mology treat?--Of what does Syntax treat?--On
what is based the true principle of classification?--How do you
ascertain the part of speech to which a word belongs?--What is meant by
its _manner_ of meaning?--Name the ten parts of speech.--Which of these
are considered the most important?--By what sign may a noun be
distinguished?--How many kinds of nouns are there?--What belong to
nouns?--What is gender?--How many genders have nouns?--What is
person?--How many persons have nouns?--What is number?--How many numbers
have nouns?--What is case?--How many cases have nouns?--Does case
consist in the _inflections_ of a noun?--How many kinds of verbs are
there?--By what sign may a verb be known?--What belong to verbs?--What
is synthesis?--What is analysis?--What is parsing?--Repeat the order of
parsing the noun.--Repeat the order of parsing the verb.--What rule do
you apply in parsing a noun in the possessive case?--What rule, in
parsing a noun in the nominative case?--What rule applies in parsing a
verb?--What is meant by government?--Explain rules 3, 4, and 12.--By
what rule are the nominative and objective cases of nouns known?--By
what sign can you distinguish a transitive from an intransitive
verb?--Do transitive verbs ever express a _moral_ action?--Are
intransitive and neuter verbs ever used as transitive?--Give some
examples of transitive verbs with _personal_ and _verbal_ objects.--What
rule do you apply in parsing a noun in the objective case?--Explain rule
20.--In parsing a verb agreeing with a noun of multitude conveying
_plurality_ of idea, what rule do you apply?
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QUESTIONS ON THE NOTES.
Whether the learner be required to answer the following questions, or
not, is, of course, left _discretionary_ with the teacher. The author
takes the liberty to suggest the expediency of _not_, generally,
enforcing such a requisition, _until the pupil goes through the book a
second time._
Name some participial nouns.--What are abstract nouns?--What is the
distinction between abstract nouns and adjectives?--What are natural
nouns?--Artificial nouns?--What is the distinction between _material_
and _immaterial_ nouns?--Are nouns ever of the masculine and feminine
gender?--Give examples.--When are nouns, naturally neuter, converted
into the masculine or feminine gender?--Give examples.--Speak some nouns
that are always in the singular number.--Some that are always
plural.--Speak some th
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