consists neither in beauty or riches, but in the favour of God. Too much wealth are frequently the occasion of poverty. Either they or he was wrong. The reciprocations of love and friendship between he and I, have been many and sincere. These are the men who you might suppose was the authors of it. R PART V. EXERCISES IN PARSING, AS IT RESPECTS BOTH ETYMOLOGY AND SYNTAX. SECT. I. Syntactical Parsing Table. Article. WHY is it the definite article? Why omitted? Why repeated? Substantive. Why is it in the possessive case? Why in the objective case? Why in apposition? Why is the apostrophic s omitted? Adjective. What is its substantive? Why in the singular, why in the plural number? Why in the comparative degree Why placed after its substantive? Pronoun. What is its antecedent? Verb. Why is it in the singular, why in the plural number? Why of the masculine, why of the feminine, why of the neuter gender? Why of the first, of the second, or of the third person? Why is it in the nominative case ? Why the possessive ? objective? Why the Why omitted? Why repeated? Why is it in the singular? Why in the plural number? Why in this particular tense? What relation has it to another verb, in point of time? Why do participles sometimes go vern the objective case? Why is the verb omitted? Why repeated? Adverb. What is its proper situation? Why is the double negative used? Preposition. What case does it govern? Which is the word governed? Why this preposition? Why omitted? Why repeated? Conjunction. What moods, tenses, or cases, does it connect? And why? What mood does it require? Why omitted? Why repeated? Interjection. Why does the nominative case follow it? Why the objective? Why omitted? Why repeated? SECT. II. Specimens of Syntactical Parsing. Vice degrades us. Vice is a common substantive of the neuter gender, the third person, in the singular number, and the nominative case. Degrades is a regular verb active, indicative mood, present tense, third person singular, agreeing with its nominative "vice," according to RULE I, which says; (here repeat the rule.) Us is a personal pronoun, first person plural, in the objective case, and governed by the active verb, "degrades," agreeably to RULE XI, which says, &c. He who lives virtuously prepares for all events. He is a personal pronoun, of the third person, singular number, and masculine gender. Who is a relative pronoun, which has for its antecedent "he," with which it agrees in gender and number, according to RULE V, which says, &c. Lives is a regular verb neuter, indicative mood, present tense, third person singular, agreeing with its nominative "who," according to RULE VI, which says, &c. Virtuously is an adverb of quality. Prepares is a regular verb neuter, indicative mood, present tense, third person singular, agreeing with its nominative "he." For is a preposition. All is an adjective pronoun, of the indefinite kind, the plural number, and belongs to its substantive, " events," with which it agrees, according to RULE VIII, which says, &c. Events is a common substantive, of the third person, in the plural number, and the objective case, governed by the preposition "for," accord ing to RULE XVII, which says, &c. |