APPENDIX;

CONTAINING

EXERCISES

In Orthography, in Parsing, in Syntax, and in Punctuation.

PART I.

EXERCISES IN ORTHOGRAPHY.*

A sprig of mirtle. The Portgal mellon. The lilly of the valley. Duch currans.

A border of daysies. Red and white rasberA bed of vilets.

ries.

The Affrican mary-The prickley coucumgold.

ber.

The varigated jerani-Red and purpel red

um

Newington peeches.

Italian nectarias.
Turky apricocks.
The Orleans plumb.

A plate of sallet.

A dish of pees.

ishes.
Meally potatos.
Earley Duch turneps
Late colliflowers.
Dwarf cabages.
A hauthorn hedge.
A fine spredding oak.

A bunch of sparra-A weepping willow.

The gras is green.

*The erroneous spelling is to be rectified by Doct. Johnson's Dictionary.-For the propriety of exhibiting erroneous Exercises in Orthography, see the Advertisement to the Eleventh edition of the English Exercises.

A pidgeon pie.
A plumb pudding.
A rich cheasecake.
A beefstake.
A mutton chop.
A shoulder of lam.
A fillet of veel.
A hanch of veneson.
cup of choccolate.
A bason of soop.
Coalchester oisters.
Phessants and
triges.

A

A red herrin.

A large lobstor.

Saffron is yallow.
Vinigar is sowr.
Shugar is sweet.
A pair of scizzars.
A silver bodken.
A small pennknife.
Black-lead pensils.
Ravens' quils.

A box of waifers.
Seeling wax.
The pint of a sword.
pat-Edge of a razer.
Tail of a plow.
Gras of the fields.
A clean flore.

Sammon is a finer fishAn arm chare.

than turbot, perich,The front dore.

or haddick.

Lisbon oranges.
Spannish chessnuts.
A beach tree.
A burch tree.
A flour gardin.

A field of rie.

The wheat harvist.

A bleu sky.

A lovly day.

A beutiful sene.

A splendid pailace.

A chearful

ance.

counten-Encourageing look.

An antient castel.

A straight gate.

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PART II.

EXERCISES IN PARSING.

CHAP. I.

Exercises in Parsing as it respects Etymolo

gy alone.

SECT. I.

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 compar ison? 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 ?
7. A preposition. Why a preposition?
8. A conjunction. Why?

9. An interjection. Why?

SECT. II.

Specimen of Etymological Parsing.

Hope animates us.

Hope is a common substantive of the 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. (Decline the pronoun.)

A peaceful mind is virtue's reward.

A is the indefinite article. Peaceful is an adjective. (Repeat the degrees of comparisony Mind is a common substantive, of the third person, in the singular number, and the nominative case. (Decline the substantive.). Is in an irregular verb neuter, indicative mood, present tense, and the third person singular. (Repeat the present tense, the imperfect tense, and the participle; and occasionally conjugate the verb entirely.) Vir tue's is a common substantive of the third person,in the singular number,and the possessive case. (Decline the substantive.) Reward is a common substantive, of the third person, in the singular number, and the nominative

Gase.