ng pronouns, according to the
agreement of each two: I myself, thou thyself, he himself, she herself it
itself.

5. Rewrite the following sentences, and make them good English: "Nor is the
criminal binding any thing: but was, his self, being bound."--_Wrights
Gram._, p. 193. "The writer surely did not mean, that the work was
preparing its self."--_Ib._ "_May_, or _can_, in its self, denotes
possibility."--_Ib._, p. 216. "Consequently those in connection with the
remaining pronouns respectively, should be written,--he, _his self_;--she,
_her self_;--ye or you, _your selves_; they, _their selves_."--_Ib._, p.
154. "Lest their beacons be lost to the view, and their selves wrecked on
the shoals of destruction."--_Ib._, p. 155. "In the regal style, as
generally in the second person, the singular noun is added to the plural
pronoun, _ourself_."--_Churchill's Gram._, p. 78. "Each has it's peculiar
advantages."--_Ib._, p. 283. "Who his ownself bare our sins in his own body
on the tree."--_The Friend_, iv, 302. "It is difficult to look inwardly on
oneself."--_Journal of N. Y. Lit. Convention_. p. 287.

EXERCISE V.--VERBS.

1. Write the four principal parts of each of the following verbs: slip,
thrill, caress, force, release, crop, try, die, obey, delay, destroy, deny,
buy, come, do, feed, lie, say, huzza, pretend, deliver, arrest.

2. Write the following preterits, each in its appropriate form: exprest,
stript, dropt, jumpt, prest, topt, whipt, linkt, propt, fixt, crost, stept,
distrest, gusht, confest, snapt, skipt, kist, discust, tackt.

3. Write the following verbs in the indicative mood, present tense, second
person singular: move, strive, please, reach, confess, fix, deny, survive,
know, go, outdo, close, lose, pursue, defend, surpass, conquer, deliver,
enlighten, protect, polish.

4. Write the following verbs in the indicative mood, present tense, third
person singular: leave, seem, search, impeach, fear, redress, comply,
bestow, do, woo, sue, view, allure, rely, beset, release, be, bias, compel,
degrade, efface, garnish, handle, induce.

5. Write the following verbs in the subjunctive mood, present tense, in the
three persons singular: serve, shun, turn, learn, find, wish, throw, dream,
possess, detest, disarm, allow, pretend, expose, alarm, deprive,
transgress.

EXERCISE VI.--VERBS.

1. Write a synopsis of the first person singular of the active verb
_amuse_, conjugated affirmatively.

2. Write a synopsis