8. What words are conjunctions and nothing but pure conjunctions?

9. What conjunctions have an adverbial character? Give one or two illustrations.

10. What words are conjunctions, and are also used as prepositions? Give instances.

11. Make a list of compound conjunctions, and in each instance write a short sentence introducing each of the conjunctions.

12. Write a sentence containing the conjunction neither; also, write another sentence containing the conjunction whether. 13. Explain why the conjunctions lest, though, if, and others may be called subordinate conjunctions; and write a sentence containing the conjunction lest.

14. Give examples of compound and derived conjunctions. 15. Conjunctions are said to have sprung from other parts of speech. Mention any that have sprung (1) from nouns, (2) from pronouns.

16. Give examples of adverbial conjunctions, with sentences in which they are used.

17. What are disjunctive conjunctions? Give three examples of sentences in which such are used.

18. Assign to their various classes the following conjunctions:-either, neither, likewise, besides, sometimes, furthermore, lastly, anon.

19. Assign each of the following conjunctions to its proper class:-although, if, therefore, when, but.

20. What conjunctions are always followed by the subjunctive mood? Give examples.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS.

1. Is there anything wrong in the following sentence:— 'That is the man whom I heard was ill?' If there is, correct it. 2. What is the difference between adjectives and adverbs? Illustrate your answer by examples.

3. In the sentence, 'IIe slept the whole night,' what is the

nature (transitive or intransitive) of the verb (slept)? and what is the case of the noun (night)? Give your reasons.

4. Give instances of words used both as adverbs and prepositions.

5. Form adverbs from the following adjectives:-hardy, worthy, dry, creditable.

6. Give examples of sentences in which prepositions are used as adverbs.

7. When, where, whence are sometimes called adverbs. Show that they may be more properly called conjunctions. Give examples of their use in illustration of this.

8. Which have the most inflexions in our language, nouns or pronouns? Prove your answer by examples.

9. In what different senses can the word that be used? Write sentences introducing it in each sense.

10. What parts of speech are therefore, wherefore, why? 11. Construct sentences containing respectively

12. 'He was idle, therefore he did not succeed.' State whether you consider 'therefore' in this case as an adverb or a conjunction, and your reasons for so doing.

13. And every one to rest themselves betake.'

'I have heard from my father that is in America.' Are the foregoing sentences inaccurate? and, if so, why?

14. Comment on the word 'than.' State what part of speech it is, and give your reasons; also illustrate what you say by

sentences.

15. Explain the terms pronoun, adverb, and preposition, and give the derivation of each.

16. What English suffixes to nouns have a diminutive force? Illustrate your answer by English words.

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17. Form a sentence or sentences containing the word his used (1) as a pronoun, (2) as an adjective.

18. The word as may be used as three different parts of speech. Form three sentences to illustrate this, pointing out in each case to what part of speech the word as belongs.

19. Correct, if necessary, the following sentences :-' Each man, woman, and child were there.' 'Spring is more preferable than winter.' 'Let you and I never do this.'

20. The word but may be used as three different parts of speech. Illustrate this in three short sentences.

21. Account for the initial a in such words as asleep, awake, abed, etc.

22. Give a list of participles which are in common use as prepositions.

23. Comment on the expressions abed, in two, at large, betimes, to-day.

24. What inflexions have nouns and adjectives? and for what purposes are these inflexions employed? Give examples.

25. Write sentences showing the word that used (1) as a demonstrative pronoun, (2) as a relative pronoun, and (3) as a conjunction.

26. Give instances of adverbs derived from adjectives, and of adjectives derived from nouns.

27. Answer the three following questions:

(a) Charity is a virtue, and he subscribed to many charities.' What kind of a noun is charity, and what kind is charities, in the foregoing sentence?

(b) Westminster Abbey.' Is it better to parse Westminster in this expression as a noun or as an adjective? Give the reason of your answer.

(c) Would you write 'an ewe lamb' or 'a ewe lamb,' 'an hotel' or 'a hotel?' Give your reason in each case.

28. What are verbal nouns and verbal adjectives? Give examples.

29. In some languages many of the relations denoted by prepositions are expressed by cases (of nouns or pronouns).

There is one instance of this in modern English; what is it?

Give example.

30.

'Take thy banner! but, when night
Closes round the ghastly fight,

If the vanquished warrior bow,
Spare him!'

(a) Point out the principal sentences in the above, and show what conjunction joins them together.

(b) There are four sentences in the above; point out the subject in each.

(c) Show why bow,' not 'bows,' is used in the above.

QUESTIONS ON ANALYSIS.

1. When is the subject of a sentence called simple? How may it be enlarged? Give examples.

2. Explain the terms subject, predicate, and show by a sentence or otherwise how the subject and predicate may be enlarged.

3. In what ways may the subject of a sentence be expanded? Illustrate this fully by examples.

4. What are the essential parts of a sentence? and into what separate part can the predicate be divided?

5. Define accurately what is meant by a sentence and by a clause, and illustrate your definitions by examples.

6. Give examples of co-ordinate sentences and of dependent

sentences.

7. State the meanings of substantival, adjectival, and adverbial sentences; and give an example of each.

8. Write out a sentence containing a substantive clause.

9. Write down an example of a complex sentence; explain why it is so called, and analyze it.

10. What is an adverbial sentence? Give examples of the adverbial sentence-(a) relating to time; (b) relating to place; (c) relating to manner.

11. Write a sentence containing an adjectival clause, and another containing an adverbial clause.

12. Write three sentences, one containing a noun clause, a

second containing an adjective clause, and a third containing an adverbial clause.

13. Explain accurately the distinction between a phrase and a sentence, and illustrate your explanation by examples.

14. How are phrases to be distinguished from sentences? Give an example of a participial and of an adverbial phrase. 15. How many kinds of subordinate sentences are there? 16. What is meant by the direct, and what by the indirect, object of a sentence? Give examples.

17. Write a sentence showing a substantive clause following a transitive verb.

SYNTAX.

1. State the rule for the agreement of a relative pronoun with its antecedent.

2. Write down any rule or rules for the agreement of a verb with a collective noun for its nominative.

3. Give examples to show that the relative does not agree with its antecedent in case. What determines the case of the relative?

4. What is meant by a concord in grammar? What are the principal rules relating to concords?

5. In the sentence, 'The sun and moon shine,' show that the conjunction does more than merely couple two nouns.

PARAPHRASING.

1. 'Air and ye elements-the eldest birth
Of Nature's womb, that in quaternion run
Perpetual circle multiform, and mix

And nourish all things; let your ceaseless change

Vary to your great Maker still new praise.'-MILTON.

Give the meaning of the above passage, as far as you can, in your own words, and explain fully the words in it that are of Latin origin.

2. Paraphrase :

'Hard by yon wood, now smiling as in scorn,

Mutt'ring his wayward fancies, he would rove;
Now drooping, woeful, wan, like one forlorn,

Or crazed with care, or crossed in hopeless love.'