hew, heir, actor, enchanter,
hunter, prince, traitor, lion, arbiter, tutor, songster, abbot, master,
uncle, widower, son, landgrave.
3. Write the possessive case singular, of the following nouns: table, leaf,
boy, torch, park, porch, portico, lynx, calf, sheep, wolf, echo, folly,
cavern, father-in-law, court-martial, precipice, countess, lordship.
4. Write the possessive case plural, of the following nouns: priest, tutor,
scholar, mountain, city, courtier, judge, citizen, woman, servant, writer,
grandmother.
5. Write the possessive case, both singular and plural, of the following
nouns: body, fancy, lady, attorney, negro, nuncio, life, brother, deer,
child, wife, goose, beau, envoy, distaff, hero, thief, wretch.
EXERCISE III.--ADJECTIVES.
1. Annex a suitable noun to each of the following adjectives, without
repeating any word: good, great, tall, wise, strong, dark, dangerous,
dismal, drowsy, twenty, true, difficult, pale, livid, ripe, delicious,
stormy, rainy, convenient, heavy, disastrous, terrible, necessary.
Thus--good _manners_, &c.
2. Place a suitable adjective before each of the following nouns, without
repeating any word: man, son, merchant, work, fence, fear, poverty,
picture, prince, delay, suspense, devices, follies, actions. Thus--_wise_
man, &c.
3. Write the forms in which the following adjectives are compared by
inflection, or change of form: black, bright, short, white, old, high, wet,
big, few, lovely, dry, fat, good, bad, little, much, many, far, true, just,
vast.
4. Write the forms in which the following adjectives are compared, using
the adverbs of increase: delightful, comfortable, agreeable, pleasant,
fortunate, valuable, wretched, vivid, timid, poignant, excellent, sincere,
honest, correct.
5. Write the forms in which the following adjectives are compared, using
the comparative adverbs of inferiority or diminution: objectionable,
formidable, forcible, comely, pleasing, obvious, censurable, prudent,
imprudent, imperfect, pleasant, unpleasant.
EXERCISE IV.--PRONOUNS.
1. Write the nominative plural of the following pronouns: I, thou, he, she,
it, who, which, what, that, as.
2. Write the objective singular of the following pronouns: I, thou, he,
she, it, who, which, what, that, as.
3. Write the following words in their customary and proper forms: he's,
her's, it's, our's, your's, their's, who's, myself, hisself, theirselves.
4. Write together in declension the followi
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