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81 In what respect do the pronoun and its subsequent agree?

82 Which one of these pronouns is declinable? Decline it. P. 106.

83 What can you say of the agreement between an interrogative pronoun and its subsequent, as to gender, person, and number?

84 Show the difference between an interrogative and a compound relative?

85 Correct the following examples, and parse the nouns and pronouns :

"Who have you seen?" 4 "Who do you work for?" one must be a judge of their

"Who do you take me to be?" "Is he as tall as me?" "Every own affairs."

86 Parse the nouns and pronouns in the following:

"Mine is a difficult duty." "He sold his property for whatever he could get." "I have found what you looked for." "I will attend to my affairs if he will attend to his." "Whatever injures the body impairs the mind."

87 What is an adjective pronoun? P. 112. 88 Can you supply nouns with all adjective pronouns?

89 When the noun is supplied what does the word become?

90 Are adjective pronouns declinable or indeclinable?

91 Give a sentence containing an adjective pronoun, and parse the adjective pronoun.

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4 What is meant by comparison? P. 115.
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adjectives are compared?

6 How many and what degrees have they? 7 What does the comparative degree show? How formed?

8 Can we add er directly to every comparable adjective?

9 What rule of spelling applies to the comparison of adjectives ending in e, as noble, feeble, etc.? P. 117.

10 Which rule to those ending in y, as mighty, hearty, etc. P. 117.

11 Which rule to those like hot, red, thin, slim, etc.?

12 Repeat each of these rules.

13 What degree of comparison is used when only two objects are compared? P. 116.

14 Correct the following example:

"John and Isaac are large boys, but John is the largest." 15 What is the superlative degree? formed?

How

16 When several objects are compared, what degree of comparison is employed?

17 Correct the following:

"The larger of the three boys failed." "Arthur is the taller of them all."

18 What can you say of a substitute for a comparison?

19 What can you say of the comparison of adjectives that denote invariable quality? P. 118.

20 What can you say of irregular comparison? 21 What do adnominal words limit? Principle 10, P. 120.

22 Parse the nouns, pronouns, and adjectives in the following:

"He was a good man." "No funeral train is sweeping past."

23 Correct the following:

"You write beautiful." "You do not behave good." "Read distinct."

24 What can you say of the articles a, an, the? P. 123.

25 Give examples of the improper use of a, an, and the.

26 What adjectives have plurals? P. 124. 27 How should these agree with their nouns? 28 How is them sometimes improperly used? 29 How are adjectives usually placed? 30 What adjectives are usually placed after their nouns?

31 What can you say of only and alone? 32 Parse the nouns, pronouns, and adjectives in the following:

"Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows,
And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows;
But when loud surges lash the sounding shore,
The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar."

VERBS.

1 What is a verb? Give examples. P. 127. 2 How many kinds of verbs are there. Name them.

3 From what do sentences take their names? 4 What is an intransitive verb? Give examples. P. 128.

5 What is a transitive verb? Give examples. P. 128.

6 What is a neuter verb? Give examples. P. 128.

7 What is the difference between a transitive and a neuter verb? P. 128.

8 How many kinds of verbs require complements?

9 How many kinds of verbs require no complements?

10 What must the complement of a neuter verb be? P. 129.

11 What must the complement of a transitive verb be? P. 129.

12 What does neuter mean?

13 What do most grammarians mean by a neuter verb?

14 What is usually the complement of a neuter verb?

15 What else may be the complement of a neuter verb?

16 What can you say of the complement when it is a noun ?

17 Are any verbs always neuter?

18 What will always be the test?

19 "God says, I am," what kind of a verb is

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4 What is the subject of a participle? P. 134. 5 How many participles will every verb have? 6 Do any verbs have more? Give examples. 7 Give the names of the two participles of every verb.

8 What is an imperfect participle? How is it formed? P. 135.

9 What is a perfect participle? How is it formed? P. 135.

10 Of how many words is a perfect participle formed.

11 What verbs have three participles? Name them.

12 What is the third participle? How formed? 13 Point out the participles in the following examples, name the class to which each belongs, and the noun or pronoun which it limits:

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