Def. 1.

2. How are thoughts and feelings indicated? Def. 1.
3. What can you say of Natural Language?
4. Describe Artificial Language. Def. 1. Obs. 3.
5. Of what does Spoken Language consist?
6. Of what does Written Language consist? Def.

GRAMMAR.

Def.

Obs. 2.

1. What is Grammar? Define General Grammar. Def. 4. Obs. 1.

2. What is Particular Grammar? Def. 4. Obs. 2.

3. What should every Particular Grammar include? Def. 4. Rem.

Def. 7, 8. Rem.

4. What is English Grammar? Define a letter. Def. 5, 6. 5. Define a Word. What is a Phrase? 6. Point out the Phrases in the following:

"At midnight, in his guarded tent,

The Turk was dreaming of the hour

When Greece, her knee in suppliance bent,
Should tremble at his power."

7. What is a Sentence? Def. 9.

8. Illustrate your definition by examples. Def. 9, Ex.

WORDS.

1. Words are distinguished as how many Parts of Speech? Prin.

2. Give the Parts of Speech. Prin.

3. Describe a Noun. A Pronoun. An Adjective. Def. 10– 12.

4. Illustrate each of the above by an example.

5. Describe a Verb, and tell what belongs to it. Def. 13.

6. Define an Adverb. A Preposition. Def. 14, 15.

7. What is a Conjunction?

ANS.-A word used to connect words, phrases, and sentences.

8. What is an Exclamation? Def. 17.

9. What is a Word of Euphony? Def. 18.

10. Give examples of Words of Euphony.

"There are no idlers here." "Now, then, we are prepared to defend our position."

PHRASES.

1. For what are Phrases used? Rem. P. 19.

2. How are Phrases distinguished?

Prin. P. 19.

3. What is a Substantive Phrase? Def. 19.

4. Point out and tell the offices the Phrases perform in the following sentences:

"To be, contents his natural desire." "His being a minister prevented his rising to civil power." "I doubted his having been a soldier." 5. What offices do Substantive Phrases perform? Obs.

Def. 19,

6. What is the office of an Adjective Phrase? Def. 20.

7. Designate the Adjective Phrases in the following:

"The time of my departure is at hand." "Forgetting the things that are behind I press forward."

8. What is an Adverbial Phrase? Def. 21.

9. Designate the Adverbial Phrases in the following:

"God moves in a mysterious way." "Truth crushed to earth will rise again."

10. Define an Independent Phrase. Def. 22.

11. What office does an Independent Phrase perform in a sentence? Def. 22, Obs.

12. Designate the Independent Phrases in the following:

"The hour having arrived we commenced the exercises."

"The sun having risen, we set sail."

"The bugle having sounded, the charge was made."

13. If you approve of distinguishing Phrases according to their forms, instead of the offices which they perform, tell how many classes there are, and name them. 14. Describe a Prepositional Phrase. 15. Describe an Infinitive Phrase. 16. Describe a Participal Phrase. 17. Give a sentence illustrating an Independent Phrase. Def.

26.

Def. 22, Prin.
Give an Ex. Def. 23.
Give an Ex. Def. 24.
Give an Ex. Def. 25.

18. Of what does a Phrase consist? Def. 26,

Pr.

19. What are the principal elements of a Phrase? Def. 27.

20. Define the Adjuncts of a Phrase. Def. 28.

21. Designate the Principal Elements and Adjuncts in the following:

"Birds sang

amid the whispering shade."

"Rays of limpid light gleamed round their path."

22. What is the leader or connective of a Phrase? Def. 29, Obs.

23. Point out the leaders or connectives in the following:

"Like a spirit it came, in the van of a storm."

'Enough remains of glimmering light

To guide the wanderer's steps aright."

"I am monarch of all I survey;

My right there is none to dispute."

24. Define a Participle. Describe a Subsequent or essential element of a Phrase.

25. When any element of a Phrase is suppressed, how do you treat that part of the Phrase which is expressed? P. 23. Obs. 2. 26. Designate the Subsequent of a Phrase, and illustrate the principle in question 25th from the following:

"At parting, too, there was a long ceremony in the Hall; buttoning up great coats, tying on woolen comforters, pinning silk handkerchiefs over the mouth and up to the ears, and grasping sturdy walking canes to support unsteady feet.” "These crowd around to ask him of his health." "William came home." "Mary has come to school early." "I love to see the sun rise."

SENTENCES.

1. What is a Sentence? P. 23. Rem.

2. What are the Elements of a Sentence? Def. 32.

3. What is essential to the structure of a Sentence? Def. 32. 4. What is the Subject of a Sentence? Def. 32. Rem. 1. 5. What are the parts of a Sentence? P. 24. Prin.

6. What is the Predicate of a Sentence? Def. 32. Rem. 7. What are Principal Elements? Adjunct Elements? Def. 33, 34.

8. Point out the Principal and Adjunct Elements in the following sentences:

"The night passed away in song." "The King of Shadows loves a shining mark."

"There in his noisy mansion, skilled to rule,

The village master taught his little school."

9. Define Subordinate Elements, and designate them in the following:

"Lend me your songs, ye Nightingales." "Oh Liberty! I wait for thee." "There are no idlers here." "I sit me down a pensive hour to spend."

10. What must every Sentence have? Def. 35.

11. Is there any distinction between a Logical and Grammatical Subject? If so give it.

12. What is the difference between a Grammatical and Logical Predicate? Give the distinction between a Grammatical and Logical Object. Def. 37, 38.

13. In the following Sentences tell whether the Subject, Predicate and Object are Grammatical or Logical:

"Birds fly." "Knowledge is power."

"They that seek me early, shall find me."

"To do good, is the duty of all men."

"At what time he took orders, doth not appear."

“That all men are created equal is a self-evident truth." "Thou art perched aloft on the beetling crag."

"I regret his being absent."

"The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God."

"God said, let there be light."

"God never meant that man should scale the heavens,

By strides of human Wisdom."

DIAGRAMS.

1. What is a diagram, and what is its object in Grammar? P. 36.

2. What determines the position of an element in the Diagram? Rem.

3. Illustrate by an example. P. 36.

GENERAL RULES.

1. What position do the principal elements occupy in the Diagram? R. P. 36.

2. What position do the subject, predicate, and object, occupy in a Diagram? R. 2, 3, 4. P. 36, 37.

3. What position do the Adjunct, Conjunction and Relative in a diagram? R. 5-10, 12. P. 37, 38.

Pronoun occupy

CLASSIFICATION OF SENTENCES.

1. How are Sentences distinguished? Pr. P. 38.

2. Describe an Intransitive Sentence, and give an example. Def. 43.

3. Define a Transitive Sentence, and give an example. Def. 44.

4. In the following Sentences, designate which are Transitive, and which Intransitive:

"God is love." "On some fond breast the parting soul relies." "Virtue secures happiness." "Fishes swim." "Industry promotes health and wealth." "John walks."

5. Define a Simple Sentence. A Compound Sentence. Def. 45, 46.

6. In the following, tell which are Compound, and which Simple:

Frank is diligent. James is quiet. The boys run. Maggie and Flora study Latin. "Temperance elevates and ennobles man."

7. What are the clauses of a Compound Sentence? Def. 46, (b.)

8. Designate in the following, what clauses are Compounded: John and James study Philosophy. Anna reads Latin and French. Phebe studies and recites Algebra and Geometry. Slowly and sadly Minnie and Maggie ride and walk up yon high and distant mountain and woodland.

9. What is a Mixed Sentence? Def. 46, (e.)

10. Designate which of the following Sentences is Mixed:

"Time slept on flowers and lent his glass to hope."

"Who can observe the careful ant, and not provide for future want."

11. What is a Principal Sentence? Def. 47.

12. Describe an Auxiliary Sentence. Def. 48.

13. Define a Complex Sentence. Def. 48. Obs. P. 42. 14. Designate which of the following Sentences is Principal. Which Auxiliary. Which Complex: