s_.

12. Exhibit the extent to which the noun partakes of the character of
the verb, and _vice vers[^a]_. What were the Anglo-Saxon forms of, _I
can call_, _I begin to call_?

13. Investigate the forms, _drench_, _raise_, _use_ (the verb),
_clothe_.

14. _Thou speakest_. What is the peculiarity of the form? _We loven_,
_we love_, account for this.

15. _Thou rannest_ = (_tu cucurristi_). Is this an unexceptionable
form? if not, why?

16. What are the _moods_ in English? What the _tenses_? How far is the
division of verbs into weak and strong tenses natural? Account for the
double forms _swam_ and _swum_. Enumerate the other verbs in the same
class. Explain the forms _taught_, _wrought_, _ought_, _did_, (from
_do_ = _facio_), _did_ (from _do_ = _valeo_), _minded_.

17. Define the term _irregular_, so as to raise the number of irregular
verbs, in English, to more than a hundred. Define the same term, so as
to reduce them to none. Explain the form _could_.

18. What is the construction of _meseems_ and _methinks_? Illustrate
the _future_ power of be. _Werden_ in German means _become_--in what
form does the word appear in English?

19. _To err is human_,--_the rising_ in the North. Explain these
constructions. Account for the second -r in _forlorn_; and for the y in
y_cleped_.

20. Explain the difference between _composite_ and _de-composite_
words, _true_ and _improper compounds_. Analyze the word _nightingale_.

21. How far are adverbs inflected? Distinguish between a _preposition_
and a _conjunction_.

22. Explain the forms _there_, _thence_, _yonder_, and _anon_.

23. What part of speech is _mine_?

24. What is the probable origin of the -d in such preterites as
call-ed.

PART V.

1. Explain the terms _Syntax_, _Ellipsis_, _Pleonasm_, _Zeugma_, _Pros
to semainomenon_, _Apposition_, and _Convertibility_, giving
illustrations of each.

2. What is the government of adjectives?

3. What is the construction in--

a. Rob _me_ the Exchequer.--SHAKSPEARE.
b. Mount _ye_ on horseback.
c. _His_ mother.
d. If the salt have lost _his_ savour.
e. Myself _is_ weak.
f. This is _mine_.

4. What are the concords between the relative and antecedent? How far
is, _whom_ do they say that I am, an exceptionable expression?