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This plan is nice when words are short,

But then when long, you'll hear they won't
Allow their ending so.

She's beautifullest of them all

No! no! that would not do at all.

I think you know it now.

More beautiful, most beautiful.

And plentiful, more plentiful,
Most plentiful. Again;

Our Tom is generous, John still more,

At least more generous than before.
Most gen'rous too is Jane.

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Some adjectives will not compare
Although these adjectives are rare,
Yet I will show a few.

Thus when a story's true, you know,
Nothing can make it more so-no,
The story's all quite true.

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Compare tidy-lively-pretty-deadly-stately. Insert, in the following spaces, adjectives in the super

lative degree:

I love my

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poetess, but Leila is the

L. E. L. pleases

-brother. Mr. E. is

Jessie most. John is my

-preacher ever I listened to. I like Mr. Caird

the

James received a

city in Europe. The

-severe rebuke. The

man in Britain.

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NUMBERS AS ADJECTIVES.

Numbers are placed before nouns in the position of an adjective, and in order to distinguish them from other adjectives they are frequently called numeral adjectives. There are two kinds, Cardinal and Ordinal.

CARDINAL NUMBERS.

Here are some apples in a row,

One, two, three, four, five, six, or so—

Take care they do not fall.

The number may a million be,
Still if you count up one, two, three,

All these are cardinal.

Fill up spaces with Cardinal Numbers.

I promise to give you

me in return

plums, if you will give

apples. There are

the week. How many days are in a year?

How many days are in January?

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days in

In February?

Learn this, and then you

We've thirty days in cold November,
Thirty in April, June, September,
The rest have thirty-one.

One month has twenty-eight, my dear,
Or twenty-nine in each leap-year-
'Tis Febru'ry! Well done!

ORDINAL NUMBERS.

When numbers thus point out their order,
And show how one stands to another,
These now are ordinal.

The number may be first or seventh,
Or second, forty-eighth, eleventh,
It matters not at all.

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ADJECTIVE-NOUNS.

Nouns sometimes change to adjectives-
Adjective-noun the word receives-
Thus silver-spoon would be.

Silver's a thing—then 'tis a noun;
But when it shows the kind of spoon-
Adjective-noun you see.

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THE PRONOUN.

A Pronoun is a word used instead of a Noun.

How troublesome, indeed, 'twould be
To use long names instead of we,

Or rather 'stead of us.

Now hear how strange it would appear
When asking you to call in here,
If I were talking thus-

"Will Mary, Fanny, Alison,

And Jessie, Julia, Pinkerton,

And Henrietta too

Will all the seven" (say each one's name) "Come here to see me once again?”Instead of this-" Will you."

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None, some, and many, this, or that,

He, she, it, we, and who, or what,

Are little pronouns too.

Then his, or hers; and yours, or mine;
With others-such as theirs and thine,

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