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. 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 mother. Fanny is the poetess, but Leila is the L. E. L. pleases Jessie most. John is my -brother. Mr. E. is the -preacher ever I listened to. I like Mr. Caird James received a city in Europe. The -severe rebuke. The man in Britain. 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, Fill up spaces with Cardinal Numbers. I promise to give you me in return plums, if you will give apples. There are days in In February? the week. How many days are in a year? How many days are in January? March? can find out each. 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; Adjective-noun you see. 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." Now if I'd used the pronoun first, And said you you would come, I trust, You never would refuse. Then if I wished you all away, I'd say, " "Go you," and none would stay. Thus I would pronouns use. None, some, and many, this, or that, Are little pronouns too. Then his, or hers; and yours, or mine; |