SELECTIONS FROM QUESTIONS SET AT THE PUPIL-TEACHER AND SCHOLARSHIP EXAMINATIONS.

The figures following some of the Questions refer to the page in Meiklejohn's Grammar.

PUPIL-TEACHERS.—FIRST YEAR.

Requirements.—Parsing and analysis of simple sentences, with knowledge of the ordinary terminations of English words. Writing from memory the substance of a passage of simple prose, read with ordinary quickness.

1.

SET A.

"Toll for the brave!

Brave Kempenfelt is gone.
His last sea-fight is fought;
His work of glory done."

Analyse these lines, and parse the words in italics.

2. Explain the use of the adjective brave in the first line, and give similar instances. (10.)

3. Write out the past indefinite tense of each of the verbs, toll, go, do, fight. (46.)

1.

SET B.

"Cowards die many times before their death,

The valiant only taste of death but once."-Shakespeare.

Analyse these lines, and parse them.

2. Point out any English terminations in them; and give instances of words with a similar ending. (117.)

3. What is meant by mood, and how many moods are there? Write out the imperative mood of the verb to die.

(38.)

SET C.

1. Parse and analyse the following :

"And now a gallant tomb they raise,
With costly sculptures decked;
And marbles storied with his praise
Poor Gelert's bones protect."

2. Distinguish between an inflexion and a suffix, illustrating your answer from the lines above. (100.)

3. Explain the apostrophe in Gelert's. Write down the possessive case plural number of woman, ox, mouse, child, and son-in-law. (20.) 4. When a singular noun ends in an s sound, how is the possessive sign affected? Give examples. (20.)

1.

SET D.

"Here Ouse, slow winding through a level plain

Of spacious meads, with cattle sprinkled o'er,
Conducts the eye along his sinuous course
Delighted."-Cowper.

Analyse the above, parsing the words in italics.

2. Mention verbs ending in le, like sprinkle.

(118.)

3. Give examples of adjectives ending in ish and en, and explain the significance of those terminations. (116.)

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SET E.

Having reached the house,

I found its rescued inmate safely lodged,
And in serene possession of himself

Beside a fire."

Analyse these lines, and parse the words printed in italics.

2. What are the different meanings of the English termination en when added to a noun, an adjective, and a verb? Give instances. (116-118.)

3. How would you parse a noun fully? Explain each term you use.

"But now

To the wide world's astonishment, appeared
A glorious opening, the unlooked-for dawn
That promised everlasting joy to France.”

Analyse these lines, and parse the words printed in italics.

2. State any English terminations of adjectives which mean belonging to, likeness, direction, and negation, and give instances of words in which they occur. (116-118.)

3. What is meant by regular, irregular, auxiliary, defective, transitive, and intransitive verbs? Give examples.

1. Parse this sentence

SET G.

"He needs strong arms who swims against the tide."

2. Say how many sentences there are in this verse, and what is the subject and predicate of each

"Sweet bird! thy bower is ever green,

Thy sky is ever clear;

Thou hast no sorrow in thy song,

No winter in thy year.'

3. Explain what is meant by a participle, and give examples. (40.) 4. Show the meaning of the final syllable in each of the following words, and give other examples of words of the same formation: oxen, golden, darken, bounden, duckling, streamlet, readable, singer, peaceful, faithless. (116-118.)

SET H.

"I now gave over any more thoughts of the ship, or of anything out of her, except what might drive on shore from her wreck, as indeed divers pieces of her afterwards did; but those things were of small use

2. Define the adverb and the preposition, and illustrate the distinction by examples from the above sentence.

3. Give the plural forms of the following pronouns: mine, me, thine, she, him, my, herself, whatever.

1.

SET I.

"Bounded the fiery steed in air,

The rider sat erect and fair,

Then like a bolt from steel cross-bow

Forth launched, along the plain they go.'

Analyse this passage, and parse the words in italics.

2. What is case? How do you know the nominative, possessive, and objective cases? (19.)

3. Point out the affixes, with their meaning, in the following words: scholar, goodness, friendship, maiden, speaker, lambkin. (116-118.)

SET K.

1. Give instances (1) of nouns which have no singular, and (2) of nouns which have no plural.

2. When is the plural suffix s pronounced like z? (16.)

3. Parse as fully as you can the words in italics in the following lines :

"See the dew-drops how they kiss

Every little flower that is,
Hanging on their velvet heads
Like a string of crystal beads."

4. Analyse the above.

SET L.

1. Which consonants are called flats, and which are called sharps? (6.)

2. State the distinction between strong and weak verbs; and give the past tense and passive participles of the following verbs: to creep, peep, teach, reach, flay, pay, slay, read, lead, tread. (43-45.)

3. Give the comparative and superlative of the adjectives: evil, little, fore, old, sad, bad, happy, gay. (33.)

4. Parse the following :

"Neither a borrower nor a lender be,

For loan oft loses both itself and friend."

PUPIL-TEACHERS.-SECOND YEAR.

Parsing and analysis of sentences, with knowledge

of the chief Latin prefixes and terminations.

Requirements.

passage of poetry.

Paraphrase of a short

She, good cateress,

Means her provision only to the good,

That live according to her sober laws,

And holy dictate of spare temperance."-Comus.

Analyse the above, parsing the words in italics.

2. What Latin prefixes and terminations do you see in it? (119121.)

3. Paraphrase the passage. ("She" refers to "Nature.") (176.) 4. How is the prefix in (meaning not) modified in composition? Give instances. (108.)

SET B.

"In short, you will find that in the higher and better class of works of fiction and imagination, you possess all you require to strike your grappling-irons into the souls of the people, and to chain them willing followers to the car of civilisation."

1. Analyse the above passage.

2. Parse the words in italics.

3. Show wherein prepositions and conjunctions are like and wherein they are unlike. (58.)

4. When is a noun said to be in the nominative, possessive, and objective cases respectively? (19.)

SET C.

1. Analyse the following from the words "then burst his mighty heart," and parse the words in italics :

"For when the noble Cæsar saw him stab,

Ingratitude, more strong than traitors' arms,

Quite vanquished him: then burst his mighty heart,

And in his mantle muffling up his face,

Even at the base of Pompey's statua,

Which all the while ran blood, great Cæsar fell."—Julius Cæsar.

2. Point out and explain the force of the adjective suffixes in the following::

"At which time would I, being but a moonish youth, grieve, be effeminate, changeable, proud, fantastical, apish, shallow, inconstant, full of tears, full of smiles."—Shakespeare. (123.)

3. Paraphrase the following:

"Music the fiercest grief can charm,
And fate's severest rage disarm;
Music can soften pain to ease,

And make despair and madness please;
Our joys below it can improve,

And antedate the bliss above." (176.)

SET D.

1.

"Far up the lengthening lake were spied
Four darkening specks upon the tide,
That, slow enlarging on the view,
Four manned and masted barges grew,
And, bearing downwards from Glengyle,
Steered full upon the opening isle."

Turn this passage into prose. (176.)

2. Analyse the above passage, and parse the words in italics. 3. What is the meaning of ad, ex, and ob? Give words in which they occur. How and when are they sometimes changed in composition? (107, 108.)

1.

SET E.

"Immortal glories in my mind revive,
And in my soul a thousand passions strive,
When Rome's exalted beauties I descry,

Magnificent in piles of ruin lie."—Addison.

Analyse the above, parsing the words in italics.

2. Point out any Latin prefixes in the above, and give their meanings; and instance other words in which they occur. (107, 108.)