p. 116.  “Oh that I had wings like a dove!”—­FRIENDS’ BIBLE, and ALGER’S:  Ps., lv, 6.  “Oh Glorious hope!  O Blessed abode!”—­O.  B. Peirce’s Gram., p. 183.  “Alas, Friends, how joyous is your presence.”—­Rev. T. Smith’s Gram., p. 87.  “Oh, blissful days!  Ah me! how soon ye pass!”—­Parker and Fox’s Gram., Part I, p. 16; Part III, p. 29.

   “Oh golden days! oh bright unvalued hours! 
    What bliss (did ye but know that bliss) were yours!”—­Barbauld.

    “Ay me! what perils do eviron
    The man that meddles with cold iron.”—­Hudibras.

CHAPTER XII.—­QUESTIONS.

ORDER OF REHEARSAL, AND METHOD OF EXAMINATION.

PART SECOND, ETYMOLOGY.

[Fist] [The following questions refer almost wholly to the main text of the Etymology of this work, and are such as every student should be able to answer with readiness and accuracy, before he proceeds to any subsequent part of the study or the exercises of English grammar.]

LESSON I.—­PARTS OF SPEECH.

1.  Of what does Etymology treat? 2.  What is meant by the term, “Parts of Speech?” 3.  What are Classes, under the parts of speech? 4.  What are Modifications? 5.  How many and what are the parts of speech? 6.  What is an article? 7.  What is a noun? 8.  What is an adjective? 9.  What is a pronoun? 10.  What is a verb? 11.  What is a participle? 12.  What is an adverb? 13.  What is a conjunction? 14.  What is a preposition? 15.  What is an interjection?

LESSON II.—­PARSING.

1.  What is Parsing? and what relation does it bear to grammar? 2.  What is a Praxis? and what is said of the word? 3.  What is required of the pupil in the FIRST PRAXIS? 4.  How many definitions are here to be given for each part of speech? 5.  How is the following example parsed?  “The patient ox submits to the yoke, and meekly performs the labour required of him.”

[Now parse, in like manner, the three lessons of the First Chapter, or the First Praxis.]

LESSON III.—­ARTICLES.

1.  What is an ARTICLE? 2.  Are an and a different articles, or the same? 3.  When ought an to be used, and what are the examples? 4.  When should a be used, and what are the examples? 5.  What form of the article do the sounds of w and y require? 6.  Can you repeat the alphabet, with an or a before the name of each letter? 7.  Will you name the ten parts of speech, with an or a before each name? 8.  When does a common noun not admit an article? 9.  How is the sense of nouns commonly made indefinitely partitive? 10.  Does the mere being of a thing demand the use of articles? 11.  Can articles ever be used when we mean to speak of a whole species? 12.  But how does an