EXERCISES. PART I. EXERCISES IN PARSING. CHAP. I. EXERCISES IN PARSING, AS IT RESPECTS ETYMO LOGY ALONE. SECT. I. Etymological Parsing Table. WHAT part of speech? 1. An article. What kind? Why? 2. A substantive. Common or proper? What Gender? Number? Case? Why? 3. An adjective. What degree of comparison? To what does it belong? Why an adjective? 4. A pronoun. What kind? Person? Gender? Num ber? Case? Why? 5. A verb. What kind? Mood? Tense? Number? Person? Why? If a participle, Why? Active or passive? 6. An adverb. Why is it an adverb ? 7. A preposition. Why a preposition? 8. A conjunction. Why? 9. An interjection. Why? B Hope is a common substantive of the third person, in the singular number, and the nominative case. [decline the substantive.] Animates is a regular verb active, indicative mood, present tense, third person singular. [Repeat the present tense, the imperfect tense, and the perfect participle; and sometimes conjugate the verb entirely.] Us is a personal pronoun, first person plural, and in the objective case. [Decline the pronoun.] "A peaceful mind is virtue's reward." A is the indefinite article. Peaceful is an adjective. [Repeat the degrees of comparison.] Mind is a common substantive, of the third person, in the singular number, and the nominative case. [Decline the sabstantive.] Is is an irregular verb neuter, indicative mood, present tense, and the third person singular. [Repeat the present tense, the imperfect tense, and the participle; and occasionally conjugate the verb entirely] Virtue's is a common substantive, of the third person, in the singular number, and the possessive case. [Decline the substantive.] Reward is a common substantive, of the third person, in the sin gular number, and the nominative case. A bush A tree An abbess An owl SECT. III. Article and Substantive. A flower An apple An orange A hood The scholars' duty The vices Temperance An entertainment The sun A volume The king's prerogative The continent A declivity The Thames The shadows A vacancy The constitution The laws Beauty A consumption An idea A whim Nothing SECT. IV. Article, Adjective, and Substantive. A good heart. A mutual agreement. A useless drone. The careless ostrich. The crowning harvest. An incomprehensible subject. A controverted point. The woodbine's fragrance: The sweetest incense, The sensitive plant. I am sincere. A resolution wise, noble, A cheerful, good old man. SECT. V.. Pronoun and Verb, &c. Thou art industrious. Know yourselves. I can forgive. them.. He might surpass Thou mightst have improved. The accident had happened He had resigned himself. Their fears will detect them. You shall submit. Let us improve ourselves. We have been rewarded. She had been admired. Virtue will be rewarded. The person will have been executed, when the par don arrives. |