or a commonly limit the sense? 13.  And how does the commonly limit the sense? 14.  Which number does the limit, the singular or the plural? 15.  When is the required before adjectives? 16.  Why is an or a not applicable to plurals? 17.  What is said of an or a before an adjective of number? 18.  When, or how often, should articles be inserted? 19.  What is said of needless articles? 20.  What is the effect of putting one article for the other, and how shall we know which to choose? 21.  How are the two articles distinguished in grammar? 22.  Which is the definite article, and what does it denote? 23.  Which is the indefinite article, and what does it denote? 24.  What modifications have the articles?

LESSON IV.—­PARSING.

1.  What is required of the pupil in the SECOND PRAXIS? 2.  How many definitions are here to be given for each part of speech? 3.  How is the following example parsed?  “The task of a schoolmaster laboriously prompting and urging an indolent class, is worse than his who drives lazy horses along a sandy road.”

[Now parse, in like manner, the three lessons of the Second Chapter, or the Second Praxis; and then, if you please, you may correct orally the five lessons of bad English, with which the Second Chapter concludes.]

LESSON V.—­NOUNS.

1.  What is a NOUN, and what are the examples given? 2.  Into what general classes are nouns divided? 3.  What is a proper noun? 4.  What is a common noun? 5.  What particular classes are included among common nouns? 6.  What is a collective noun? 7.  What is an abstract noun? 8.  What is a verbal or participial noun? 9.  What modifications have nouns? 10.  What are Persons, in grammar? 11.  How many persons are there, and what are they called? 12.  What is the first person? 13.  What is the second person? 14.  What is the third person? 15.  What are Numbers, in grammar? 16.  How many numbers are there, and what are they called? 17.  What is the singular number? 18.  What is the plural number? 19.  How is the plural number of nouns regularly formed? 20.  How is the regular plural formed without increase of syllables? 21.  How is the regular plural formed when the word gains a syllable?  LESSON VI—­NOUNS.

1.  What are Genders, in grammar? 2.  How many genders are there, and what are they called? 3.  What is the masculine gender? 4.  What is the feminine gender? 5.  What is the neuter gender? 6.  What nouns, then, are masculine? what, feminine? and what, neuter? 7.  What inflection of English nouns regularly changes their gender? 8.  On what are the different genders founded, and to what parts of speech do they belong? 9.  When the noun is such as may be applied to either sex, how is the gender usually determined? 10.  What principle of universal grammar determines the gender when both sexes are taken together? 11.  What is said of