Intransitive verb.

The Simple Predicate. Transitive verb and object.
Neuter verb and complement.

Adjective: word, phrase, clause.

Subject Modifiers....Nouns in apposition, with their adjective modifiers.

Predicate Modifiers....Adverbial: words, phrases, clauses.
J Object: words, phrases, clauses.

Connectives......

Simple Sentence.-Prepositions.

Complex Sentence.-Subordinate conjunctions, relative pronouns, and relative adverbs. Compound Sentence. - Co-ordinate conjunc

tions.

SECTION IV.-EXAMINATION QUESTIONS IN LANGUAGE-LESSONS AND GRAMMAR.

Note.-The following sets of questions are given as suggestive models of practical questions to be used in oral or in written examinations:

I. SECOND SCHOOL YEAR.

1. I. Write your own name. II. The name of your teacher. III. The name of your father. IV. The name of the place in which you live.

2. Write five sentences by telling what the following animals do: I. Dogs. II. Cats. III. Horses. IV. Birds. V. Flies.

3. Write five interrogative sentences by asking questions aboutI. Fishes. II. Lions. III. Boys. IV. Girls.

4. Make sentences out of-I. My mother. II. My father. III. My teacher. IV. My home.

5. Write the correct form of these incorrect sentences: I. I seen him do it. II. I done the sum wrong. III. 'Tain't right. IV. Ain't you going? Her and me are going.

II. THIRD SCHOOL YEAR.

1. Write the name of (1) a person; (2) a place; (3) the name of a river; (4) the name of an ocean; (5) the name of the State in which you live.

2. Write five sentences, each composed of only two words—a noun and a verb.

3. Change each of the sentences that you wrote above into an interrogative sentence.

4. Write five exclamatory sentences, and remember to punctuate.

5. Correct the following: I. We done wrong. II. Who seen him? III. Does horses neigh? IV. Was you there? V. Does hens cackle?

6. I. What is a name-word? II. What is an action-word? III. Write a sentence having a quality-word. IV. Write a sentence with two nouns in it. V. Write a sentence with two verbs in it.

III. FOURTH SCHOOL YEAR.

1. "The bees were humming among the flowers, and the birds were singing in the trees and bushes." Point out the namewords in this sentence.

2. Write two sentences, each containing two quality-words, and draw a line under these words.

3. "The boys read well, and the girls sing sweetly." Point out the adverbs in this sentence.

4. "The girls read and write well, but they do not spell well." Point out the action-words, or verbs, in this sentence.

5. "The man, woman, and girl were busy at their lesson." Change the name-words in this sentence so that they may mean more than one.

6. "

boys

fast." Fill the blanks in this sentence.

What do you call the last word?

7. "The boys ran from the house through the garden into the field." Point out the prepositions in this sentence.

8. "The good boy speaks well, and the industrious girls read finely." Point out the adjectives.

9. Give a rule for capitals.

10. Give a rule for periods.

IV. FIFTH SCHOOL YEAR.

1. Compare-1. red; 2. good; 3. bad; 4. pleasant.

2. Write the sentence "Bees are busy" in each of the six tenses of the indicative mood.

3. Give the present tense and past tense-I. of two irregular verbs; II. of two regular verbs.

4. Write two declarative sentences with the following nouns: 1. Crickets; 2. The gun. Change them into interrogative sentences.

5. Write two exclamatory sentences.

6. Write two rules for politeness, and make them simple sen

tences.

7. Write four complex sentences, using in each one of the following words: if, who, when, because.

8. Write two compound sentences. 9. Write three rules for capitals.

10. Write two rules for the period.

V. SIXTH SCHOOL YEAR.

1. What difference is there in the use of the letter s used as a noun-suffix and a verb-suffix?

2. Compare fore, worse, far, most, dead.

3. Punctuate and capitalize—

1. The lamb said to the wolf who are you.

2. Be good said a wise man and you will be happy.

3. I cannot tell a lie said Washington.

4. In the sentence "That life is long which answers life's great end," parse 1. that; 2. is; 3. long; 4. which; 5. end.

5. Synopsis of the verb to study in the indicative mood, third person, singular, passive voice.

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VI. SEVENTH SCHOOL YEAR.

1. Give the rules for the verb having two or more singular subjects connected by and; by or or nor. Examples of each. of the verb when the subject is in the third person, singular? When the subject is thou?

2. What change is made in the root form

3. Define (1) a simple sentence; (2) a complex; (3) a compound sentence; (4) a sentence.

4. Write a simple declarative sentence with "Fire" for the subject; change it, first into an interrogative sentence, next into an exclamatory sentence, and then into an imperative sentence.

Punctuate.

5. What is the grammatical order of parts in a simple declarative sentence?

6. Define the subject of a sentence; the predicate.

7. Write a complex sentence with if; one with who; one with when; one with than.

8. Rule for the punctuation of introductory or inverted adverbial phrases or clauses.

9. Rule for the semicolon in a compound sentence.

10. Rule for quotation-marks.

VII. EIGHTH SCHOOL YEAR.

After the answers are written, let pupils exchange pa pers and correct under the direction of the teacher.

SET I.

1. Write four rules for the use of the comma.

2. Write two rules for the sign of the possessive case. Examples.

3. Rule of syntax for collective nouns. Examples.

4. Give a synopsis of the verb to teach in the indicative and potential moods, third person, singular.

5. Define each of the four kinds of pronouns.

6. Define a simple sentence; subject; predicate; phrase; clause.

7. Give the leading signs of the complex sentence; the compound sentence.

8. Analyze the sentence "He laughs that wins."

9. Correct the sentence "I thought it was her."

10. Change into the plural form—1. axis; 2. chimney; 3. loss; 4. leaf; 5. rest.

SET II.

1. Analyze the sentence "You or I must go."

2. In the sentence "I supposed it to be him," parse it and him.

3. Write five rules of syntax.

4. Write a simple, a complex, and a compound sentence.

5. Write four rules of politeness, and state what kind of a sen

tence each is.

6. Write the correct forms of the following:

1. My dress fits bad.

2. I guess its her.

3. Who did she marry?

4. Whose there? Its me.

7. Change the sentence "Bees are busy" into each of the tenses of the indicative mood.

8. Write from memory, and punctuate, a stanza of at least four lines of poetry.

9. Write four forms of the complimentary closing of a letter. 10. Write a sentence to show the use of the word that as a rela

tive, a conjunction, an adjective, and an adjective pronoun.