CONNECTIVES. 1 What is a connective? P. 194. 3 What is a co-ordinate connective? 4 Repeat the list of co-ordinate connectives. 5 What is meant by office in the definition of co-ordinate connective? 6 What is a secondary connective? Give examples. 7 What name is usually given to connectives of phrases? P. 195. 8 Give examples of phrases which are essential elements of other phrases. 9 What can you say of the uses of into, to, and at? P. 196. 10 How do you parse a secondary connective. INDEPENDENT WORDS. 1 How many kinds of independent words are there? P. 198. 2 Name them. Describe each. NOTE.-Analysis in grammar consists in resolving a sentence, by a regular method, into its elements, and showing their various relations.- Welch. First analyze the following piece, then parse all the words in it. "Just then a scout came flying, All wild with haste and fear; -Macaulay. PUNCTUATION. 1 What is punctuation? See Webster s Dictionary. 2 Where is the period used? See Sills' GramP. 225. mar, 3 Where is the colon used? See Sills' Grammar, P. 225. 4 Where is the semicolon used? See Sills' Grammar, P. 226. 5 Where is the comma used? See Sill's Grammar, P. 227. 6 What does the dash indicate? P. 229. 7 Where is the mark of interrogation used? P. 229. 8 Where is the mark of exclamation used? P. 229. 9 For what is the parenthesis used? P. 230. 10 What does the apostrophe denote? 11 66 do marks of quotation show? USES OF CAPITALS. 66 1 Repeat the rules for the use of capitals. P. 230. 2 Correct the following exercises: "maidens' eyes. "annie's Eyes are like the Night, i could kiss them Night and day; Morning, evening, noon, and night." Songs of Triumph and rejoicing are now on every Loyal tongue throughout the Land. hail columbia' will be wafted on the breeze from the Great Lakes of the North to the gulf of Mexico, and from the atlantic to the pacific." "I had in my pocket a copy of Robinson crusoe, but the Coach jolted so terribly that i could not Read." INTELLECTUAL ARITHMETIC. REMARK.-The following questions for review in the important study of Intellectual Arithmetic, have been selected from Davies' Intellectual Arithmetic. All classes studying arithmetic, no matter how advanced, should have thorough and frequent drills in Intellectual Arithmetic. COMPARISON OF NUMBERS. 1 What part of 12 is 4? P. 108, Ex. 3. 3 What part of 30 dollars is 5 dollars? P. 109, Ex. 1. 4 What is the ratio of 30 to 5? 5 A vessel sails 150 miles one day, and is retarded of as much on the second: what part of 150 miles did she sail the second day? P. 111, Ex. 23. 663 is of what number? P. 112, Ex. 18. 7 A grocer bought 5 boxes of raisins for 23 dollars a box, and a barrel of sugar, which cost of as much as the raisins: how much less did the raisins cost him than the sugar? P. 114, Ex. 19. 8 of 96 is of how many times 5? P. 116, Ex. 43. 9 A staff 5 ft. long casts a shadow of 3 ft.: what is the length of a pole that casts a shadow of 24 ft. the same time of day? P. 117. Ex. 11. 10 of 84 is of how many times P. 121. Ex. 35. of 45? 11 Buffalo is 325 miles from Albany, and of this distance is 3 times the distance from Rochester to Buffalo: what is the distance? P. 122. Ex. 12. COMPARISON OF THE UNITS OF DENOMINATE 1 What part of a ton is 65 lbs? P. 123. Ex. 26. 2 Four minutes is what part of a day? P. 125. Ex. 50. 3 If 10 lbs. of hay cost 5 mills, how much will a ton cost? P. 126. Ex. 20. PER CENT. AND PER CENTAGE. 1 What part of a number is 5 per cent. of that number? P. 128. Ex. 23. 2 What per cent. of any number is of it? of it? P. 129. Ex. 29. 35 is what per cent. of 20? P. 129, Ex. 30. 4 If molasses costs 30 cents a gallon, what must it be sold for to yield a profit of 20 per cent. ? 33 per cent.? P. 131. Ex. 18. INTEREST. 1 What is the interest of $200 for 2 years at 5 per cent.? P. 132. Ex. 6. 2 What is the interest of $200, for 3 months at 4 per cent.? P. 134. Ex. 1. 3. What is the interest of $15, for 25 days, at 8 per cent.? P. 135. Ex. 28. 4 What is the interest of $84, for 2 years, 4 months, and 3 days, at 6 per cent. P. 136. Ex. 38. ANALYSIS OF QUESTIONS. 1 If 8 lbs. of coffee is of the same value as 3 Ibs. of tea, how many lbs. of tea will 24 lbs. of coffee buy? P. 137. Ex. 14. 2 If 4 horses, in two days, eat 5 bushels of oats, how much will 6 horses eat in 4 days? P. 139. Ex. 3. 3 If 3 horses eat 3 tons of hay in 2 months how much will supply 5 horses for 4 months? P. 141. Ex. 30. 4 A and B enter into partnership: A puts in $7, and B $11: they make $9 by the operation: how should it be divided? P. 146. Ex. 22. 5 A market woman bought 36 eggs; for of them she paid 2 cents for 3 eggs, and the remainder she bought at the rate of 4 cents for 3 eggs: for what must she sell them that she may make 6 cents? P. 149. Ex. 24. 6 Divide 52 into two such parts that of the larger part shall be equal to the less part. P. 153. Ex. 13. |