense? 4. What is the imperfect tense? 5. What is the perfect tense? 6. What is the pluperfect tense? 7.

What is the first-future tense? 8. What is the second-future tense? 9. What are the _Person_ and _Number_ of a verb? 10. How many persons and numbers belong to verbs? 11. Why are not these things defined under the head of verbs? 12. How are the second and third persons singular distinctively formed? 13. How are the person and number of a verb ascertained, where no peculiar ending is employed to mark them? 14. What is the conjugation of a verb? 15. What are the PRINc.i.p.aL PARTS in the conjugation of a verb? 16.

What is a verb called which wants some of these parts? 17. What is an auxiliary, in grammar? 18. What verbs are used as auxiliaries? 19. What are the inflections of the verb _do_, in its simple tenses? 20. What are the inflections of the verb _be_, in its simple tenses? 21. What are the inflections of the verb _have_, in its simple tenses? 22. What are the inflections and uses of _shall_ and _will_? 23. What are the inflections and uses of _may_? 24. What are the inflections and uses of _can_? 25. What are the uses of _must_, which is uninflected? 26. To what style is the inflecting of _shall, will, may, can, should, would, might_, and _could_, now restricted?

LESSON XIV.--VERBS.

1. What is the simplest form of an English conjugation? 2. What is the first example of conjugation? 3. What are the princ.i.p.al parts of the verb LOVE? 4. How many and what tenses has the _infinitive_ mood?--the _indicative_?--the _potential_?--the _subjunctive_?--the _imperative_? 9.

What is the verb LOVE in the _Infinitive_, present?--perfect?-- _Indicative_, present?--imperfect?--perfect?--pluperfect?--first-future?-- second-future?--_Potential_, present?--imperfect?--perfect?--pluperfect?-- _Subjunctive_, present?--imperfect?--_Imperative_, present? 24. What are its participles?

LESSON XV.--VERBS.

1. What is the synopsis of the verb LOVE, in the first person singular?--second person singular, solemn style?--third person singular?--first person plural?--second person plural?--third person plural? 7. If the second person singular of this verb be used familiarly, how should it be formed?

LESSON XVI.--VERBS.

1. What is the second example of conjugation? 2. What are the princ.i.p.al parts? 3. How is the verb SEE conjugated throughout? 4. How do you form a synopsis of the verb _see_, with the p.r.o.noun _I? thou? he? we? you? they?_

LESSON XVII.--VERBS.

1. What is the third example of conjugation? 2. What are the princ.i.p.al parts? 3. How is the verb BE conjugated? 4. How do you form a synopsis of the verb _be_, with the nominative _I? thou? he? we? you? they? the man?

the men?_

LESSON XVIII.--VERBS.

1. What is the compound form of conjugating active or neuter verbs? 2. What peculiar meaning does this form convey? 3. What is the fourth example of conjugation? 4. What are the princ.i.p.al parts of the simple verb READ? 5.

How is the verb READ conjugated in the compound form? 6. How do you form a synopsis of the verb BE READING, with the nominative _I? thou? he? we? you?

they? the boy? the boys?_

LESSON XIX.--VERBS.

1. How are pa.s.sive verbs formed? 2. What is the fifth example of conjugation? 3. How is the pa.s.sive verb BE LOVED conjugated throughout? 4.

How do you form a synopsis of the verb BE LOVED, with the nominative _I?

thou? he? we? you? they? the child? the children?_

LESSON XX.--VERBS.

1. How is a verb conjugated negatively? 2. How is the form of negation exemplified by the verb _love_ in the first person singular? 3. What is the form of negation for the solemn style, second person singular? 4. What is the form for the familiar style? 5. What is the negative form of the verb _love_ with the p.r.o.noun _he_? 6. How is the verb conjugated interrogatively? 7. What is the interrogative form of the verb _love_ with the p.r.o.noun _I_? 8. What is the form of question in the solemn style, with this verb in the second person singular? 9. How are such questions asked in the familiar style? 10. What is the interrogative form of the verb _love_ with the p.r.o.noun _he_? 11. How is a verb conjugated interrogatively and negatively? 12. How is the negative question exemplified in the first person plural? 13. How is the negative question exemplified in the second person plural? 14. How is the like synopsis formed in the third person plural?

LESSON XXI.--VERBS.

1. What is an irregular verb? 2. How many simple irregular verbs are there?

3. What are the princ.i.p.al parts of the following verbs: Arise, be, bear, beat, begin, behold, beset, bestead, bid, bind, bite, bleed, break, breed, bring, buy, cast, chide, choose, cleave, cling, come, cost, cut, do, draw, drink, drive, eat, fall, feed, feel, fight, find, flee, fling, fly, forbear, forsake, get, give, go, grow, have, hear, hide, hit, hold, hurt, keep, know, lead, leave, lend, let, lie, lose, make, meet, outdo, put, read, rend, rid, ride, ring, rise, run, say, see, seek, sell, send, set, shed, shoe, shoot, shut, shred, shrink, sing, sink, sit, slay, sling, slink, smite, speak, spend, spin, spit, spread, spring, stand, steal, stick, sting, stink, stride, strike, swear, swim, swing, take, teach, tear, tell, think, thrust, tread, wear, win, write?

LESSON XXII.--VERBS.

1. What is a redundant verb? 2. How many redundant verbs are there? 3. What are the princ.i.p.al parts of the following verbs: Abide, awake, belay, bend, bereave, beseech, bet, betide, blend, bless, blow, build, burn, burst, catch, clothe, creep, crow, curse, dare, deal, dig, dive, dream, dress, dwell, freeze, geld, gild, gird, grave, grind, hang, heave, hew, kneel, knit, lade, lay, lean, leap, learn, light, mean, mow, mulet, pa.s.s, pay, pen, plead, prove, quit, rap, reave, rive, roast, saw, seethe, shake, shape, shave, shear, s.h.i.+ne, show, sleep, slide, slit, smell, sow, speed, spell, spill, split, spoil, stave, stay, string, strive, strow, sweat, sweep, swell, thrive, throw, wake, wax, weave, wed, weep, wet, whet, wind, wont, work, wring? 4. What is a defective verb? 5. What verbs are defective?