1. What is a NOUN, and what are the examples given? 2. Into what general
classes are nouns divided? 3. What is a proper noun? 4. What is a common
noun? 5. What particular classes are included among common nouns? 6. What
is a collective noun? 7. What is an abstract noun? 8. What is a verbal or
participial noun? 9. What modifications have nouns? 10. What are _Persons_,
in grammar? 11. How many persons are there, and what are they called? 12.
What is the first person? 13. What is the second person? 14. What is the
third person? 15. What are _Numbers_, in grammar? 16. How many numbers are
there, and what are they called? 17. What is the singular number? 18. What
is the plural number? 19. How is the plural number of nouns regularly
formed? 20. How is the regular plural formed without increase of syllables?
21. How is the regular plural formed when the word gains a syllable? LESSON
VI--NOUNS.
1. What are _Genders_, in grammar? 2. How many genders are there, and what
are they called? 3. What is the masculine gender? 4. What is the feminine
gender? 5. What is the neuter gender? 6. What nouns, then, are masculine?
what, feminine? and what, neuter? 7. What inflection of English nouns
regularly changes their gender? 8. On what are the different genders
founded, and to what parts of speech do they belong? 9. When the noun is
such as may be applied to either sex, how is the gender usually determined?
10. What principle of universal grammar determines the gender when both
sexes are taken together? 11. What is said of the gender of nouns of
multitude? 12. Under what circumstances is it common to disregard the
distinction of sex? 13. In how many ways are the sexes distinguished in
grammar? 14. When the gender is figurative, how is it indicated? 15. What
are _Cases_, in grammar? 16. How many cases are there, and what are they
called? 17. What is the nominative case? 18. What is the subject of a verb?
19. What is the possessive case? 20. How is the possessive case of nouns
formed? 21. What is the objective case? 22. What is the object of a verb,
participle, or preposition? 23. What two cases of nouns are alike in form,
and how are they distinguished? 24. What is the declension of a noun? 25.
How do you decline the nouns, _friend, man, fox_, and _fly?_
LESSON VII--PARSING.
1. What is required of the pupil in the THIRD PRAXIS? 2. How many
definitions are here to be given for each part of speech? 3. How is the
following example to b
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