won. Bravo! that was well done. Fie! a soldier, and afraid! Ah! the cowards. Oh! what beautiful flowers. Heigh-ho! I am tired of

waiting.

Hush! hush! mee-ow! mee-ow!

We smell a rat close by.

Bah! bah! black sheep,

Have you any wool?

Alack! and I must keep the fair!

I'll give thee money for thy mare.
Oh, oh! say you so?

Money makes the mare to go.

Hurrah, hurrah! a single field has turned the chance of war!
Hurrah, hurrah! for Ivry and Henry of Navarre!

Ho! maidens of Vienna! ho! matrons of Lucerne,
Weep, weep for those who never will return.

Learn

91. An Interjection' is a word thrown into a sentence to express some feeling.

Strictly speaking, the Interjection is no Part of Speech.

REVIEW.

Learn again

92. A Noun is a word used as the name of something.

93. A Verb is a word used to tell something to or about a person or thing.

94. A Sentence is the statement of a thought in words. 95. Every Sentence has a Subject and a Predicate.

96. The Predicate is a Verb, or a Verb and other words, used in making the statement.

97. The Subject is the word denoting the person or thing spoken about.

1 From the Latin inter-jectus (p.p. of inter-jicere), from inter, between, and jacere, to throw.

98. The Subject is found by asking Who? or What? before the Predicate.

99. A Declarative Sentence is one that makes a statement or assertion.

100. An Interrogative Sentence is one that asks a question. 101. An Imperative Sentence is one that expresses a command or an entreaty.

102. A Pronoun is a word used instead of a Noun.

103. An Adjective is a word used with a Noun (or a Pronoun) to describe or to limit that which the Noun denotes. 104. Infinitives and Participles are called Verbals, because they are derived from Verbs.

105. An Adverb is a word used to modify a Verb (or a Verbal), an Adjective, another Adverb, or a statement.

106. A Preposition is a word placed before a Noun, or a Pronoun, to show the relation between the person or thing named and what is denoted by some other word in the sentence.

107. A Conjunction is a word used to join a word or group of words to another word or group of words.

108. An Interjection is a word thrown into a sentence to express some feeling.

Exercise 76.

Say what Part of Speech each word printed in italics is.

Farmers till the ground. day. Look in the till.

The miller ground the corn. Stay till SunMary lives in a beautiful place. Place the candle on the table. The people pay taxes. The king taxes the people. The laborer's pay is small. The laborer is worthy of his hire. The farmers hire servants. The weather is fine. The ship can weather the storm. Ring the bell. Mary has a pretty ring. There is a fly on the window. Swallows fly very far. Bob is a fast pony. Bob runs fast. The soldiers gave three cheers. The father cheers his little boy. The boy was little hurt. Who can calm the stormy sea? After the storm comes a calm. The day was calm. No man can still the waves. The waves are still. The waves are still raging. Whiskey is made in a still. children made a snow man. There is snow on the mountain.

The

The

mountain air is keen. The summer sun is warm.

The sun is warm in

There are many companies
Shepherds give water to

in the city. Shepherds water their flocks. their flocks. All the people praise him. All the people give him praise. John tried to better himself. John is better. Shut the door. The door is shut. Iron is common. The ass was grazing on the common. Tom lagged behind. The garden is behind the house. He told me not to walk on. He told me not to walk on the grass. We went up and down. We went up and down the street. William came first; James came after. William caine after me. My brother cannot stay till you come. My brother cannot stay till Sunday.

Exercise 77.

Say what Part of Speech each word is in the following sentences, thus:

I lost my poor little doll.

I never could find where she lay.
The days are cold, the nights are long.
The kitten sleeps upon the hearth.

My little white kitten now wants to go out.
When my mother died I was very young.
Oh, green was the corn as I rode on my way.
The clouds are scudding across the moon.
We were crowded in the cabin.

Up rose old Barbara Frietchie then.
Britannia needs no bulwarks.

No useless coffin enclosed his breast.
Slowly and sadly we laid him down.
Three blind mice, see how they run.

The dew was falling fast, the stars began to blink.

Now see him mounted once again.

Hurrah! hurrah! a single field hath turned the chance of war.

Two robin-redbreasts built their nest

Within a hollow tree.

The mountain and the squirrel

Had a quarrel.

Then we kissed the little maiden

And we spoke in better cheer.

I pray thee put into yonder port,

For I fear a hurricane.

The warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying. Night sank upon the dusky beach and on the purple sea; Such night in England ne'er had been nor e'er again shall be. Dr. Johnson pretended to despise actors and actresses, but he treated Mrs. Siddons with great politeness. She called on him, and his servant could not readily find a chair for her. "You see, Madam," said the doctor, "wherever you go no seats can be got."

A Cambridge student sent to another student to borrow a book. “I never lend my books out," said he, "but if the gentleman chooses to come to my rooms he may use them there." A few days after, the bookowner sent to the other student to borrow a pair of bellows. "I never lend my bellows out," was the answer, "but if the gentleman chooses to come to my rooms he may use them there."

PART II.

CLASSIFICATION AND INFLECTION.

NOUNS.

PROPER NOUNS.

Work again Exercises 1 and 2.

109. A word which is the name of a particular person, animal, place, or thing, is called a Proper' Noun,

A Proper Noun when written or printed should always have a capital letter.

Exercise 78.

Pick out the Proper Nouns.

King Arthur's sword was called Excalibur. Jupiter was the chief god of the Romans. Melbourne is the largest town in Australia. We get gold from California and Victoria. John struck James with a stick. My dog is called Spot, and Mary's cat is called Snowy. The farmer has a horse, Smiler. The ship was named the Thunderer.

The Northern Star

Sailed over the bar,

Bound to the Baltic Sea.

William sailed from Normandy, landed near Hastings, won a battle at Senlac, marched to London, and conquered England. The Duke of Wellington had a famous charger called Copenhagen. Captain John Smith landed at Jamestown, Virginia.

COMMON NOUNS."

Work again Exercises 3, 4, 5, and 6.

110. A word that is the name of each person or thing belonging to a class of persons or things of the same kind is called a Common3 Noun,

1 From the French propre, from the Latin proprius, one's own. A Proper Noun is the own name of a thing.

2 See "Notes for Teachers," p. 320, Note 12.

Common (from the Latin commun-is, shared by several, common) means belonging to more than one.