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Classes I Ob. & 111 A.B.
1. Distinguish between proper and common nouns. How are proper nouns sometimes used as common
nouns and sometimes in the plural?
2. Give two examples of nouns having more than one plural with different meanings. Give the plural
of-bush, fish, stuff, staff, folio, negro, seaman, man-servant,
3. What is the difference in the use of his in
(a) This book is his,
and (b) This is his book.
Give the corresponding forins of all the possessive pronouns.
Class VI. A.B.C. One year at Grammar,
low many parts of speech are there? Name them, and give one example of each.
What is a nonn? What different kinds of nouns are there? Is the room in which you work a noun ?
What part of speech is the word adiective?
Write down in two columns the masculine and feminine of the following :--man, lord, widow, horse,
brüde, tiger, cock-bird, goose, she-goat.
Write down in two columns the singular and plural of-man, mouse, monkey, muss, mercy, sheep,
ozen, brethren, gases, vases.
4. What is an intransitive verh? What are the principal teuses of a verb? Illustrate from the veris. What is the subject in each of the following?
to write.
5. Give the present, past, and past participle of-show, lie, see, break, wear, strike, hold, build.
6. What are the subjects, predicates and objects in the following:-
(a) Do this for me.
(b) The book you gave me pleased me much.
7. Write out the following correctly:-
(a) Those kind of practices never pay.
(b) Neither he nor his brother have finished.
(c) Ench of the boys lost their tempers.
(d) Who is that for?
(e) I haven't only one, and that is so bad I can't hardly use it.
Classes II Ca. & IV A.B.C.
1. What is an abstract noun? What are the abstract nouns most closely connected with the following
words ?—grateful, royal, vicious, king, imperial, judge, poor, warm, ignorant, busy, decide.
(a) Were are you going?
(b) Bring me my hat.
(e) How is it from the earth to the moon?
(d) What a w marks you have given me ? (e) Round goes the world.
6. What is the predicate in each of the following?
(a) The monkey ate the chestnuts.
(b) Time and tide wait for no man.
(e) The way was long.
(d) When are you going to pish your work?
Vide IC.a.
II A. B. 4.
7. Parse the words in italics in-"It is possible to speak about a thing without using a word for it."
Where is this sentence found? What is the meaning of the word thing.
Class VII. A.B. A
mouths of Grammar.
1. How many parts of speech are there? Naine them, and give an example of each.
2. Give the positive, comparative and superlative of-full, fur, first, plentiful, worse, less, numy, happy, What is a noun ? What different kinds of nouns are there? 3. Put the following sentences actively:~-
(a) The bills have all been paid already.
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(b) If the boat had been upset, I should have been drowned.J
Change the next sentence (e) by making it (i) negative, (ii) passive, (iii) interrogative.
(e) I praise you freely.
4. Parse the words in italics in-Did you read that book_to-day? I read this book but not that. The
book that I read was mine. I am sure that I read it all.
5. Give the present, past and past participle of make, break, bake, forsake, write, invite, brite, night, growt
sow, crow, go.
6. How are adverbs compared? What are the adverbs derived from real, particular, good, all, three.
7. Write out the following, underlining the adjectives once and the adverbs twice:--
"Right on our flank the crimson sun went down,
The deep sca rolled around in dark repose,
When like a wild shriek from some captured town
A cry of women rose.”
Analyce-any-simple-sentence in the above.
Classes II C. & V A.B.
1. Define a common noun. How are proper nouns distinguished in writing? Give three examples
compound nouns.
2. Write four pairs of short sentences, illustrating the use of the same word as two different parts &
speech, thus --He is still here (adv.).
The night is very still (adj.).
3. What is a relative pronoun ? Write down as many as you know. What other kinds of pronous
are there?
4. Give the other degrees of comparison of--full, far, first, plentiful, worse, less, many, happy.
5. Put the following sentences actively :-
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(a) The bills have all been paid already,
(6) If the boat had been upset, I should have been drowned.,
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6. What is an abstract noun ? What are the abstract nouns derived from-white, royal, king, high, la
judge?
7. What parts of speech are the words in italics in-Did you read that book to-day? I read this boo
but not that. The book that I read was mine. I am sure that I read it all.
3. Write down the feniuine of-man, boy, lord, maxter, husband, nephew, uncle, ether,
4. Write down the plural of-house, fly, monkey, man, qa, thief, too, mouse.
5. What is an adjective? Write down six adjectives describing different articles in the room in which
you are.
Point out which is noun, adjective, pronoun, verb, adverb, preposition in the following:-
"Far away near a desert island a sailor thought of his home."
ARITHMETIC.
Class I A.B.
1. How can we tell without actual division whether a given number, such as 498960, is divisible by
2, 3, 6 and 11 ?
2. Simplify 11 of 14-48 ÷ (34 ÷ 3) − 3).
3. Reduce to a decimal, and from your work show how to write down 4, 4, &c. as decimals.
Hence find the value of 1714285 of £7. 15. 10-71428571 of £23. 7. 84 + ·0428571 of £77. 18. 11.
4. Find the cube root of 91672844229.
5. At what rate per cent. simple interest will £210. 8, 4 amount to £320. 17. 84 in 7 years
?
6. A tralesman marks his goods at 20 % above the cost price, and sells them at 10% discount; if
he has to pay a tax on bis receipts at 10d. in the £, what is the net gain per cent.? 7. If the prices of two teas differing by 1d. per pound are raised 25 % and 20% respectively they
become equal, what are they?
8. A certain rectangular sheet of paper measures 4ft. 5 in. by 3ft. 4 in.
How many such pieces would be required to cover the walls of a room 15ft. 9 in. long, 12ft. high, and 14ft. 2 in. wide leaving a wainscot 2ft. 6 in high at the bottom, and a cornice 8 in. deep at the top.
9. The true discount on £258, 11. 11 for 18 months is £14. 12. 9; find the rate of simple interest
per annum.
19. A debtor's estate is sufficient to pay his creditors 48 % after allowing 20% of his estate for the Cost of its administration. One creditor, however, waives a claim of £1000 and it is found that the estate will pay 60 %. Find the amount of the estate.