. What is _Parsing?_ and what relation does it bear to grammar? 2. What is
a _Praxis?_ and what is said of the word? 3. What is required of the pupil
in the FIRST PRAXIS? 4. How many definitions are here to be given for each
part of speech? 5. How is the following example parsed? "The patient ox
submits to the yoke, and meekly performs the labour required of him."

[Now parse, in like manner, the three lessons of the _First Chapter_, or
the _First Praxis_.]

LESSON III.--ARTICLES.

1. What is an ARTICLE? 2. Are _an_ and _a_ different articles, or the same?
3. When ought _an_ to be used, and what are the examples? 4. When should
_a_ be used, and what are the examples? 5. What form of the article do the
sounds of _w_ and _y_ require? 6. Can you repeat the alphabet, with _an_ or
_a_ before the name of each letter? 7. Will you name the ten parts of
speech, with _an_ or _a_ before each name? 8. When does a common noun not
admit an article? 9. How is the sense of nouns commonly made indefinitely
partitive? 10. Does the mere being of a thing demand the use of articles?
11. Can articles ever be used when we mean to speak of a whole species? 12.
But how does _an_ or _a_ commonly limit the sense? 13. And how does _the_
commonly limit the sense? 14. Which number does _the_ limit, the singular
or the plural? 15. When is _the_ required before adjectives? 16. Why is
_an_ or _a_ not applicable to plurals? 17. What is said of _an_ or _a_
before an adjective of number? 18. When, or how often, should articles be
inserted? 19. What is said of needless articles? 20. What is the effect of
putting one article for the other, and how shall we know which to choose?
21. How are the two articles distinguished in grammar? 22. Which is the
definite article, and what does it denote? 23. Which is the indefinite
article, and what does it denote? 24. What modifications have the articles?

LESSON IV.--PARSING.

1. What is required of the pupil in the SECOND PRAXIS? 2. How many
definitions are here to be given for each part of speech? 3. How is the
following example parsed? "The task of a schoolmaster laboriously prompting
and urging an indolent class, is worse than his who drives lazy horses
along a sandy road."

[Now parse, in like manner, the three lessons of the _Second Chapter_, or
the _Second Praxis_; and then, if you please, you may correct orally the
five lessons of _bad English_, with which the Second Chapter concludes.]

LESSON V.--NOUNS.