EXERCISES IN PARSING.

These exercises contain a complete variety of Moods and Tenses.

I learn my lesson well.  Charles, thou learnest thy lesson badly.  John, do you write a good hand?  Those ladies wrote a beautiful letter, but they did not despatch it.  Have you seen the gentleman to whom I gave the book?  He has gone.  They had received the news before the messenger arrived.  When will those persons return?  My friend shall receive his reward.  He will have visited me three times, if he come to-morrow.

If Eliza study diligently, she will improve.  If Charles studies he does not improve.  Unless that man shall have accomplished his work, by midsummer, he will receive no wages.  Orlando, obey my precepts, unless you wish to injure yourself.  Remember what is told you.  The physician may administer the medicine, but Providence only can bless it.  I told, him that he might go, but he would not.  He might have gone last week, had he conducted himself properly; (that is, if he had conducted, &c.) Boys, prepare to recite your lessons.  Young ladies, let me hear you repeat what you have learned.  Study, diligently, whatever task may be allotted to you.  To correct the spirit of discontent, let us consider how little we deserve.  To die for one’s country, is glorious.  How can we become wise?  To seek God is wisdom.  What is true greatness?  Active benevolence.  A good man is a great man.

NOTE 1. Man, following great, and what, in the last two examples, are nom. after is:  RULE 21. To seek God, and to die for one’s country, are members of sentences, each put as the nom. case to is respectively:  RULE 24.  The verb to correct is the infinitive mood absolute:  NOTE under RULE 23. May be allotted is a passive verb, agreeing with which, the relative part of whatever.  That, the first part of whatever, is an adj. pronoun, agreeing with task; and task is governed by study. Hear, following let, and repeat, following hear, are in the infinitive mood without the sign to, according to RULE 25. To recite is governed by prepare:  RULE 23. Is told, is a passive verb, agreeing with which, the relative part of whatever; and you, following, is governed by to understood:  NOTE 1, under RULE 32.

    2.  In parsing a pronoun, if the noun for which it stands is not
    expressed, you must say it represents some person or thing
    understood.

LECTURE XIII.

OF THE AUXILIARY, PASSIVE, AND DEFECTIVE VERBS.

I. AUXILIARY VERBS.

Before you attend to the following additional remarks on the Auxiliary Verbs, you will do well to read again what is said respecting them in Lecture XI. page 140.  The short account there given, and their application in conjugating verbs, have already made them quite familiar to you; and you have undoubtedly observed, that, without their help, we cannot conjugate any verb in any of the tenses, except the present and imperfect of the indicative and subjunctive moods, and the present of the imperative and infinitive.  In the formation of all the other tenses, they are brought into requisition.