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say about the relation of a noun to a preposition? 13. Are prepositions ever omitted, and why? 14. How are the nominative and objective cases distinguished? 15. How is the possessive case formed in the plural? 16. Do possessive pronouns take an apostrophe? 17. What is _it's_? 18. How are compound nouns, appositives, etc., treated in the possessive? 19. What is an adjective? 20. What do degrees indicate, and how many are there? 21. How are adjectives compared? 22. When should the long form of comparison be used and when the short? 23. What danger attends the use of _most_? 24. Give two irregular adjectives and compare them. 25. Should the two methods of comparison ever be combined? 26. Why are some adjectives never compared? 27. What is an article? 28. How many articles are there? 29. What kinds of articles are there? 30. When should you use _a_? 31. When should you use _an_? 32. What is a verb? 33. Of what three parts does a simple sentence consist? 34. Name them and describe each. 35. What is the relation of the verb to the subject with regard to person and number? 36. What is voice? 37. How many voices are there, what is each called, and what does it indicate? 38. What is tense? 39. How many tenses are there, and what are they called? 40. What is the rule for tense in subordinate clauses? 41. What is the reason for the rule, and how can accuracy be determined? 42. What happens when the statement in the subordinate clause is of universal application? 43. What is mood? 44. How many moods are there, and what are they called? 45. How is the indicative mood used? 46. How is the subjunctive mood used? 47. How is the imperative mood used? 48. What is the potential mood? 49. What is the exact meaning of (a) _may_, (b) _can_, (c) _must_, (d) _ought_? 50. What is tense? 51. How are _shall_ and _will_ used in direct discourse (a) in simple statements, (b) in questions, (c) in other cases? 52. How are _shall_ and _will_ used in indirect discourse? 53. What are the exceptions in the use of _shall_ and _will_? 54. What is the general use of _should_ and _would_? 55. How are should and would used in subordinate clauses, in indirect discourse? 56. What exceptions are there in the use of _should_ and _would_? 57. Why do we make mistakes in the use of compound tenses? 58. What is the case of the object in participial constructio
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