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GRAMMAR.

Class I. A.B.

1. What prepositions should be used after the following verbs:-arrive, assent, be desirous, dissent,

impose, be interested, interfere, be obliged?

2. Write down the present, past, and past participle of--cat, fly, forsake, hear, move, shoot, sing, slay,

weave.

3. What do you mean by a sentence, a subordinate sentence, syntax, concord? Give any rules of

syntax relating to pronouns.

4. What is the mood of a verb? Comment on the moods in the following :

(a) Go, bid thy mistress, when my drink is ready, she strike upon the bell.

(b) To know her is to love her.

(c) I would I were a bird

(d) I am in trouble through having been angry.

(e) God bless you.

5. When can the word that be used as a relative? In what other ways can it be used? Give short

sentences in illustration.

6. Explain how there are "nine primary tenses"; give their distinguishing names, and an example

of each from the active voice of the verb to shake.

7. Re-write the following correctly :—

8. Analyse-

(a) Which of your hands are cleanest? Neither are clean at all.

(6) Is it me whom you are waiting for?

(c) You read all those kind of books like I do.

(d) Every one of the boys lost their tempers.

(e) I do not like these sort of questions.

(ƒ) If you know who it is, tell me who to pay.

(g) You take more trouble or at any rate as much as me.

(4) Being a holiday the coolies laid down and did no work.

(a) He spoke so quickly that I could not understand him.

(b)

(c)

"The man who neither reverences nobleness nor loves goodness is hateful." "There's a house a few miles from the city

I frequently linger outside,

'Tis the home of a maid who is pretty,

A maid I would like for my bride."

Classes I. Ca. & II. A.B.

1. What parts of speech are-alike, along, also, alter, alas, aloe, although, aught,

2. What are transitive, intransitive and auxiliary verbs? What are the principal tenses? Illustrate

from the verb to write.

3. Give the present, past and past participle of-show, lie, see, break, wear, strike, hold, build.

4. What is meant by the subject, predicate, and the object of a sentence? Pick out the subjects, pre-

dicates, and objects from-

(a) Do this for me.

(b) Tis an ill wind that blows nobody any good.

(c) The book you gave me pleased me much.

5. Write the following correctly:-

(a) All those kind of practices never pay.

(b) Neither he nor his brother have finished.

(c) Who is that for?

(a) Each of the boys lost their tempers.

(e) I haven't only one, and that is so bad I can't hardly use it.

(f) Some sort of apples are better than other.

6. What do you mean by syntax, sentence, complex sentence, substantival clause?

7. Analyse, or parse the words in italics-

(a) I think it foolish to go.

(b) He is still standing where I left him.

(e) I like singing.

(d) Singing heartily he walked upstairs.

(e) Had he answered politely when asked, he might have escaped all blame.