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.

1.  What is a redundant verb? 2.  How many redundant verbs are there? 3.  What are the principal parts of the following verbs:  Abide, awake, belay, bend, bereave, beseech, bet, betide, blend, bless, blow, build, burn, burst, catch, clothe, creep, crow, curse, dare, deal, dig, dive, dream, dress, dwell, freeze, geld, gild, gird, grave, grind, hang, heave, hew, kneel, knit, lade, lay, lean, leap, learn, light, mean, mow, mulet, pass, pay, pen, plead, prove, quit, rap, reave, rive, roast, saw, seethe, shake, shape, shave, shear, shine, show, sleep, slide, slit, smell, sow, speed, spell, spill, split, spoil, stave, stay, string, strive, strow, sweat, sweep, swell, thrive, throw, wake, wax, weave, wed, weep, wet, whet, wind, wont, work, wring? 4.  What is a defective verb? 5.  What verbs are defective?

LESSON XXIII.—­PARSING.

1.  What is required of the pupil in the SIXTH PRAXIS? 2.  How many definitions are here to be given for each part of speech? 3.  How is the following example parsed?  “The freedom of choice seems essential to happiness; because, properly speaking, that is not our own which is imposed upon us.”

[Now parse, in like manner, the three lessons of the Sixth Chapter, or the Sixth Praxis; and then, if you please, you may correct orally the three lessons of bad English, with which the Sixth Chapter concludes.]

LESSON XXIV.—­PARTICIPLES.

1.  What is a PARTICIPLE, and how is it generally formed? 2.  How many kinds of participles are there, and what are they called? 3.  What is the imperfect participle? 4.  What is the perfect participle? 5.  What is the preperfect participle? 6.  How is the first or imperfect participle formed? 7.  How is the second or perfect participle formed? 8.  How is the third or preperfect participle formed? 9.  What are the participles of the following verbs, according to the simplest form of conjugation:  Repeat, study, return, mourn, seem, rejoice, appear, approach, suppose, think, set, come, rain, stand, know, deceive?

LESSON XXV.—­PARSING.

1.  What is required of the pupil in the SEVENTH PRAXIS? 2.  How many definitions are here to be given for each part of speech? 3.  How is the following example parsed:  “Religion, rightly understood and practised, has the purest of all joys attending it.”

[Now parse, in like manner, the three lessons of the Seventh Chapter, or the Seventh Praxis; and then, if you please, you may correct orally the three lessons of bad English, with which the Seventh Chapter concludes.]

LESSON XXVI.—­ADVERBS.

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