LESSON THIRTEENTH.

[Fowler's Common School Grammar, § 28.]

NUMERALS express number.

CARDINALS define how many: one, two, &c. ORDINALS define which: first, second, &c.

TEACHER'S QUESTIONS.-On "three men."-What is three? Why an adjective? Does it describe or define men? What kind of adjective? Why? Cardinal or Ordinal? Why? ANS.-It tells how many.

1. Which of these are numerals: three men, great, five, seventh, over, second. Write num. for numeral, c. for cardinal, o. for ordinal.

three, a. num. c.

five,

a. num. c.

seventh, a. num. o.

recond, a. num. e.

2. Which of these are numerals: eight, very, second, hundred, under, one?

3. Write the numerals to tell how many there are in your

class, and which in or

der you are.

4. Write three nouns,

names of things in the picture, and the numerals telling how many of each you see. 5. Put a numeral and a descriptive adjective with these boys, girl, hoop, branches, ball. 6. Compare each of the adjectives you wrote for 5.

7. What numeral will de

fine the hands seen on page 9? The eyes?

8. Write two names of objects on page 8 to which the numeral three applies.

9. Write the ordinal for eight, two, twenty.

10. Write the cardinal for fiftieth, first, second, thirteenth. 11. Write the cardinal and ordinal for the year, the month, and the day of the week.

12. Describe ten, black, hand, Charles, first, two.

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PRONOMINAL ADJECTIVES.

LESSON FOURTEENTH.

[Fowler's Common School Grammar, § 18, IV.]

DEMONSTRATIVES define specifically.

They are this, that, these, and those.

INDEFINITES define generally.

They are some, one, none, all, any, such, other, another.

DISTRIBUTIVES define objects to be taken singly. They are each, every, either, neither.

RECIPROCALS define as mutually related.

They are each other, one another.

When demonstratives, indefinites, distributives, or reciprocals define a noun, they are called pronominal adjectives.

TEACHER'S QUESTIONS.-On "some houses"-What is some? Why an adjective? Does it describe or define hous s? What kind of adjec tive? ANS. An indefinite pronominal adjective. Q. Why? ANS.It points out indefinitely. Q. Repeat the indefinites.

1. Which are pronominal adjectives of these: some houses, each house, every man? Write dem. for demonstrative, ind. for indefinite, dis. for distributive, rec. for reciprocal.

some, pr. a. ind.; each, pr. a. dis.

2. Write and describe each of the following words: such good boys, these four

men, every two birds.

3. Write two nouns,
names of objects in the
picture, and a demon-
strative with each.
4. Write two distributives
with names of objects
in the picture.

5. Write a demonstrative,
a superlative, and noun,
to describe something

in the picture.

6. Describe these: all those creatures, that greedy bird, those brightest feathers.

7. Write a demonstrative, a comparative, and noun, to describe something in the picture.

8. Write and describe these: either animal, one happy bird.

LESSON FIFTEENTH.

[Fowler's Common School Grammar, §§ 32-34.]

AN or A is an indefinite article: it marks one object, but not which one. AN is used before a vowel sound, A before a consonant sound. THE is a definite article: it points out some

definite object.

TEACHER'S QUESTIONS.-What is an? Why? ANS.-It marks one object, but not which one.

1. Write and describe the following: a good man, the bad boy.

a, ind, art.

good, a. p.

man, n. c. m. s.

the, def. art.

bad, a. p.

boy,

n. c. m. 5.

2. Describe by an article, adjective, and noun, the figure in the first picture on page 5.

3. Describe by an article, adjective, and noun, each of the figures in the second picture on page 5.

4. Describe by the

numeral five,
three adjec-
tives and a
noun, some-
thing in the
picture at the
right.

5. Write as many

nouns as you

can, names of
objects in the
picture at the
right.

6. Write an arti

cle and adjec-
tive with each
of the nouns
in the answer

to question 5.

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MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS.

8. Describe New York by the definite article, three superlatives, and a noun.

9. Describe your school-room by the indefinite article, three adjectives, and a noun.

10. Write and describe the following: the wisest man, the greatest city, a large room.

11. Describe the persons in the picture on page 8, by a numeral, an adjective, and noun.

12. Write and describe the following: child, a, wife, noisy, you, the, niece, an, them, king, brightest.

13. Write and describe the following: better, more, five, happy, seventh, hopeful, most virtuous, a, the, you, pretty.

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LESSON SIXTEENTH.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS.

[The pupil should now be made to read and describe, without questions, his nouns and adjectives, both descriptive, numeral, and pronominal, and his articles. The proper letters, fully describing each word, should be written after each. Compare page 7. EXAMPLES.-I. Wise is an adjective, because it describes a noun; of the positive degree, because it describes simply-positive, wise; comparative, wiser; superlative, wisest. II. Three is an adjective, because it defines a noun; a numeral, because it denotes number; a cardinal, because it tells how many. III. That is an adjective, because it defines a noun; a demonstrative pronominal adjective, because it defines specifically. IV. An is an indefinite article, because it marks one object, but not which one.

1. Which of these are adjectives: three bright boys, those

five eggs?

2. Describe these: baby's two little fingers.

3. Write three superlatives describing New York.

4. Write the feminine of boy, gentleman, lion, husband.

5. Write three superlatives describing George Washington.

6. Write three adjectives describing the school-room.

7. Compare brave, temperate, much.

8. Write three adjectives describing the boy on page 9.

9. Write three names of objects in the picture on page 15, and numerals telling how many of each you see. 10. Which are nouns of these: finger, hair, over, chin, desk, is, bad?

11. Compare foolish, good, bad, hopeful.

12. Write the plural feminine of these: boy, lord, master. 13. Write the plural masculine of these: woman, wife, aunt, belle.

14. Write the ordinal for seven, two, five, one.

15. Write three superlatives describing London.

16. Write three adjectives describing the dog on page 11. 17. Write three neuter names of things you like.

18. Write adjectives describing three things you like. 19. Write three nouns of the common gender.

20. Write three proper nouns, not names of persons.

21. Write and describe these: the good boy, a better man, six little Indians.

22. Write two distributives with names of objects in the picture on page 8.

23. What person have the nouns and pronouns in this: Nathan said unto David, Thou art the man?

24. Which of these are singular possessives: boy's noise, girls' talk, wife's, lions'?

25. Write the plural possessive of the feminine of these: boy, husband, lord, brother, uncle, priest, lion.

26. Write a demonstrative, a superlative, and a noun to describe persons in the second picture on page 5.

27. Put a numeral and descriptive with three nouns suggested by the picture on page 14.

28. Write the singular and plural possessives of wife, man, ox, king, fly.

29. Write three common nouns masculine which may be applied to persons in the second picture on page 5.

20. Write and describe a man, noisy, niece, seventh, prettiest, such, any, every, the greatest

man.

31. Write and

describe

two mon-
keys, that
mischiev-

ous mon

key, that
painted
monkey,
painters'
paint, the

painter's

brushes,
the old

mimic.