Etymological Parsing Table.

WHAT part of speech?

1. An article. What kind? Why?

2. A substantive. Common or proper? What Gender? Number? Case? Why?

3. An adjective. What degree of Comparison To what does it belong? Why an adjective? 4. A pronoun. What kind? Person? Gender? Number? Case Why?

5. A verb. What kind? Mood? Tense? Number? Person? Why? If a participle, Why? Active or passive?

6. An adverb. Why is it an adverb ?
A preposition Why percetical

SECT. II.

Specimen of Etymological Parsing.

Hope animates us.

Hope is a common substantive, of the neuter geader, third person, in the singular number, and the nominative case. (Decline the substantive.) Animates is a regular verb active, indicative mood, present tense, third person singular. (Repeat the present tense, the imperfect tense, and the perfect participle; and sometimes conjugate the verb entirely. Us is a personal pronoun, first person plural, and in the objective case. pronoun.) (Decline the

A peaceful mind is virtue's reward.

A is the indefinite article. jective. (Repeat the degrees of comparison.) Peaceful is an adMind is a common substantive, of the neuter gender, the third person, in the singular number, and the nominative case. live.) Is is an irregular verb neuter, indicative (Decline the subsianmood, present tense, and the third person singu lar. (Repeat the present tense, the imperfect lense, and the participle; and occasionally conju gate the verb entirely) Firtue's is a common substantive, of the third person, in the singular nu nber, and the possessive case

Article and Substantive.

SECT. IV.

Article, Adjective, and Substantive.