EXERCISE 128. §§ 231, 232. (1.) When is the an Adverb? Make five sentences by way of illustration. (2.) What Number is the Pronoun you? When is the Singular thou preferred to you? (3.) Make three sentences in which thou is more appropriate than you; and three in which you is more appropriate than thou. EXERCISE 129. $233. (1.) Distinguish between the Restrictive and the Conjunctive use of the Relative. (2.) State in which of the following sentences the Relative is used relatively and in which it is used conjunctively: 1. He that goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing. 2. Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly. 3. The policeman brought the delinquent before the magistrate, who imposed upon him a fine of five shillings. 4. The sportsman was the squire's chaplain, who had shot one of the blackbirds that so agreeably entertained us. 5. The morning arrived on which we were to entertain our young landlord. 6. My wife insisted on entertaining them all; for which, by the bye, our family was pinched for three weeks after. 7. This style of remark had a very different effect upon Olivia, who mistook it for humour. 8. 9. No flocks that range the valley free, To slaughter I condemn. Alas! the joys that fortune brings And those who prize the paltry things More trifling still than they. (3.) Make three sentences in which the Relative is used restrictively, and three in which it is used conjunctively. EXERCISE 130. §§ 234, 235. (1.) Parse all the Relative Pronouns occurring in the following sentences: 1. We are the deliverers of the commonwealth, who ease every man of his burden. 2. A mutiny broke out which all the vigour of Cromwell could hardly quell. 3. I did send to you for gold, which you denied me. 4. You have done that you should be sorry for [see § 97]. 5. After this I allotted to each of the family what they were to do. 6. I can't help wondering what you could see in my face, to think me a proper mark for deception. 7. 8. Like whom the fables name of monstrous size, Titanian or earthborn that warred on Jovę. Now in his ashes honour. (2.) Correct the following, and give reasons for your corrections:- 1. I wonder who they have asked to the party. 2. Whom do you think was there? 3. The man whom you thought was a philanthropist turns out to be a scoundrel. 4. Who should you think I met at the concert? 5. Tell me whom you suppose it was. EXERCISE 131. §§ 236-239. (1.) Which Relative Pronoun is most frequently used restrictively? (2.) Make six sentences in which that is preferable to who or which. (3.) When may the Relative without impropriety be omitted? Give three examples. (4.) Correct the following sentences: 1. The remonstrance he had lately received from the Commons and was dispersed throughout the kingdom. 2. A man whose inclinations led him to be corrupt, and had great abilities to manage and defend his corruptions. 3. Here is a person denies all you have said. 4. Omit nothing may give us aid. 5. Market-gardening was no longer the profitable business it had been. 6. There are so many gratifications attend this public sort of obscurity. EXERCISE 132. SS 241-244. (1.) Before what Pronoun does the Conjunction than govern the Objective Case? Make two sentences containing this construction. (2.) Parse the Relative in the following sentences 1. "Nothing could have exceeded my surprise, who had been led to form the most brilliant expectations." 2. "All this time the sharpshooters-which was most trying to the morale of inexperienced soldiers-harassed them with a galling fire." (3.) Enumerate the different uses of the Pronoun it, giving one example of each. EXERCISE 133. § 245. Correct the following sentences :- 1. Each of these personages come from different provinces in the land of pantomime. 2. Every one of this grotesque family were the creatures of national genius. 3. Every one of these polysyllables still keep their ground. 4. Everything that painting, music, and even place furnish, were called in to interest the audience. 5. Each of them went their own way. 6. Let each take care of themselves. 7. There was a row of limes on either side of the drive. 8. How happy it is that neither of us were ill in the Hebrides! 9. Neither of them bear any sign of case at all. 10. Neither of the workmen had their tools with them. 11. When I consider how each of these professions are crowded.... 12. They perceive the lion and the eagle, each of them pursuing their prey, towards the eastern gate of Paradise. EXERCISE 134. S$ 246-250. Correct or justify the following sentences, giving your reasons in each case : 5. The 1. A lampoon or a satire do not carry in them robbery or murder. 2. One of the popes refused to accept an edition of a saint's works, which were presented to him. 3. To heighten the calamity which the want of these useful labours make every literary man feel.... 4. The pronunciation of the two vowels have been nearly the same. use of fraud and perfidy were often subservient to the propagation of the faith. 6. Thomson's 'Seasons' is now comparatively little read. 7. At present the trade is thought to be in a depressed state if less than a million of tons are produced in a year. 8. There sleep many a Homer and Virgil, legitimate heirs of their genius. 9. In such a subject nothing but clearness and simplicity are desirable. 10. A few hours of mutual intercourse dispels the alienation which years of separation may have produced. 11. We have already made such progress, that four or five millions of reduction in our expenditure has taken place. 12. The logical and historical analysis of a language generally in some degree coincides. (Examples from Breen, pp. 16, foll.) EXERCISE 135. (Same continued.) : Correct or justify the following expressions : 1. Either the one or the other are mistaken. 2. Neither Charles nor his brother were qualified to support such a system. 3. This Thyre, with her twelve children, were notorious robbers. 4. Concerning some of them little more than the names are to be learned from literary history. 5. Half a million human beings was crowded into that labyrinth. 6. There was now a large number of waverers. There are always a set of worthy and moderately gifted men. 8. I am by no means satisfied that the jury were right in finding the prisoner guilty. 9. The House of Commons declines to accept the 7. Lords' amendments. 10. There were an immense crowd assembled before the doors. 11. The congregation were exceedingly attentive. 12. The committee were sitting at the Town Hall. EXERCISE 136. (Collective Nouns continued.) (1.) Make six sentences with different Collective Nouns followed by Singular Verbs. (2.) Make six sentences with different Collective Nouns followed by Plural Verbs. N.B.-The same six Collective Nouns may be used in (2) as in (1). EXERCISE 137. §§ 251-258. (1.) What is the principal use of the Subjunctive Mood? Make six sentences with Verbs in the Subjunctive Mood, preceded by six. different hypothetical Conjunctions. (2.) Make three sentences with should as a Principal Verb, and three with should forming a Periphrastic Subjunctive. (1.) EXERCISE 138. (Same continued.) "See thou do it not!" What part of the Verb is do, and why? Quote the Rule. (2.) "Did I tell this . who would believe me?" What Mood is did I tell? Express the same by means of a hypothetical Conjunction. (3.) Make three sentences in which the Subjunctive is used Optatively. (4.) When must the Indicative be used after if, although, &c.? Make three sentences by way of illustration. (5.) What is meant by the sequence of Tenses? Give two examples. EXERCISE 139. § 259. (1.) Make six sentences with the Verbs bid, have, watch, hear, feel, dare, followed by the Infinitive Active without to. (2.) Make six sentences with the Verbs have, see, hear, followed by the Infinitive Passive without to. (3.) “I saw the flowers cut for the bride's bouquet.” Parse cut. (4.) "A soothsayer bids you beware of the Ides of March." What Mood is beware? Is there room for a difference of opinion on this point? If so, show why. EXERCISE 140. SS 260-262. (1.) Make six sentences with an Infinitive Mood as Subject. (2.) Make six sentences with an Infinitive Mood as Object. (3.) Account for the use of the Past Infinitive in the following sentence : "The graceless youth pulled the old gentleman by the beard, and had like to have knocked his brains out."-Spect. No. 359. EXERCISE 141. Take the sentences of Exercise 179, and point out the Infinitives with the Verbs upon which they depend. EXERCISE 142. §§ 263-267., (1.) What is meant by the use of the Infinitive as Complement? (2.) Write out the Complementary Infinitives in the following sentences, with the words upon which they depend. 1. I will do anything to serve you. 2. The Government decided to withdraw the Bill. 3. We resolved to start at once, so as to secure our berths without loss of time. 4. There was at least an attempt to execute the order. 5. In short, to sum up everything in a word, he was an utterly unscrupulous man. 6. Both quick to hear and eager to obey. 7. In spite of all our protestations we were beginning to feel decidedly qualmish. 8. We took care to provide ourselves with all the proper tackling, not forgetting a net to land our prizes. 9. Cease to do evil, learn to do well. 10. Not to make a long story of it, his importunity at last prevailed. |