3. What is voice in verbs?

4. Define active voice; passive voice.

5. What is a regular verb?

6. What is an irregular verb?

7. What is an auxiliary verb?

COMPOSITION EXERCISES.

a.-Composition from Outlines.

Write a composition on "My School Days," by stating some of the following facts:

1. When you began to go to school.
2. What schools you have attended.
3. The names of all your teachers.

4. What you have studied.

5. What your favorite studies are.
6. In what branches you excel.

7. Some incident of your school-life.

b.-Composition from Outlines.

From the following outlines write a composition on

Outlines.

MY NATIVE TOWN.

1. SITUATION: In what state, part of the state, and in
what county; near what body of water, city or
large town.

2. GENERAL DESCRIPTION: Size, pursuits of the people,
trade, railroads, steamers, mills or manufactories.
3. SCENERY: Mention any lake, river, mountain, or other
interesting object of natural scenery.

c.-Abstract from Memory.

FIVE PEAS IN ONE POD.-[Adapted from Hans Andersen.] Once there were five peas growing in one pod. The peas were green, the pod was green, the vine was green, the leaves were green, and they thought all the world was green. The warm sun shone on

the vine-the summer rain watered it. The shell grew larger, and

the peas grew bigger and bigger.

"Are we to lie here cooped up forever?" asked one.

"I am tired of it," said another.

"I fear we shall become hard," said a third.

"I want to see what there is outside," said a fourth; while the fifth, a very little pea, cried because he could not get out.

At length the vine turned yellow, the pod turned yellow, and the peas turned yellow.

"All the world is turning yellow," said the peas, with one voice.

Then there came an earthquake, the pod burst open with a crack, and all the five peas rolled out into the yellow sunshine. A little boy clutched them, and said they were fine peas for his pea-shooter. He put the biggest one into his gun, and shot it out.

"Catch me if you can," said the big pea.

"I shall fly straight into the sun," said the next one.

"I shall travel farthest," said the third pea.

"Let me alone," said the fourth.

"What is to be will be," said the little pea, as he shot up and lodged in an empty flower-pot in the window of a room where lay a poor sick girl.

Pretty soon the little pea sprouted, and began to grow up into a beautiful vine.

"Dear mother, I think I shall get well," said the little girl one day; “for my pea is growing famously.”

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'God grant it," said the mother; and she took a stick and tied a string to it, so that the green vine might have something to cling to.

After many days there stood a beautiful pink pea-blossom smiling in the warm sunshine. The little girl kissed it, and said, "Now I am sure I am going to get well."

SECTION V.

SYNTAX.

Syntax is that division of grammar which treats of the relations

Parsing consists in stating the class, subdivision, and modifications of the words in a sentence.

The rules of construction are statements of the general principles governing the relations of words in sentences.

I. PARSING.

In parsing the different parts of speech the method indicated in the following tables may be followed:

Noun.....

Pronoun...

SUBDIVISION-proper, common, or abstract.

NUMBER-singular or plural. (Number in proper rouns may be omitted.)

CASE―nominative, possessive, or objective (as denoted by form or use).

SUBDIVISION-personal, relative, or interrogative.

PERSON-(in personal pronouns; in relative pronouns of the 1st or 2d person only).

NUMBER-singular or plural.

GENDER-(in personal pronouns of the 3d person singular only).

CASE nominative, possessive, or objective.

SUBDIVISION-limiting (pronominal) or qualifying.

Adjective... COMPARISON-positive, comparative, or superlative.

Verb........

OFFICE-attributive or complementary.

CONJUGATION-regular or irregular.

SUBDIVISION-transitive or intransitive.

VOICE-active or passive.

MOOD-indicative, potential, etc.

TENSE-present, past, etc.

PERSON-first, second, or third.

NUMBER-singular or plural.

SUBDIVISION—simple or conjunctive.

Adverb......{ COMPARISON-(if comparative or superlative).

Prepositions....words connected.
Conjunctions...words or propositions connected.

II. RULES OF CONSTRUCTION.

Rule I. The subject of a verb is in the nominative case.

Rule II-A verb agrees with its subject in person and

number.

Rule III.-Adjectives and participles modify nouns or

pronouns.

Rule IV. A noun modifying another noun signifying a different thing is in the possessive case.

Rule V.-A noun or pronoun used to explain another noun or pronoun is put by apposition in the same case.

Rule VI. The object of a transitive verb is in the objective case.

Rule VII-A noun or pronoun used as the complement of an intransitive or a passive verb is in the nominative

case.

Rule VIII.—An adverb modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb.

Rule IX. A pronoun agrees in person, gender, and number with its antecedent or the word that it represents.

Rule X.-1. A preposition joins a noun or pronoun to some other word.

2. A noun or pronoun depending on a preposition is in the objective case.

Rule XI. Conjunctions connect words, phrases, or propositions.

Rule XII.-1. A noun or pronoun whose case depends on no other word is put in the nominative case.

2. The interjection has no graminatical relation to the other parts of the sentence.

THE SUBJECT.

Rule I.-The subject of a verb is in the nominative case: as

1. Water consists of two gases.

2. He is the man who I think wrote the letter.

Model for Parsing.

water...is a common noun, of the singular number and nominative case, subject of the verb "consists," according to Rule I. he........is a personal pronoun, of the third person, singular number,