Select is a verb.

1. A verb is a word which affirms what is said of persons and things. The is the definite article.

1. An article is a word placed before nouns, to limit their meaning. 2. The definite article is the, and is used to denote some particular thing or things.

Safest is a common adjective, of the superlative degree; compared, safe, safer, safest,

1. An adjective is a word which expresses quality or degree, and
is joined to a noun or pronoun to describe it.

2. A common adjective is one which denotes quality or situation.
3. The superlative degree is the greatest or least quality of an
adjective.

Path is a common noun, of the third person, singular number, neuter gender, and objective case.

1. A noun is a word which is either the name of a person, animal, place, thing, or idea.

2. A common noun is a name applied generally to all individuals, places, or things, of the same kind or sort.

3. The third person is that which denotes the person or thing merely spoken of.

4. The singular number denotes but one.

5. The neuter gender is that which denotes things that are neither male nor female.

6. The objective case is that form of a noun or pronoun, which denotes the object of a verb, participle, or preposition.

Though is a conjunction.

1. A conjunction is a word used to connect words or sentences together.

Some is a pronominal adjective, not compared.

1. An adjective is a word which expresses quality or degree, and is joined to a noun or pronoun to describe it.

2. A pronominal adjective is one which may either accompany its noun, or represent it understood.

3. Those adjectives, whose signification does not admit of different degrees, cannot be compared.

Other is a pronominal adjective, representing path understood, in the third person, singular number, neuter gender, and nominative case. [See Obs. 10th, page 30.]

1. An adjective is a word which expresses quality or degree, and is joined to a noun or pronoun to describe it.

2. A pronominal adjective is one which may either accompany its noun, or represent it understood.

3. The third person is that which denotes the person or thing merely spoken of.

4. The singular number denotes but one.

5. The neuter gender is that which denotes things that are neither male nor female.

6. The nominative case is that form of a noun or pronoun which denotes the subject of a verb.

May be is a verb.

1. A verb is a word which affirms what is said of persons and things.

Less is an adverb.

1. An adverb is a word joined to a verb, a participle, an adjective, or another adverb, to define it.

Difficult is a common adjective, compared by means of the adverbs. 1. An adjective is a word which expresses quality or degree, and is joined to a noun or pronoun to describe it.

2. A common adjective is one which denotes quality or situation. 3. Those adjectives which may be varied in sense, but not in form, are compared by means of adverbs.

LESSON I.

No easier or better plan was discovered.

Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

Seek after high and substantial enjoyments.

Chatham was less eloquent, but more practical, than Burke. The noblest and most magnificent character is that of the martyr.

The first shall be last.

LESSON II.

When we find the best of mortal hopes so variable and transitory, we should long the more ardently for those that never fail.

"Save where from yonder ivy-mantled tower,

The moping owl does to the moon complain,
Of such as, wandering near her secret bower,
Molest her ancient, solitary reign."—Gray.

LESSON III.

"A most immortal reputation is acquired by the most brave actions."

Most immortal is incorrect, because "those adjectives whose signification does not admit of different degrees, cannot be compared." Most brave is incorrect, because the regular method of comparison is chiefly applicable to monosyllables."

TO BE CORRECTED AND PASSED.

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While he saw the more good he pursued the worser cause.
The silentest voice is often the most strongest.

This most universal extent of guilt is the worsest of our national calamities.

The downer part of the ship was the leakyest.

The modestest and most holiest of men I ever saw was also the cheerfullest.

Richard Cœur de Lion was the most brave, but his rival Saladin the gentler hero.

OF THE PRONOUN.

A Pronoun is a word used instead of a noun, to repeat the idea: as, The boy is learning his lesson; he is diligent, and therefore he soon learns it.

Obs. 1.—The word for which a pronoun stands, is called its antecedent, because it usually precedes the pronoun.

Obs. 2. The pronouns I and thou, in their different modifications, stand immediately for persons that are, in general, sufficiently known without being named; (/ meaning the speaker, and then the hearer ;) their antecedents are therefore generally understood.

Obs. 3.—The other personal pronouns are sometimes taken in a general or absolute sense, to denote persons or things not previously mentioned: as, "He that hath knowledge, spareth his words."

Obs. 4.—A pronoun with which a question is asked, stands for some person or thing unknown to the speaker; the noun, therefore, cannot occur before it, but may be used after it or instead of it.

Obs. 5.—The personal and the interrogative pronouns often stand in construction as the antecedents to other pronouns: as, "He that arms his intent with virtue is invincible."" Who that has any moral sense dares tell lies ?"

CLASSES.

Pronouns are divided into three classes; personal, relative, and interrogative.

I. A personal pronoun, is one which always represents the same person.

The simple personal pronouns are five: namely, /, of the

What is a PRONOUN ?---Give the example. How are pronouns divided?

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first person; thou, of the second person ; he, she, and it, of the third person.

A compound personal pronoun is formed by adding the word self, in the plural selves, to the simple pronouns : as, himself, themselves.

The compound personal pronouns are also five: namely, myself, of the first person; thyself, of the second person; himself, herself, and itself, of the third person.

II. A relative pronoun is one which represents a noun that precedes it in the same sentence, and connects different clauses of a sentence.

The relative pronouns are who, which, what, and that; and the compounds whoever or whosoever, whichever or whichsoever, whatever or whatsoever.

What is a kind of double relative, and is generally equivalent to that which, or those which; and is to be parsed, first as antecedent, and then as relative.

III. An interrogative pronoun is one with which a question is asked.

The interrogative pronouns are who, which, and what; being the same in form as relatives.

Obs. 1.—Who is usually applied to persons only; which though formerly applied to persons, is now confined to animals and inanimate things; what (as a mere pronoun) is applied to things only: that is applied indifferently to persons, animals, or things.

Obs. 2.—The pronoun what has a two-fold relation, and is often used (by ellipsis of the noun) both as antecedent and relative, being equivalent to that which or the thing which. In this double relation, what represents two cases at the same time: as, "He is ashamed of what he has done;" that is, of that [thing] which he has done. It is usually of the singular number, though sometimes plural : as, “I must turn to the faults, or what appear such to me."—Byron.

Obs. 3. What is sometimes used both as an adjective and a relative at the same time, and is placed before the noun which it represents: as, "What money we had was taken away;" that is, All the money that we had," &c. -"What man but enters, dies;" that is, Any man who, &c. "What god but enters yon forbidden field."—Pope. Indeed, it does not admit of being construed after a noun, as a simple relative. The compound whatever or whatsoever has the same peculiarities of construc

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tion: "We will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth."--Jer. xliv. 17.

OBS. 4.-Who, which, and what, when the affix ever or soever is added, hare an unlimited signification; and, as some general term, such as any person, or any thing, is usually implied as the antecedent, they are all commonly followed by two verbs: as, "Whoever attends, will improve;" that is, Any person who attends, will improve. In parsing, supply the antecedent.

Obs. 5.--Which and what are often prefixed to nouns as definitive or interrogative adjectives; and, as such, may be applied to persons as well as to things: as, "What man?"—" Which boy?"

Obs. 6.—The word that is a relative pronoun, when it is equivalent to who, whom, or which: as, "The days that [which] are past, are gone for ever." It is a definitive or pronominal adjective, when it relates to a noun expressed or understood after it: as, "That book is new." In other cases, it is a conjunction: as, " Live well, that ye may die well."

Obs. 7.—The relative that has this peculiarity, that it cannot follow the word on which its case depends: thus, it is said, (John xiii. 29.] "Buy those things that we have need of;" but we cannot say, "Buy those things of that we have need."

Obs. 8.-The word as, though usually a conjunction or an adverb, has sometimes the construction of a relative pronoun: "The Lord added to the church daily such [persons] as should be saved."—

Arts ii. 47.

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OBS. 9. Whether was formerly used as an interrogative pronoun, referring to one of two things: as, "Whether is greater, the gold or the temple?"—Matt, xxiii. 17; but it is now seldom used, the interrogative which supplying its place.

Obs. 10.—Interrogative pronouns differ from relatives chiefly in this; that, as the subject referred to is unknown to the speaker, they do not relate to a preceding noun, but to something which is to be expressed in the answer to the question. Their person, number, and gender, therefore, are not regulated by an antecedent noun; but by what the speaker supposes of a subject, which may or may not agree with them in these respects: as, "What lies there?" Ans. "Two men asleep." Obs. 11.—In some instances what is used in the sense of an interjection: as, "What! take my money, and then my life?"

MODIFICATIONS.

Pronouns have the same modifications as nouns; namely, Persons, Numbers, Genders, and Cases.

Obs. 1.—In the personal pronouns, most of these properties are distinguished by the words themselves; in the relative, and the interrogative pronouns, they are ascertained chiefly by the antecedent and the verb.

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