EXERCISES IN PARSING.

Nom. case.  Intran. verb.  Nom. case.  Intran. verb. 
Men labor.  The sun sets. 
Armies march.  The moon rises. 
Vessels sail.  The stars twinkle. 
Birds fly.  The rain descends. 
Clouds move.  The river flows. 
Multitudes perish.  The nation mourns.

Your improvement in grammar depends, not on the number of words which you parse, but on the attention which you give the subject. You may parse the same exercises several times over.

For the gratification of those who prefer it, I here present another

DIVISION OF VERBS.

Verbs are of two kinds, transitive and intransitive.

A verb is transitive when the action affects an object; as, “Earthquakes rock kingdoms; thrones and palaces are shaken down; and potentates, princes, and subjects, are buried in one common grave.”

The nominative to a passive verb, is the object, but not the agent, of the action.

A verb is intransitive when it has no object; as, “The waters came upon me;” “I am he who was, and is, and is to come.”

As an exercise on what you have been studying, I will now put to you a few questions, all of which you ought to be able to answer before you proceed any farther.

QUESTIONS NOT ANSWERED IN PARSING.

With what two general divisions of grammar does the second lecture begin?—­Of what does Etymology treat?—­Of what does Syntax treat?—­On what is based the true principle of classification?—­How do you ascertain the part of speech to which a word belongs?—­What is meant by its manner of meaning?—­Name the ten parts of speech.—­Which of these are considered the most important?—­By what sign may a noun be distinguished?—­How many kinds of nouns are there?—­What belong to nouns?—­What is gender?—­How many genders have nouns?—­What is person?—­How many persons have nouns?—­What is number?—­How many numbers have nouns?—­What is case?—­How many cases have nouns?—­Does case consist in the inflections of a noun?—­How many kinds of verbs are there?—­By what sign may a verb be known?—­What belong to verbs?—­What is synthesis?—­What is analysis?—­What is parsing?—­Repeat the order of parsing the noun.—­Repeat the order of parsing the verb.—­What rule do you apply in parsing a noun in the possessive case?—­What rule, in parsing a noun in the nominative case?—­What rule applies in parsing a verb?—­What is meant by government?—­Explain rules 3, 4, and 12.—­By what rule are the nominative and objective cases of nouns known?—­By what sign can you distinguish a transitive from an intransitive verb?—­Do transitive verbs ever express a moral action?—­Are intransitive and neuter verbs ever used as transitive?—­Give some examples of transitive verbs with personal and verbal objects.—­What rule do you apply in parsing a noun in the objective case?—­Explain rule 20.—­In parsing a verb agreeing with a noun of multitude conveying plurality of idea, what rule do you apply?