Questions on the Verb.

1. Define the verb and its classes. -Less. 92, 132.

2. Name and define the modifications of the verb.-Less. 129, 131. 3. Name and define the several voices, modes, and tenses.-Less 129, 131.

4. Define the participle and its classes.-Less. 131.

5. Define the infinitive.-Less. 131.

6. Give a synopsis of a regular and of an irregular verb in all the different forms.-Less. 134, 135, 136, 137.

7. Analyze the different mode and tense forms, and give the func tions of the different tenses.-Less. 138.

8. Give and illustrate the principles which guide in the use of the mode and tense forms, and of the person and number forms.-Less. 140, 141, 142.

1. Define the adjective and its classes.-Less. 89.

2. Define comparison and the degrees of comparison.-Less. 127. 3. Give and illustrate the regular method and the irregular methods cf comparison.-Less. 127.

4. Give and illustrate the principles which guide in the use of ad jectives.-Less. 90, 91.

5. Give and illustrate the principles which guide in the use of com parative and superlative forms.-Less. 128.

THE PREPOSITION.-No Classes. No Modifications.

THE INTERJECTION.-No Classes. No Modifications.

Questions on the Adverb

1. Define the adverb and its classes.-Less. 92.

2. Illustrate the regular method and the irregular methods of com. parison.-Less. 127.

3. Give and illustrate the principles which guide in the use of ad. verbs.-Less. 93.

Questions on the Conjunction and the Preposition.

1. Define the conjunction and its classes.-Less. 100.

2. Give the principal co-ordinate and subordinate connectives and the office of each.-Less. 100.

3. Give and illustrate the principles which guide in the use of connectives.-Less. 107.

4. Define the preposition, and give and illustrate the principles which guide in its use. -Less. 95, 98, 99.

ADDITIONAL EXAMPLES FOR ANALYSIS.

It is thought by some people that all those stars which you see glittering so restlessly on a keen, frosty night in a high latitude, and which seem to have been sown broadcast with as much carelessness as grain lies on a threshing-floor, here showing vast zaarahs of desert blue sky, there again lying close, and to some eyes presenting

"The beauteous semblance of a flock at rest,"

are, in fact, gathered into zones or strata; that our own wicked little earth, with the whole of our peculiar solar system, is a part of such a zone; and that all this perfect geometry of the heavens, these radii in the mighty wheel, would become apparent, if we, the spectators, could but survey it from the true centre; which centre may be far too distant for any vision of man, naked or armed, to reach.—De Quincey.

On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they [our fathers] raised their flag against a power to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared-a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts; whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth daily with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.-Webster.

In some far-away and yet undreamt-of hour, I can even imagine that England may cast all thoughts of possessive wealth back to the bar baric nations among whom they first arose; and that, while the sands of the Indus and adamant of Golconda may yet stiffen the housings of the charger, and flash from the turban of the slave, she, as a Christian mother, may at last attain to the virtues and the treasures of a Heathen one, and be able to lead forth her Sons, saying,-" These are my Jewels."-Ruskin.

And, when those who have rivalled her [Athens'] greatness shall have shared her fate; when civilization and knowledge shall have fixed their abode in distant continents; when the sceptre shall have passed away from England; when, perhaps, travellers from distant regions shall in

vain labor to decipher on some mouldering pedestal the name of our proudest chief, shall hear savage hymns chanted to some misshaper idol over the ruined dome of our proudest temple, and shall see a single naked fisherman wash his nets in the river of the ten thousand masts, -her influence and her glory will still survive, fresh in eternal youth, exempt from mutability and decay, immortal as the intellectual prin ciple from which they derived their origin, and over which they exer cise their control.—Macaulay.

fo him who in the love of Nature holds

Communion with her visible forms, she speaks
A various language; for his gayer hours
She has a voice of gladness and a smile
And eloquence of beauty, and she glides
Into his darker musings with a mild
And healing sympathy, that steals away
Their sharpness, ere he is aware. When thoughts
Of the last bitter hour come like a blight
Over thy spirit, and sad images

Of the stern agony and shroud and pall
And breathless darkness and the narrow house
Make thee to shudder, and grow sick at heart,—
Go forth under the open sky, and list

To Nature's teachings, while from all around—
Earth and her waters and the depths of air—
Comes a still voice.-Bryant.

Pleasant it was, when woods were green,

And winds were soft and low,

To lie amid some sylvan scene,

Where, the long drooping boughs between,
Shadows dark and sunlight sheen

Alternate come and go ;

Or where the denser grove receives
No sunlight from above,
But the dark foliage interweaves
In one unbroken roof of leaves,
Underneath whose sloping eaves

The shadows hardly move.-Longfellow.