lesson of _bad English_, with which the Eleventh Chapter concludes.]

CHAPTER XIII.--FOR WRITING.

EXERCISES IN ETYMOLOGY.

[When the pupil has become familiar with the different parts of speech, and
their classes and modifications, and has been sufficiently exercised in
etymological parsing and correcting, he should write out the following
exercises; for speech and writing afford us different modes of testing the
proficiency of students, and exercises in both are necessary to a complete
course of English Grammar.]

EXERCISE I.--ARTICLES.

1. Prefix the definite article to each of the following nouns: path, paths;
loss, losses; name, names; page, pages; want, wants; doubt, doubts; votary,
votaries.

2. Prefix the indefinite article to each of the following nouns: age,
error, idea, omen, urn, arch, bird, cage, dream, empire, farm, grain,
horse, idol, jay, king, lady, man, novice, opinion, pony, quail, raven,
sample, trade, uncle, vessel, window, youth, zone, whirlwind, union, onion,
unit, eagle, house, honour, hour, herald, habitation, hospital, harper,
harpoon, ewer, eye, humour.

3. Insert the definite article rightly in the following phrases: George
Second--fair appearance--part first--reasons most obvious--good man--wide
circle--man of honour--man of world--old books--common people--same
person--smaller piece--rich and poor--first and last--all time--great
excess--nine muses--how rich reward--so small number--all ancient
writers--in nature of things--much better course.

4. Insert the indefinite article rightly in each of the following phrases:
new name--very quick motion--other sheep--such power--what instance--great
weight--such worthy cause--to great difference--high honour--humble
station--universal law--what strange event--so deep interest--as firm
hope--so great wit--humorous story--such person--few dollars--little
reflection.

EXERCISE II.--NOUNS.

1. Write the plurals of the following nouns: town, country, case, pin,
needle, harp, pen, sex, rush, arch, marsh, monarch, blemish, distich,
princess, gas, bias, stigma, wo, grotto, folio, punctilio, ally, duty, toy,
money, entry, valley, volley, half, dwarf, strife, knife, roof, muff,
staff, chief, sheaf, mouse, penny, ox, foot, erratum, axis, thesis,
criterion, bolus, rebus, son-in-law, pailful, man-servant, fellow-citizen.

2. Write the feminines corresponding to the following nouns: earl, friar,
stag, lord, duke, marquis, hero, executor, nep