WRITTEN EXERCISES.

1. Write sentences showing the correct use of the following

2. Write sentences, using adjectives to describe the things named below. Choose such adjectives as will exactly express

What is an adjective? Into what two classes may adjectives be divided?

Name three adjectives that are used to point out things; two adjectives that express a definite number; two that express an indefinite number; two that express an indefinite quantity; two that indicate order of arrangement.

State the difference in meaning between the and an or a. Distinguish between the use of an and a, and illustrate by examples. Name two adjectives that change their form to denote the plural number. Give their plural forms.

What is meant by the comparison of adjectives? What are the

three degrees of comparison called? Define each, and give an example.

How is the comparative formed? Give examples. How is the superlative formed? Give examples.

What is meant by irregular comparison? Illustrate.

Mention two adjectives that are compared by means of suffixes; two by means of adverbs; two that are compared irregularly; and two that are not usually compared.

Give the comparative and superlative forms of few; heavy; amiable; swift; useful; fierce; mighty; witty; gentle; good; bad; late; little; ill; much; many.

XERCISE

EXERCISE II.

Parse the adjectives in the following sentences:

To parse an adjective, tell

1. The kind of adjective.

2. Its degree, if the adjective can be compared.
Its construction.

3.

1. The is a limiting adjective, modifying the noun wind.

2. Cold is a descriptive adjective of the positive degree. It completes the meaning of the verb was, and modifies the noun wind.

I. It is the most beautiful shrub that ever sprang out of the earth.

2. Every good tree bringeth forth good fruit, but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.

3

Such pleasures nerve the arm for strife,

Bring joyous thoughts and golden dreams.

4. This door led into a passage out of which opened four sleeping-rooms.

5. Wide is the gate, and broad is the way.

6. In the middle of the eighteenth century there were four New England colonies. -FISKE.

7. Birds of the polar areas of snow and ice are white, those of the tropics are vari-colored and brilliant-hued.-M. THOMPSON.

8. A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; a beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form: it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine

I found the old angler living in a small cottage containing only one room, but a perfect curiosity in its method and arrangement.

It was on the skirts of the village, on a green bank, a little back from the road, with a small garden in front, stocked with kitchen herbs, and adorned with a few flowers. The whole front of the cottage was overrun with a honeysuckle. top was a ship for a weathercock.

On the

The interior was fitted up in a truly nautical style, the old angler's ideas of comfort and convenience having been acquired on the berth-deck of a man-of-war. A hammock was slung from the ceiling, which, in the daytime, was lashed up so as to take but little room. From the centre of the chamber hung a model of a ship of his own workmanship. Two or three chairs, a table, and a large sea-chest, formed the principal movables. The mantel-piece was decorated with sea-shells; over which hung a quadrant flanked by two woodcuts of most bitter-looking naval commanders. His implements for angling were carefully disposed on nails and hooks about the room. On a shelf was arranged his library, containing a work on angling, much worn, a Bible covered with canvas, an odd volume or two of voyages, a nautical almanac, and a book of songs.

WASHINGTON IRVING.

What is the title of this piece? What is an angler?

What does the first sentence tell? How many rooms were in the cottage? What was a curiosity?

Where was the cottage? What is meant by the skirts of the village? Where did the cottage stand? How far back from the road was it?

What was in front of the cottage? What did the garden contain ? What is an herb? Mention two or three kinds of herbs that are commonly raised in gardens. What else was in the garden? What is the meaning of adorned? What flowers do you think were growing in the garden?

Describe the front of the cottage. What was on the top of it? What is a weathercock?

What does the third paragraph describe? house? What is meant by a nautical style? to fit up his cottage in the style of a seaman?

What is the interior of a
What led the old angler

How was his hammock arranged? What hung from the centre of the chamber? What movable articles of furniture did the room contain? What decorated the mantel-piece? What hung over it? What is a quadrant? What is meant by the quadrant's being flanked by the two woodcuts? What hung on the nails and hooks about the room? Where was the library? Of what books was it composed?

WRITTEN EXERCISES.

I.

Describe in your own words The Old Angler's Cottage.

II.

Write sentences, showing the correct use of the following

Describe some room that you have seen.

were in the room, and how they were arranged. Write a suitable heading for your description.

Tell what things