is that pronoun in the objective case? What is the antecedent to that relative pronoun? What is the different signification of which and who? How do you decline who? How do you know that pronoun to be possessive? In what instances do possessive pronouns change their terminations? Which are the masculine, the feminine, the neuter pronouns? Why is the pronoun masculine, or feminine, or neuter, used in that sentence? Of which person is I, or thou, or he, she, it, significative? Why are pronouns sometimes omitted, and sometimes repeated? How do you know that word to be a verb? Is it transitive or intransitive? Why do you say that it is transitive? Why do you say that it is intransitive? What is its subject or nominative case? What is its object or accusative case? In what tense is it? By what change of termination is time passed expressed? How is future action expressed? How are all other varieties and shades of the times of action expressed? How do you know that word to be the participle present? What case of the personal pronoun does it govern? How do you know that to be the participle past? you say vii Why do that that verb is in the second person singular? Why do you say that the other verb is in the third person singular? How must verbs agree with their subjects or nominatives? What is the form expressing time past, of the verbs, be, have, bring, go, begin, bereave, seek, catch, fight, forsake? In what circumstances are verbs ever omitted, or repeated? How do you know that word to be an adverb? Is it an adverb of time, or place, or of the manner of action? Are adverbs ever compared? What is the proper situation of the adverb ? Are truly, fully, dully, quickly, slowly, adverbs or adjectives? Are lovely, timely, lively, adjectives or adverbs? Why do you call that word a preposition? What case of pronouns does it govern? How ought the preposition to be situated with respect to the word it governs? Which is the word governed by that preposition? When are prepositions omitted, and when are they repeated? Why do you call that word a conjunction? In what cases do conjunctions connect sub stantives? In what tenses do they connect verbs? How do conjunctions affect the termiHow many kinds of con nation of verbs? junctions are there? When are conjunctions omitted or repeated? Why do you call that word an interjection? When do interjections govern the nominative, and when the objective case? When are interjections omitted and repeated? THE KEY TO THE EXERCISES FOR THE ILLUSTRATION AND ENFORCEMENT OF THE RULES OF THE ENGLISH GRAMMAR. PART I. ORTHOGRAPHY. CHAP; I. On the Use of the Letter Y, as a Vowel. A CLEANLY boy will wash his hands when dirty, and will wipe them dry. The lady was neatly dressed, looked good-naturedly, and sang sweetly. Charity is a truly lovely quality. He spake fully and gracefully upon the subject, the duty of pity towards the miserable. My mother! Alas, she is dying ! B The king was busily engaged in fortifying the city. He was beautifying his house with fine pictures and statues. She says that she will be setting off for Paris in ten days. The sun's rays beat fiercely on our unsheltered heads. The Ptolemean system is evidently absurd. She acted systematically in that business. Patience under sufferings generally excites sympathy. James II. being obliged to abdicate the throne of England, sought an asylum in France, with Louis XIV. The letters W and U. The Abyssinians eat raw flesh. The lion wounded, and beat down, the hunter, with one stroke of his paw. She uttered the irrevocable vow. He bent his bow, and wing'd the angry shaft. CHAP. II. RULE 1. Bread is called the staff of life. That lady has a muff made of a grey fox skin. Spanish bull fights and English bull baitings are cruel and disgraceful amusements. A storm of hail broke all the glass of his hot-house. Transparent rills flow'd from the mountain's side. They gave the poor girls comfortable stuff gowns. The bill has passed through both houses of parliament, and will receive the royal assent to-morrow. |