The Grammar of English Grammars eBook

Goold Brown
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 4,149 pages of information about The Grammar of English Grammars.

The Grammar of English Grammars eBook

Goold Brown
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 4,149 pages of information about The Grammar of English Grammars.

1.  What is an ADVERB, and what is the example given? 2.  To what general classes may adverbs be reduced? 3.  What are adverbs of time? 4.  What are adverbs of place? 5.  What are adverbs of degree? 6.  What are adverbs of manner? 1.  What are conjunctive adverbs? 8.  Are all the conjunctive adverbs included in the first four classes? 9.  How may the adverbs of time be subdivided? 10.  How may the adverbs of place be subdivided? 11.  How may the adverbs of degree be subdivided? 12.  How may the adverbs of manner be subdivided? 13.  What modifications have adverbs? 14.  How do we compare well, badly or ill, little, much, far, and forth? 15.  Of what degree is the adverb rather? 16.  What is said of the comparison of adverbs by more and most, less and least?

LESSON XXVII.—­PARSING.

1.  What is required of the pupil in the EIGHTH PRAXIS? 2.  How many definitions are here to be given for each part of speech? 3.  How is the following example parsed?  “When was it that Rome attracted most strongly the admiration of mankind?”

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

LESSON XXVIII.—­CONJUNCTIONS.

1.  What is a CONJUNCTION, and what is the example given? 2.  Have we any connective words besides the conjunctions? 3.  How do relative pronouns differ from other connectives? 4.  How do conjunctive adverbs differ from other connectives? 5.  How do conjunctions differ from other connectives? 6.  How do prepositions differ from other connectives? 7.  How are the conjunctions divided? 8.  What is a copulative conjunction? 9.  What is a disjunctive conjunction? 10.  What are corresponsive conjunctions? 11.  Which are the copulative conjunctions? 12.  Which are the disjunctive conjunctions? 13.  Which are the corresponsive conjunctions?

LESSON XXIX.—­PARSING.

1.  What is required of the pupil in the NINTH PRAXIS? 2.  How many definitions are here to be given for each part of speech? 3.  How is the following example parsed?  “If thou hast done a good deed, boast not of it.”

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

LESSON XXX.—­PREPOSITIONS.

1.  What is a PREPOSITION, and what is the example given? 2.  Are the prepositions divided into classes? 3.  Have prepositions any grammatical modifications? 4.  How are the prepositions arranged in the list? 5.  What are the prepositions beginning with a?—­with b?—­with c?—­with d?—­with e?—­with f?—­with i?—­with m?—­with n?—­with o?—­with p?—­with r?—­with s?—­with t?—­with u?—­with w? 21.  Does this list contain all the words that are ever used in English as prepositions?

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