This plan is nice when words are short, But then when long, you'll hear they won't 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, Our Tom is generous, John still more, At least more generous than before. Some adjectives will not compare Thus when a story's true, you know, Compare tidy-lively-pretty-deadly-stately. Insert, in the following spaces, adjectives in the super lative degree: I love my 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. 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, 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? days in In February? Learn this, and then you We've thirty days in cold November, One month has twenty-eight, my dear, ORDINAL NUMBERS. When numbers thus point out their order, The number may be first or seventh, ADJECTIVE-NOUNS. Nouns sometimes change to adjectives- Silver's a thing—then 'tis a noun; THE PRONOUN. A Pronoun is a word used instead of a Noun. How troublesome, indeed, 'twould be Or rather 'stead of us. Now hear how strange it would appear "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." 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; |