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18. What decree was issued in the reign of Edward III. which affected our language?

19. State all the particulars with which you are acquainted about Piers Ploughman's Vision.

20. What are the natural stages of our language? and how may they be designated? Also mention the principal names of those who wrote in Anglo-Saxon.

21. State, in as many instances as you can, at what periods the following words have been introduced:-photograph, tobacco, street, alligator, telegraph, tarn, plaid.

22. To what family of languages is English considered to belong? and why? Answer carefully and clearly.

23. From what language are the greatest number of English words derived?

24. What is the earliest source from which Latin words have been introduced into our language?

25. Give a brief historic account of the Scandinavian element in our language, and illustrate by common Scandinavian words. 26. What different eras have been assigned in the history of the English language? and what is the character of each?

27. Show the source from which the following words have been derived, and point out their roots:-extract, amphibious, circumlocution, retrograde, paradox, Cheapside, farewell, cavalier.

28. From what source do we derive priest, cry, quiet, abbot, are, bask, cradle? State as far as you can the several periods of their introduction into the language.

29. Describe the effect of the Norman Conquest upon our language.

30. Our language is sometimes divided into four periods,(1) Old English, (2) Early English, (3) Middle English, and (4) Modern English. Name the writings in (i) or (2) or (3), and comment on any changes which appear in each period.

31. Give a short account of the special influence of NormanFrench upon the vocabulary of the English language.

32. When was the English language brought into Great Britain? Name the four Low-German tribes who are said to have introduced the language.

33. Name as many old Celtic words still in use as you

can.

34. Assign dates to 'Old English,' to 'Early English,' and to 'Middle English ;' and name writers and works in the period called 'Middle English.'

35. What dates would you assign to Early English,' and to 'Modern English'? Name works and writers in the 'Early English' period.

36. Give a brief account of the English language and English writers between 1066 A.D. and 1350 A.D.

37. Enumerate chronologically, as far as you can, the works written in English between the years 450 A.D. and 1250 A.D. 38. Give a list of the Indo-European languages.

39. What is meant by the Scandinavian element in our language? Can you mention any traces of it to be found in the language we speak now?

40. What language was spoken in England before the Norman Conquest? and what changes in the language followed from that event?

41. What classes of words has our language mainly derived from the French? Give examples.

42. Mention any words of Celtic origin that occur in our language, and give the reason why so few words from this source are to be found.

43. From what language are the following words derived: -clout, cradle, mattock, darn, mop, pillow? What historical inference may be drawn from the homely character of these words?

44. Mention any Latin or Greek words that have been introduced into our language in connection with the Christian religion.

EXERCISES FOR PARSING AND ANALYSIS.

N.B.-The following exercises are arranged according to the 'years of apprenticeship' for which they were given. The subjoined will show which questions were given to each

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Questions 1-30 (inclusive) to candidates before 1st May 1878. 31-78 (incl.) to candidates or First Year. 79-128 (incl.) to First Year or Second Year. 129-200 (incl.) to Second Year or Third Year. 201-277 (incl.) to Third Year or Fourth Year. 278-351 (incl.) to Fourth Year or Fifth Year.

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It must be borne in mind that pupil teachers apprenticed after 1st May 1878 have only four years to serve instead of five. But the requirements of candidates since this date are the same as those for the First Year before the same date; and so on with the following years. This is the explanation of the arrangement of the above table.

1. Show what part of speech every word is in the following sentence :-' In India I often had occasion to observe that dogs in a wild state were less brave than the domestic animal.'

2. Parse the following passage:-'A few weeks after Elizabeth's accession, Philip of Spain made her an offer of marriage. She neither accepted nor refused the offer, but politely informed him that she could not answer so important a question till she had consulted her Parliament.'

3. Parse as fully as you are able the following passage :—' If you climb to the top of a church tower, you find that many objects come into sight which cannot be seen from the ground.'

4. Parse the following sentence as fully as you are able:— 'Some writers have discovered ugliness and a want of grace in the giraffe, but I consider him one of the most strikingly beautiful animals in the creation.'

5. Parse the following sentence as fully as you can:'Though Jonas was very diligent, many weeks passed before he had finished the heavy task, by which he hoped to raise himself to the rank of master.'

6. Parse as fully as you are able the following passage:— 'To form the barometer, a glass tube, open at one end, and filled with quicksilver, is plunged with its open end downwards into a bowl containing some of the same fluid.'

7. Parse the following sentence as fully as you can:-
'When chill November's surly blast
Made fields and forests bare,
One evening I wandered forth,
Along the banks of Ayr.'

8. Parse the following sentence:

'The eagle, called the king of birds,
Soars high with crooked beak;

The starling may be taught some words,
The jet-black crow is meek.'

9. Parse the following sentence as fully as you are able :'After these Indians had gazed at us for some time, one of them suddenly jumped out of his boat, swam to the ship, and ran up the side like a cat.'

10. Parse the following sentence: A family of Indians pitched their huts very near us; from one of the islands of our lake we could distinguish from our front windows the thin blue smoke of their wood fires.'

11. Parse the following sentence as fully as you are able :—
'Sweet was the sound when oft at evening's close,
Up yonder hill the village murmur rose.'

12. Parse the following verse as fully as you are able :-
'I sat upon a mountain,
From home far, far away;

Beneath the hills and valleys
And smiling corn-fields lay.'

13. Parse the following sentence:-'Long, long ago, when animals could use their reason, the frogs met together to ask Jupiter for a king.'

14. Parse the following sentence :-'The air which surrounds us, and which is called the atmosphere, extends up from the surface of the earth above two hundred miles.'

15. Parse the following sentence: A merchant in Turkey lost a purse containing two hundred pieces of gold.'

16. Parse the following sentence:-'A man and his wife went out for a walk by the river.'

17. Parse the following sentence:-'The elm is a tree which often grows very large.'

18. Parse the following sentence:-'He upset the carriage by driving over a large stone.'

19. Parse the following sentence :-'Small grievances should be borne without much complaining.'

20. Parse the following sentence:-'The tracks of tigers are easily found, as they go every evening by the same path to the water.'

21. Point out the parts of speech in the following sentence: -The cat ran after the mouse, but it got away.'

22. Point out the parts of speech in the following sentence: -'A straight line is the shortest distance between two points.'

23. Point out the parts of speech in the following lines; and, if you are able, parse the words in the two last of the lines:

'Rome, for empire far renowned,

Tramples on a thousand states;
Soon her pride shall kiss the ground:
Hark! the Goth is at her gates.'

24. Point out the parts of speech in the following lines; and, if you are able, parse the words :

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25. Point out the parts of speech in the two following lines; and, if you can, parse them fully :—

'But I forgot when by thy side

That mortal thou could'st be.'

26. Point out the parts of speech in the two following lines; you can, the second line :

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'Sir Knight, I fear not the least alarm;
No son of Erim will offer me harm.'
"Thou art a most pernicious usurer,
And very infant's prattle of thy pride.'

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