CHAPTER V.-EXAMINATION. QUESTIONS ON SYNTAX. Of what does syntax treat? LESSON I.DEFINITIONS. What is the relation of words?—the agreement of words?—the government of words?-the arrangement of words? LESSON II.-THE RULES. How many special rules of syntax are there? What case is employed as the subject of a verb? What agreement is required between words in apposition? How does a pronoun agree with its antecedent? LESSON III.-THE RULES. How does a verb agree with its subject or nominative? How does a verb agree with disjunct nominatives? To what do adverbs relate? LESSON IV.-THE RULES. By what is the possessive case governed? What case do active-transitive verbs govern? What case do prepositions govern? What governs the infinitive mood? What verbs take the infinitive after them without the preposition to? When should the subjunctive mood be employed? LESSON V.-THE RULES. What are the several titles, or subjects, of the twenty-six rules? What says Rule 1st?-Rule 2d?-Rule 3d?-Rule 4th ?-Rule 5th ?-Rule 6th 3-Rule 7th ?-Rule 8th ?-Rule 9th ?-Rule 10th ?-Rule 11th ?-Rule 12th?-Rule 13th ?-Rule 14th?-Rule 15th ?-Rule 16th ?-Rule 17th ?Rule 18th ?-Rule 19th ?-Rule 20th ?-Rule 21st?-Rule 22d?-Rule 23d? -Rule 24th ?-Rule 25th ?-Rule 26th ? LESSON VI.-EXCEPTIONS. What are the general contents of chapters second and third of this code of syntax? What are the nature and purpose of the notes to the rules? How many and what exceptions are there to Rule 1st ?-to Rule 2d ?-to to Rule 13th --to Rule 14th ?--to Rule 15th ?-to Rule 16th ?-to Rule 17th ?-to Rule 18th. [Now explain and correct orally all the false syntax placed under the Rules and Notes; learning for each lesson about thirty examples, and reciting them without recurrence to the Key during the exercise.] LESSON VII.--OBSERVATIONS. What is observed of the placing of Articles?-Nominatives?-Words in Apposition?-Adjectives?-Pronouns ?-Verbs ?--Participles ?-Adverbs?— Conjunctions?--Prepositions?-Interjections?-Possessives?-Objectives! -Same Cases?-Infinitives ? Under how many and what circumstances are nouns put absolute? [Now read all the other observations, so as to be able to refer to them if necessary; and then parse and analyze the examples commencing at page 229.] CHAPTER VI.-FOR WRITING. EXERCISES IN SYNTAX. [When the pupil has been sufficiently exercised in syntactical parsing, and has corrected orally, according to the formules given, all the examples of false syntax designed for oral exercises; he should write out the following exercises, correcting them according to the principles of syntax given in the rules and notes,] EXERCISE I-ARTICLES. Christianity claims an heavenly origin. An useless excellence is a contradiction in terms. Part not with a old friend for an new acquaintance. I found in him a friend, and not mere promiser. The Bible contains the Old and the New Testaments. Believe me, the man is less a fool than a knave. EXERCISE II.-NOUNS. A friend should bear a friends infirmities'. Mens mind's seem to be somewhat variously constituted, His income is a thousand pound a year. I shall be a hundred mile off by that time. The moons disk often appears larger than the sun. Consult Sheridan, Johnson, and Walker's Dictionary. A frugal plenty marks the wise mans board. This mob, for honesty sake, broke open all the prisons. Such was the economy of the wife of the agent of my uncle. Childrens minds may be easily overloaded. EXERCISE III.-ADJECTIVES. A palmistry at which this vermin are very dexterous. American. Vanity has more subjects than any of the passions. Of this victuals he was always very fond. Of all other practical rules this is the most complex. Cloths of a more inferior quality are more salable. True faith, true policy, united ran; This was but love of God, and that of man. EXERCISE IV.-PRONOUNS. Him that presumes much, has much to fear. It is not Lemuel, but God, whom you have offended. So great was the multitude who followed him. He which would advance, should not look backwards. The day when the accident happened, is not recorded. I did not know the precise time when it occurred. Who who beheld the outrage, could remain inactive? I could not believe but what it was a reality. It was the boys, and not the dog, which broke the basin. EXERCISE V.-VERBS. Where was you standing during the transaction? Thou sees how little difference there are. If he have failed, it was not through my neglect. Patience and diligence, like faith, removes mountains. The train of brass artillery and other ordnance, are immense. Art thou the man that camest from Judah? What eye those long, long labyrinths dare explore? |