LESSON LVI.

DIFFERENT USES OF THE SAME WORD.

Give a reason for the classification of cach italicized word in the following examples:

All:

1. All men are mortal. (Adjective.)

2. All joined in the song. (Adjective Pronoun.)

3. My all is lost. (Noun.)

4. I am all alone. (Adverb.)

As:

1. He wrote as (Adverb of Degree) well as (Conjunctive Adverb) he could.

2. As he was ambitious, I slew him. (Conjunction.)

3. The days of man are but as grass [is]. (Conjunction.) 4. We are such stuff as dreams are made of. (Relative Pronoun.)

Before:

1. He stood before me. (Preposition.)

2. Look before you leap. (Conjunction.)

3. She had not entered this hall before. (Adverb.)

Both:

1. Stretch out both thy hands. (Adjective.)

2. She both laughed and cried. (Conjunction.)

But:

1. Fools admire, but men of sense approve. (Conjunction.) 2. Nought is heard but [except] the lashing waves. (Preposition.)

3. Man wants but little here below. (Adverb.)

4.

Else:

There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended,

But has one vacant chair. (Relative Pronoun.)

1. Anybody else would consent. (Adjective.)

2. Where else could he go? (Adverb.)

3. I have no tears, else would I weep for thee. (Conjunction.)

Enough:

1. Enough is as good as a feast. (Noun.)
2. They have books enough. (Adjective.)
3. He has worked long enough. (Adverb.)

Except:

I. No one heard the alarm except me. (Preposition.)

2. I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. (Conjunction.)

For:

1. We shall wait for the boat. (Preposition.)

2. I called, for I was wild with fear. (Conjunction.)

However:

1. However busy he may be, he will aid you. (Adverb.)

2. These conditions, however, he could not accept. (Conjunction.)

Like:

1. This box is like yours. (Adjective.)

2. He ran like a deer. (Adverb.)

3. I like to read. (Verb.)

Since:

I. I have not thought of the matter since. (Adverb.) 2. We have not heard from him since morning. (Preposition.) 3. Since the books are here, we will use them. (Conjunction.)

So:

I. So ended the conflict. (Adverb.)

2. The library was closed, so we returned home. (Conjunction.)

That:

1. That book is lost. (Adjective.)

2. That is the cause of the trouble.

(Adjective Pronoun.) 3. Here is the man that gave the order. (Relative Pronoun.) 4. I know that the work will be done. (Conjunction.)

2. The more, the merrier. (Adverb of Degree.)

LESSON LVII.

SELECTIONS FOR STUDY.

Parse the italicized words in the following exercises, giving a full explanation of the different constructions:

EXERCISE I.

Whoever has made a voyage up the Hudson, must remember the Kaatskill Mountains. They are a dismembered

branch of the great Appalachian family, and are seen away to the west of the river, swelling up to a noble height, and lording it over the surrounding country. Every change of season, every change of weather, indeed, every hour of the day, produces some change in the magical hues and shapes of these mountains; and they are regarded by all the good wives, far and near, as perfect barometers. When the weather is fair and settled, they are clothed in blue and purple, and print their bold outlines on the clear evening sky; but sometimes, when the rest of the landscape is cloudless, they will gather a hood of gray vapors about their summits, which in the last rays of the setting sun, will glow and light up like a crown of glory. — WASHINGTON IRVING.

EXERCISE II.

"Have, then, thy wish!" He whistled shrill,

And he was answered from the hill;

Wild as the scream of the curlew,

From crag to crag the signal flew.
Instant, through copse and heath, arose
Bonnets and spears and bended bows;
On right, on left, above, below,
Sprung up at once the lurking foe ;
From shingles gray their lances start,
The bracken bush sends forth the dart,
The rushes and the willow-wand

Are bristling into axe and brand,
And every tuft of broom gives life

To plaided warrior armed for strife.

SIR WALTER SCOTT.

EXERCISE III.

All the inhabitants of the little village are busy. One is clearing a spot on the verge of the forest for his homestead; another is hewing the trunk of a fallen pine-tree, in order to build himself a dwelling; a third is hoeing in his field of Indian corn. Here comes a huntsman out of the woods, dragging a bear which he has shot, and shouting to the neighbors to lend him a hand. There goes a man to the sea-shore, with a spade and a bucket, to dig a mess of clams, which were a principal article of food with the first settlers. Scattered here and there are two or three dusky figures, clad in mantles of fur, with ornaments of bone hanging from their ears, and the feathers of wild birds in their coal-black hair. They have belts of shell-work slung across their shoulders, and are armed with bows and arrows

and flint-headed spears. These are an Indian sagamore and his attendants, who have come to gaze at the labors of the white men. And now rises a cry that a pack of wolves have seized a young calf in the pasture; and every man snatches up his gun or pike and runs in chase of the marauding beasts. - NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE.