Higher Lessons in English Part 80

Imperative (131, 134-137).

Tense.

Present. | Past. | Future. + 131, 134-138, Present Perfect.| 140, 141.

Past Perfect. | Future Perfect. | Number.

Singular. + 131, 134, 135.

Plural. | Person.

First. | Second. + 131, 134, 135.

Third. | Participles.--Cla.s.ses.

Present. | Past. + 131, 134, 136.

Past Perfect. | Infinitives.-- Present. | Present Perfect.| 131, 134, 135.

+Questions on the Verb+.

1. Define the verb and its cla.s.ses.--Lessons 92, 132.

2. Define the modifications of the verb.--Lessons 129, 131.

3. Define the several voices, modes, and tenses.--Lessons 129, 131.

4. Define the participle and its cla.s.ses.--Lesson 131.

5. Define the infinitive.--Lesson 131.

6. Give a synopsis of a regular and of an irregular verb in all the different forms.--Lessons 134, 135, 136, 137.

7. a.n.a.lyze the different mode and tense forms, and give the functions of the different tenses.--Lesson 138.

8. Give and ill.u.s.trate the principles which guide in the use of the mode and tense forms, and of the person and number forms.--Lessons 140, 141, 142.

LESSON 143.

REVIEW QUESTIONS.

_Lesson_ 112.--What are Modifications? Have English words many inflections?

Have they lost any? What is Number? Define the singular and the plural number. How is the plural of nouns regularly formed? In what ways may the plural be formed irregularly? Ill.u.s.trate.

_Lesson_ 113.--Give the plural of some nouns adopted from other languages.

How do compounds form the plural? Ill.u.s.trate the several ways. How do letters, figures, etc. form the plural? Ill.u.s.trate.

_Lesson_ 114.--Give examples of nouns having each two plurals differing in meaning. Some which have the same form in both numbers. Some which have no plural. Some which are always plural. What is said of the number of collective nouns?

_Lesson_ 116.--In what four ways may the number of nouns be determined?

Ill.u.s.trate.

_Lesson_ 117.--What is Gender? Define the different genders. What is the difference between s.e.x and gender? The gender of English nouns follows what? Have English nouns a neuter form? Have all English nouns a masculine and a feminine form? In what three ways may the masculine of nouns be distinguished from the feminine? Ill.u.s.trate. Give the three gender forms of the p.r.o.noun.

_Lesson_ 118.--How is gender in grammar important? When is the p.r.o.noun of the masculine gender used? When is the neuter p.r.o.noun _it_ used? By the aid of what p.r.o.nouns are inanimate things personified? In personification, when is the masculine p.r.o.noun used, and when is the feminine? Ill.u.s.trate. What is the Caution relating to gender?

_Lesson_ 119.--What is Person? Is the person of nouns marked by form?

Define the three persons. When is a noun in the first person? In the second person? What cla.s.ses of words have distinctive person forms? Why is person regarded in grammar? What is Case? Define the three cases. What is the case of a noun used independently? Of an explanatory modifier? Of an objective complement? Of a noun or p.r.o.noun used as attribute complement? Ill.u.s.trate all these.

_Lesson_ 121.--What is Parsing? Ill.u.s.trate the parsing of nouns.

LESSON 144.

REVIEW QUESTIONS.

_Lesson_ 122.--How many case forms have nouns, and what are they? How is the possessive of nouns in the singular formed? Of nouns in the plural?

Ill.u.s.trate. What is the possessive sign? To which word of compound names or of groups of words treated as such is the sign added? Ill.u.s.trate. Instead of the possessive form, what may be used? Ill.u.s.trate.

_Lesson_ 123.--In what case alone can mistakes in the construction of nouns occur? Ill.u.s.trate the Cautions relating to possessive forms.

_Lesson_ 124.--What is Declension? Decline _girl_ and _tooth_. Decline the several personal p.r.o.nouns, the relative and the interrogative. What adjective p.r.o.nouns are declined wholly or in part? Ill.u.s.trate.

_Lesson_ 125.--What words in the language have each three different case forms? What are the nominative, and what the objective, forms of the p.r.o.nouns?

_Lesson_ 127.--What one modification have adjectives? What is Comparison?

Define the three degrees. How are adjectives regularly compared? What are the Rules for Spelling? Ill.u.s.trate them. How are adjectives of more than one syllable generally compared? How are degrees of diminution expressed?

Can all adjectives be compared? Ill.u.s.trate. How are some adverbs compared?

Ill.u.s.trate the irregular comparison of adjectives and adverbs.

_Lesson_ 128.--To how many things does the comparative degree refer? What does it imply? Explain the office of the superlative. What word usually follows the comparative, and what the superlative? Give the Cautions relating to the use of comparatives and superlatives, and ill.u.s.trate them fully.

_Lesson_ 129.--What is Voice? Of what cla.s.s of verbs is it a modification?

Name and define the two voices. When is the one voice used, and when the other? Into what may the pa.s.sive form be resolved? Ill.u.s.trate. What may be mistaken for a verb in the pa.s.sive voice? Ill.u.s.trate.

_Lesson_ 130.--In changing a verb from the active to the pa.s.sive, what does the object complement become? How may an intransitive verb sometimes be made transitive? Ill.u.s.trate.

LESSON 145.

REVIEW QUESTIONS.

_Lesson_ 131.--What is Mode? Define the four modes. What is Tense? Define the six tenses. Define the infinitive. Define the participle. Define the cla.s.ses of participles. What are the number and person of a verb?

_Lesson_ 132.--What is Conjugation? Synopsis? What are auxiliary verbs?

Name them. What are the princ.i.p.al parts of a verb? What are redundant and what are defective verbs?

_Lesson_ 134.--How many inflectional forms may irregular verbs have? How many have regular verbs? What is said of the subjunctive mode? Of _to_ with the infinitive? How is a verb conjugated in the emphatic form?

_Lesson_ 136.--How is a verb conjugated in the progressive form? How is a transitive verb conjugated in the pa.s.sive voice? Give an example of a verb in the progressive form with a pa.s.sive meaning. What does the progressive form denote? Can all verbs be conjugated in this form? Why? Give all the participles of the verbs _choose_, _break_, _drive_, _read_, _lift_.

_Lesson_ 137.--How may a verb be conjugated interrogatively? Negatively?

Ill.u.s.trate. How may a question with negation be expressed in the indicative and potential modes?