(c) Either John or I was in fault. And all the air a solemn stillness holds. EXERCISE 14. Point out the superfluous words in the following: 1. They both of them married soon after. EXERCISE 15. 'An old trite proverb let me quote- Questions to be Answered. 1. What are the nominatives to the verbs let and is respectively? 2. In what cases are proverb and coat? What two cases of nouns are alike in form ? 3. Is the sentence in the inverted or in the natural order? Transpose it. 4. In what moods are quote and cut? If in the infinitive, tell by what governed; if in any other mood, tell their nominatives. 5 What rules of government are used in the passage? Is any one of these rules used oftener than once? 6. Is let always used in the sense which it has in this passage? If not, give an example in which it is used in a different sense. EXERCISE 16. In the following passage there are Three verbs in the imperative mood. Write them down in four columns separately. 'O, answer me: Let me not burst in ignorance! but tell Why thy canoniz'd bones, hearsed in death, Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws, To cast thee up again ?' Shakspeare. EXERCISE 17. Correct the following by making two words change places in each sentence: It is well known all over England. He travelled all over the country. The daughter is a young beautiful woman. He has not much of either pleasure or instruction EXERCISE 18. Which of the two forms proposed in each of the followconsider the correct one? and why? ing sentences do you · (a) Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in general, we are wishing every period of it at an end. The minor longs to be of age, then to be a man of business, then to make up an estate, then to arrive at honours, then to retire.'-Addison. (c) 'What numbers live to the age of fifty or sixty years! yet, if estimated by their merit, are not worth the price of a chick the moment it is hatched.'-Shenstone. (d) What is beauty? Not the show Of shapely limbs and features. No. That have their dated hours To breathe their momentary sweets, then go. That outshines the fairest skin.'-Sir A. Hunt. EXERCISE 20. How do you distinguish the past tense from the past or passive participle of regular verbs? What further difference is there between them when the verb is irregular? To what does every participle relate? Write down in a column the past participles occurring in the following passage, and put opposite to each the word to which it relates. 'Fetters, though made of gold, Express base thraldom; and all delicates When not our own, are bitter; quilts fill'd high EXERCISE 21. What do you understand by nouns in apposition? What other part of speech may be in apposition with a noun? Write out the words in apposition in the following passage: 'Misshapen time, copesmate of ugly night; Base watch of woes, sin's pack-horse, virtue's snare: EXERCISE 22. Correct the following sentences : 1. They have the same feelings with us. 5. He was no sooner up but he departed 8. I am in hopes of a letter. 9. There was little more besides the name. 11. The consent determined in your favour. EXERCISE 23. Supply appropriate words in the following blanks : 1. Envy no man's but improve thy own. 2. Since you are not sure of an — lose not a 3. Industry is the 4. Sincerity and truth 5. It is wiser to a of every the foundation of all virtues. 6. Wish not so much to live 7. The acquisition pations. In and but make knowledge is one of the most espouse it. EXERCISE 25. farmer, on --: No. An wanted if he landlord that be most obliged to give him permission cut down what would purpose. The landlord Well then, sir, will his rent, told a house, and the give a gate, then? Yes. than EXERCISE 26. source diseases. As a lamp by a superabundance of oil, a fire our infirmities, and the fountain - by excess so is the natural heat body destroyed diet. NOTE. For examples and exercises in syntactical parsing, see Companion to nglish Grammar. PROSODY. PROSODY is that part of grammar which treats of accent, quantity, emphasis, pause, intonation or tone, and metre or the laws of versification. ON ACCENT. Accent is a particular stress of the voice which custom requires to be laid on a certain syllable in every word consisting of more than one syllable, in order that it may be better heard than the rest, and distinguished from them. Thus, in the word resume, the stress of the voice must be on the letter u, and therefore the second syllable sume is said to be accented, and the first syllable re unaccented. The accented syllables are marked with a straight line, and the unaccented with a small curve. Every word of two or more syllables has one accented syllable; and in long words, for the sake of euphony or distinctness, we frequently give a secondary accent to another syllable besides that which takes the principal accent. The more important accent is called the 'primary,' and is usually marked thus, and the less important is called the 'secondary,' and is marked thus ; as, incor`porátion, tes'timónial. These two accents are sometimes called the. major and the minor accent; they are also distinguished by the terms 'acute' and 'grave.' The acute is marked thus, and the grave thus `. In poetry, words of one syllable, upon which the sense requires a stress to be laid, are also considered as accented. EXAMPLE. His head was sílvěr'd o'er with áge, N |