The Grammar of English Grammars eBook

Goold Brown
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 4,149 pages of information about The Grammar of English Grammars.

The Grammar of English Grammars eBook

Goold Brown
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 4,149 pages of information about The Grammar of English Grammars.

[Now parse, 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.—­PRONOUNS.

1.  What is a PRONOUN, and what is the example given? 2.  How many pronouns are there? 3.  How are pronouns divided? 4.  What is a personal pronoun? 5.  How many and what are the simple personal pronouns? 6.  How many and what are the compound personal pronouns? 7.  What is a relative pronoun? 8.  Which are the relative pronouns? 9.  What peculiarity has the relative what? 10.  What is an interrogative pronoun? 11.  Which are the interrogative pronouns? 12.  Do who, which, and what, all ask the same question? 13.  What modifications have pronouns? 14.  Why are not these things defined under the head of pronouns? 15.  What is the declension of a pronoun? 16.  How do you decline the pronoun I?  Thou?  He?  She?  It? 17.  What is said of the compound personal pronouns? 18.  How do you decline the pronoun Myself?  Thyself?  Himself?  Herself?  Itself? 19.  Are the interrogative pronouns declined like the simple relatives? 20.  How do you decline Who?  Which?  What?  That?  As? 21.  Have the compound relative pronouns 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 parsed?  “Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God?  Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?”

[Now parse, 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 passive 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?

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