error the light of thy truth, to the intent that they may return into the way of riteousness ; Grante unto all them that are admitted into the felloship of Christ's religion, that they may eschew those thinges that are contrairy to their professhion, and follo all such things as are agreable to the same, thru our Lord Jesus Christ.

The American Poets are Inglish in everry thing but their senery. They have retaned all the best caracteristics of Inglish litterature,'fredom of thought, daring enurgy, manly feling, and pathos never degennerating into sicly sentimentallity. The memury of ther recent strugle for independance has made manny of them hostile to the polittical power of England, but none inimical to its litterary pre-eminnence. They kno that they cannot hope to rivel the fame of Shakspeare or Milton, and they have, therfore, made the fame of theese poets part of their own; regarding them, as indede they are, the common propurty of all who speke the Inglish langwage.

PART II.

EXERCISES IN ETYMOLOGY.

WHAT is the second part of grammar?

Of

what does etymology treat? How many sorts of Name the parts of speech.

words are there?

§ 1. ARTICLE.

What is an article?

Which are the articles?

When does a become an? What form of the

article a is used before a sounded h?

or an called? Why is it so called?

the definite article?

What is a

Which is

Why is it called definite? When a noun has no article in what sense is it to be taken?

2. Correct the following errors:—An house, a inch, a owl, an yard, a urn, an hill, a end, a army, an hero, a hour, a adder, an wolf, an hole, an heart, a honest man, a honour, a uncle, an useful horse, an ewe, many an one, a unskilful workman, an humourous story, a historical account, an horn, an bed, a adder, a honour, an horse, an house, an pen, a ox, a eel, a ant, a eye, a uninterrupted affair, an unit.

3. When is a used before the vowel u and when an ?

4. Which article is used before singular nouns ? 5. Before what nouns is the used?

6. When a noun denotes a whole class of animals or things, has it an article before it or not? Give an example.

7. What is the meaning of the general expression "The horse is a noble animal." Does it mean one horse or more?

§ 2. SUBSTANTives.

1. What is a substantive? How many kinds of substantives are there? Which are proper substantives? Which are common substantives? What have substantives belonging to them? Of what person are substantives when spoken of? Of what person are substantives when spoken to?

2. Point out the nouns in the following sentences:-The sun shines, buy me an orange. My horse is dead. Where is John?

When will you,

go to France? Which is the house? Queen Victoria reigns. The sea is green.

Love your

neighbour. God's noblest work is man. Temperance preserves health. Religion produces happiness. London stands on the Thames. Excellent writing. A great multitude. Industry is the road to wealth.

3. Are the following nouns proper or commor.?

Horse, man, George, stag, paper, bottle, pen, England, church, town, June, Europe, country, apple, Jane, Ireland, prince, America, window, queen, Charlotte, market, brother, Joseph, Wednesday, Mount Vesuvius, Neptune.

4. What is gender? How many genders are there? What does the masculine gender denote ? What the feminine? What nouns are of the common gender? What are neuter? Are inanimate things ever spoken of as masculine or feminine? Give an example. How are the sexes distinguished?

5. Of what gender is each of the following nouns? - Abbot, bachelor, actress, maid, bride, steer, house, duchess, hart, hero, table, countess, niece, friar, nun, parent, we, nephew, widow, wizard, hind, emperor, marchioness, child, viscount, animal, stag, sultana, executrix, baron, virtue, heroine, eagle, earl, deaconess, garden,

mouse.

6. What is number? How many numbers have nouns? What does the singular express ?

What the plural? a plural number?

bers?

Have all nouns a singular and Are any used in both numplural generally formed?

How is the

How do nouns form their plural when the singu lar ends in x, ch soft, sh, ss, or s? How do nouns in for fe form their plural? How those ending in ff? When the singular ends in y with a consonant before it, how is the plural formed? 7. Distinguish the number of the following nouns:- Glass, garden, conquests, woods, Thomas, arches, loaves, attorneys, wharfs, difficulty, union, fifes, success, pence, ox, woman, stuff, history, meekness, dependencies.

8. Write or spell the plural of the following nouns:-Sea, toy, hat, loaf, wish, sex, kiss, inch, woman, sky, bounty, duty, echo, knife, wife, story, study, church, glory, potato, booby, sheaf, difficulty, roof, tooth, dwarf, mouse, monarch, folio, portico, ox, chimney, a sheep, journey, negro, a vale, enemy, snuff, attorney, handkerchief, a deer, arcanum, cherub, child, penny, alley, proof, die, lily, manifesto, phenomenon.

9. How many cases have English substantives? Mention them. How is the nominative case distinguished? How the possessive? How is the possessive case generally formed? Is the apostrophic s added in the possessive plural when the nominative plural ends in s? Is the apostrophic s