upon the rock. 5. She was fighting for her life. 6. Then he saw that the end had come. 7. The Warren Hastings had gone down in fifteen fathoms. 8. The time will never return again. 9. Three months had elapsed since the foregoing events. 10. The players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakspeare that he never blotted out a line. 11. In six days we shall be crossing the mid-Atlantic. 12. We shall not have finished our task by the time appointed. EXERCISE 55. (1.) Make three sentences, each containing a Verb in the Present Complete Tense. (2.) Make three sentences, each containing a Verb in the Past Indefinite Tense. (3.) Make three sentences, each containing a Verb in (4.) Make three sentences, each containing a Verb in EXERCISE 56. S$ 137-139. Explain the force of shall in the following sentences: 1. Thou shalt do no murder. 2. You shall hear from me once a week. 3. The lion shall lie down with the lamb. 4. We shall reach Edinburgh in an hour. 5. There are two things which I shall seek to prove. 6. I shall never forget that day. 7. He shall take of the blood and sprinkle it upon the lintel. 8. I shall attend to your orders. 9. I shall be ten years old next June. 10. There thou shalt lack nothing. EXERCISE 57. §§ 140-142. (1.) Trace the historical changes in the form of the Plural Number of the Present Indefinite Tense. (2.) What is meant by Strong and Weak Verbs? Give ten examples of each. EXERCISE 58. § 142. (1.) Write out the Indicative Mood of the Verb to admire. (First Person Singular only.) (2.) Write out in full the Future Indefinite of to go, as used affirmatively, interrogatively, and negatively. EXERCISE 59. (Same continued.) (1.) Write out in full the Periphrastic form of the Present Indefinite Tense, Subjunctive Mood, of the Verb to speak. (2.) Write out the Imperative, Subjunctive, and Infinitive Moods, with the Gerunds and Participles, of the Verb to declare. EXERCISE 60. § 143. (1.) Write out the Past and Future Tenses Indicative of to be in the Interrogative form (in full). (2.) How many roots are employed in the conjugation of the Verb to be? Name them. EXERCISE 61. §. 144. Write out the Passive Voice of the Verb to beat according to Paradigm. EXERCISE 62. §§ 145, 146. (1.) Write out the Past Indefinite and Future Indefinite of to have: Interrogative form. (2.) Enumerate the four different uses of the Verb to do. [See also § 132, Obs. 2.] Which of them belongs to a distinct root? EXERCISE 63. §§ 147, 148. (1.) Which forms of will are never used as Auxiliaries? (2.) Mention all the Verbs which form the Second Person Singular by adding -t only. (3.) Make four sentences in which should is a Principal Verb. (4.) What is supposed by Grimm to have been the original meaning of shall? In what sense is it found in earlier authors? [Obs. 3.] EXERCISE 64. S$ 149-151. (1.) Make three sentences in which may is a Principal Verb, and three in which it is an Auxiliary. (2.) Account for the appearance of the letter 1 in could. (3.) Give the etymology of uncouth. (4.) What is the old form for I must, Present Indicative? EXERCISE 65. § 152. (1.) Enumerate all the Verbs which have the same form for First and Third Person Singular, Present Indicative. (2.) Write out the Past Indefinite of dare to venture, and dare to challenge, in full. (3.) Parse need, needs, in the following sentences: 1. I must needs be friends with thee. 2. Needs must I like it well. 3. It need not be so. 4. Need he go away? 5. What need we fear who knows it? 6. Good wine needs no bush. 7. Must he needs die? (4.) Explain the following : "I will not touch thine eye For all the treasure that thine uncle owes." "Will you with those infirmities she owes, (K. John, iv. 1.) EXERCISE 66. (Lear, i. 1.) § 155. (1.) Write out the Present Indicative of to wit, Interrogative form. (2.) Explain the origin of the forms I wis and whist (Past Participle). (3.) Parse and explain fully the words in italics in the following sentences :- 1. 2. 3. 4. "Woe worth the man That first did teach the cursed steel to bite In his own flesh." (Spenser.) "Me seemeth good, that with some little train "Whilom [see § 165, 1], as olde stories tellen us (Chaucer.) (Ib.) 5. Me thinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks. (Milton.) EXERCISE 67. S$ 156-158. (1.) Arrange Verbs in four classes, according to their formation of the Past Tense. Mention ten Verbs of each class. (2.) What general difference may be traced between the use of Verbs of the first three classes [Strong Verbs], and that of Verbs of the fourth class [Weak Verbs]? (3.) Draw out a further table of twelve Strong Verbs, compared with the same number of Weak Verbs resembling them in meaning. [As in § 157.] EXERCISE 68. §§ 159, 160. Write out the Principal Parts of the following Verbs :: Write out the Principal Parts of the following Verbs: EXERCISE 70. Correct the following sentences : 1. He had spoke only a few words when he was interrupted. 2. There let him lay! 3. This cloth is wove of two different kinds of thread. 4. On recovering his senses he drunk eagerly a draught of water. 5. He was froze to death. 6. We asked at the station, but they had not yet came. 7. All the statues had had parts of them broke off during the night. 8. He had never saw such a sight before. 9. First it freezed sharply, and then as suddenly it thew. 10. As soon as he was awoke, he rose his head from the pillow. 11. The letter was wrote with invisible ink. 12. The water was drew from a deep well. 13. After he had eat a little food, he laid down on the sofa. 14. Corn was grounded in hand-mills for daily use. 15. She had sank with all on board. 16. We had not yet chose our berths. 17. The figure was squozen completely out of shape. 18. After laying for some time insensible, he at length opened his eyes. 19. With great effort he had sawed the beam in two. 20. The ground was strewed with flowers. 21. The legs and arms had been hewed off. 22. The king had with some excess of vanity showed Solon the whole of his treasures. 23. The brig was loaded with timber and tar. 24. He had no sooner sowed his seed, than a swarm of small birds alighting eat up every grain. The Adverb. EXERCISE 71. SS 164, 165. (1.) Make six sentences, each with an Adverb modifying a Verb. (2.) Make six sentences, each with an Adverb modifying an Adjective. (3.) Make six sentences, each with an Adverb modifying another Adverb. EXERCISE 72. § 166. (1.) Make two sentences illustrating each of the eight Classes of Adverbs given. (2.) Show that the word yes is not an Adverb. EXERCISE 73. SS 167, 168. (1.) What was the original Adverbial termination in English? [§ 167, Obs. 3.] Mention six Adverbs which formerly had this termination, |