of the third person, singular number, neuter gender, and nominative case. 1.  A pronoun is a word used in stead of a noun. 2.  A relative pronoun is a pronoun that represents an antecedent word or phrase, and connects different clauses of a sentence. 3.  The third person is that which denotes the person or thing merely spoken of. 4.  The singular number is that which denotes but one. 5.  The neuter gender is that which denotes things that are neither male nor female. 6.  The nominative case is that form or state of a noun or pronoun, which denotes the subject of a verb.”  In parsing syntactically, he would say thus:  “What is a double relative, including both antecedent and relative, being equivalent to that which.  As antecedent, it is of the third person, singular number, neuter gender, and objective case; being governed by from; according to the rule which says, ’A Noun or a Pronoun made the object of a preposition, is goverved [sic—­KTH] by it in the objective case.’  Because the meaning is—­from what.  As relative, it is of the third person, singular number, neuter gender, and nominative case; being the subject of is recorded; according to the rule which says, ’A Noun or a Pronoun which is the subject of a finite verb, must be in the nominative case.’  Because the meaning is—­what is recorded.”

OBS. 37.—­The word what, when uttered independently as a mark of surprise, or as the prelude to an emphatic question which it does not ask, becomes an interjection; and, as such, is to be parsed merely as other interjections are parsed:  as, “What! came the word of God out from you? or came it unto you only?”—­1 Cor., xiv, 36. “What! know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God?”—­1 Cor., vi, 19.  “But what! is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing?”—­2 Kings, viii, 13. “What! are you so ambitious of a man’s good word, who perhaps in an hour’s time shall curse himself to the pit of hell?”—­Collier’s Antoninus, p. 152.

   “What! up and down, carv’d like an apple-tart?”—­Shakspeare.

    “What! can you lull the winged winds asleep?”—­Campbell.

EXAMPLES FOR PARSING.

PRAXIS V.—­ETYMOLOGICAL.

In the Fifth Praxis, it is required of the pupil—­to distinguish and define the different parts of speech, and the classes and modifications of the ARTICLES, NOUNS, ADJECTIVES, and PRONOUNS.

The definitions to be given in the Fifth Praxis, are two for an article, six for a noun, three for an adjective, six for a pronoun, and one for a verb, a participle, an adverb, a conjunction, a preposition, or an interjection.  Thus:—­

EXAMPLE PARSED.

“Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God?  Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus.”—­Rom., ix, 20.