utler's Poems_.

"Who therefore finds the _artificial'st_ fools
Have not been chang'd _i th'_ cradle, but the schools."--_Ib._, p. 143.

OBS. 18.--Nouns used adjectively are not varied in number to agree with the
nouns to which they relate, but what is singular or plural when used
substantively, is without number when taken as an adjective: as, "One of
the nine _sister_ goddesses."--_Webster's Dict., w. Muse_. "He has money in
a _savings_ bank." The latter mode of expression is uncommon, and the term
_savings-bank_ is sometimes compounded, but the hyphen does not really
affect the nature of the former word. It is doubtful, however, whether a
plural noun can ever properly assume the character of an adjective;
because, if it is not then really the same as the possessive case, it will
always be liable to be thought a false form of that case. What Johnson
wrote "_fullers earth_" and "_fullers thistle_;" Chalmers has "_fullers
earth_" and "_fuller's thistle_;" Webster, "_fuller's-earth_" and
"_fuller's-thistle_;" Ainsworth, "_fuller's earth_" and "_fuller's
thistle_;" Walker has only "_fullers-earth_;" Worcester,
"_fuller's-earth_;" Cobb, "_fullers earth_;" the Treasury of Knowledge,
"_fullers'-earth_." So unsettled is this part of our grammar, that in many
such cases it is difficult cult to say whether we ought to use the
apostrophe, or the hyphen, or both, or neither. To insert neither, unless
we make a close compound, is to use a plural noun adjectively; which form,
I think, is the most objectionable of all. See "_All souls
day_,"--"_All-fools-day_,"--"_All-saints'-day_," &c., in the dictionaries.
These may well be written "_All Souls' Day_" &c.

EXAMPLES FOR PARSING.

PRAXIS IV.--ETYMOLOGICAL.

_In the Fourth Praxis, it is required of the pupil--to distinguish and
define the different parts of speech, and the classes and modifications of
the_ ARTICLES, NOUNS, _and_ ADJECTIVES.

_The definitions to be given in the Fourth Praxis, are two for an article,
six for a noun, three for an adjective, and one for a pronoun, a verb, a
participle, an adverb, a conjunction, a preposition, or an interjection.
Thus_:--

EXAMPLE PARSED.

"The best and most effectual method of teaching grammar, is precisely that
of which the careless are least fond: teach learnedly, rebuking whatsoever
is false, blundering, or unmannerly."--_G. Brown_.

_The_ is the definite article. 1. An article is the word _the, an_, or _a_,
whic