4. What cannot a word or syllable be sounded without? A Vowel.
5. How many parts of Speech are there? Nine.
6. What are they called? Article, Noun, Adjective, Pronoun, Verb, Adverb, Conjunction, Preposition, and Interjection.
7. What does Grammar teach us? To read, write, and speak, correctly.
8. How many Articles are there?
Three-a, an, and the. 9. What kind of an Article is a or an? Indefinite. Why? It means no particular thing.
10. What is the called? Definite. Why? Because it means something spoken of before.
11. What is a Noun ? The name of any thing. 12. How many kind of Nouns are there? mon and Proper.
13. Give me an example of both?
14. What have nouns?
C. City; P. York.
Two Numbers, Three Persons,
Three Genders, and Three Cases.
15. Distinguish the Numbers. Plural, more than one.
16. Name the Genders. Masculine, Male, as he; Feminine, Female, as she; Neuter, neither male nor female, as, it. 17. What Gender is Boy? Masculine. Girl? Feminine. 18. Is a Ball Masculine or Feminine Gender? Neither; it is Neuter. Why? Because it hath not life.
19. How many Cases have Nouns ? 20. What are they called? Nominative, Possessive, and Objective.
21. How may we know a Verb? By its telling us of something being done.
22. How many kind of Verbs are there?
Passive, and Neuter.
23. What belong to Verbs?
24. How many Numbers and Persons? Two Numbers, and Three Persons, the same as Nouns.
25. How many Moods, and what are their names? Five; Indicative, Imperative, Potential, Subjunctive, and Infinitive.
26. How many Tenses, and name them? Six; Present, Imperfect, Perfect, Pluperfect, and First and Second Fu
27. What is an Adjective known by? Its telling what kind of noun or thing.
28. How many degrees of comparison have Adjectives ? Three.
29. Name them.-Positive, Comparative and Superlative. 30. Compare the Adjective, Short. Positive, Short ; Comparative, Shorter; Superlative, Shortest, &c. &c.
This specimen of the use of these Lessons may be deemed sufficient for children of so tender an age as are admitted into Infant Schools;-but the nursery Teacher may, on a similar method, carry out her enquiries to any reasonable extent. At the same time, the Compilers would give this salutary caution-much is left undone, by attempting to do too much.
The Earth upon which we, at present, all dwell,
If asked, Sir, this much I about it can tell-
In shape, its near round as a Marble or Ball,
And because it is so-we the Globe do it call.
This Globe is composed, Sir, of water and land;
It has Oceans and Seas, Vales and Mountains so grand;
It has Deserts and Rocks, leafy Dales and bleak Hills,
With Gulfs, Islands, Bays, Rivers, Streams & small Rills.
It has likewise Peninsulas, Isthmuses, Straits,
With Capes and Promontories, Continents, States,
Cities, Kingdoms, and Nations, all strange in their kind,
With Volcanoes that burn-dreary Caves, too, we find.
Into Quarters the Globe we are wont to divide-
To live in Great Britain, in Europe, 's our pride;
For Europe, though least, is now greatest in fame–
Next America, Africa, Asia, we name.
Then America, Africa, Asia, 'tis plain
With Europe-are quarters our Earth doth contain ;
One Sun and One Moon give the light to the whole,
The Lord made them all, and does them control.
In forests, deserts, hills, and plains,
Where feet have never trod,
There, still in mighty power, he reigns,
An ever-present God.
The Torrid Zone is very hot,
And there the finest fruits are got;
There too, the largest beasts are found,
That creep or walk upon the ground.
The people are of blackish hue,
They weakly are, oft lazy too:
In Winter they have rain throughout;
In Summer they have constant drought.
The Frigid Zones are very cold,
And men can scarcely live we're told:
The snow, for most part of the year
Does lie upon the ground, we hear.
The people few and dwarfish are :
They have no corn, 'twill not grow there.
Their Summer's short-their winter's long,
Their animals hardy are and strong.
The Temperate Zones do lie between
The other two, as may be seen
By looking at a map or chart-
You'll find them in the proper part.
In cold and heat they're not severe,
And seasons four, complete the year:
The people healthy are, and fair,
None else we can with them compare.
THE BOUNDARIES OF EUROPE.
Europe is bounded on the East,
By Asia, and the deep Black Sea;
On the West, the Atlantic Ocean,
Reaching to America ;
On the North the Frozen Ocean,
Where all is cold-as cold can be ;
On the South by Africa
And the Mediterranean sea.
London is the Capital, the Capital, the Capital,
London is the Capital, the Capital of England.
Edinburgh is the Capital, the Capital, the Capital,
Edinburgh is the Capital, the Capital of Scotland.
Dublin is the Capital, the Capital, the Capital,
Dublin is the Capital, the Capital of Ireland.
Paris is the Capital, the Capital, the Capital,
Paris is the Capital, the Capital of France.
Madrid is the Capital, the Capital, the Capital,
Madrid is the Capital, the Capital of Spain.
Lisbon is the Capital, the Capital, the Capital,
Lisbon is the Capital, the Capital of Portugal.
Brussels is the Capital, the Capital, the Capital,
Brussels is the Capital, the Capital of Belgium.
Amsterdam is the Capital, the Capital, the Capital,
Amsterdam is the Capital, the Capital of Holland.
Hanover is the Capital, the Capital, the Capital,
Hanover is the Capital, the Capital of Hanover.
Berlin is the Capital, the Capital, the Capital,
Berlin is the Capital, the Capital of Prussia.
Copenhagen is the Capital, the Capital, the Capital,
Copenhagen is the Capital, the Capital of Denmark.
Christiana is the Capital, the Capital, the Capital,
Christiana is the Capital, the Capital of Norway.
Stockholm is the Capital, the Capital, the Capital,
Stockholm is the Capital, the Capital of Sweden.
Petersburgh is the Capital, the Capital, the Capital,
Petersburgh is the Capital, the Capital of Russia.
Warsaw is the Capital, the Capital, the Capital,
Warsaw is the Capital, the Capital of Poland.
Dresden is the Capital, the Capital, the Capital,
Dresden is the Capital, the Capital of Saxony.
Prague is the Capital, the Capital, the Capital,
Prague is the Capital, the Capital, of Bohemia.
Stutgard is the Capital, the Capital, the Capital,
Stutgard is the Capital, the Capital of Wirtemberg.
Berne is the Capital, the Capital, the Capital,
Berne is the Capital, the Capital of Switzerland.
Munich is the Capital, the Capital, the Capital,
Munich is the Capital, the Capital of Bavaria.
Vienna is the Capital, the Capital, the Capital,
Vienna is the Capital, the Capital of Austria
Constantinople is the Capital, the Capital, the Capital,
Constantinople is the Capital, the Capital of Turkey.
Naples is the Capital, the Capital, the Capital,
Naples is the Capital, the Capital of Naples.
Rome is the Capital, the Capital, the Capital,
Rome is the Capital, the Capital of Popedom.
Florence is the Capital, the Capital, the Capital,
Florence is the Capital, the Capital of Tuscany.
Turin is the Capital, the Capital, the Capital,
Turin is the Capital, the Capital of Sardinia.
THE BOUNDARIES OF ENGLAND.
England is bounded on the East
By the German Ocean wide;
On the West, St. George's Channel
And the Irish Sea's rough tide.
England's bounded on the North
By Scotland, where the people dance;
On the South-the English Channel
And a Country called France.
THE BOUNDARIES OF MIDDLESEX.
Middlesex is bounded on the East
By Essex and the River Lea ;
On the West by Buckinghamshire,
And the River Colne we see.
On the North by Hertfordshire,
Where Oats and Wheat and Barley grow;
On the South we Surrey find,
With the Thames that Ebb and Flow.
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