. An adjective phrase. What is
an attribute complement? Illustrate. What is an object complement?
Illustrate. Illustrate and explain the difference between simple,
complex, and compound sentences.
NOUNS. What is the difference between singular and plural number?
How is the plural of most nouns formed? Of nouns ending in _s,
ch, sh, x_, or _z_? In _y_? In _f_ or _fe_? In _o_? Of letters,
figures, etc.? Of compound nouns? Of proper names and titles? How
is the possessive case of most nouns formed? Of nouns ending in
_s_ or in an _s_ sound? Of a compound noun or of a group of words?
What is gender? How is the feminine gender formed from the masculine?
What is the difference between common and proper nouns?
PRONOUNS. What is a pronoun? What is the antecedent of a pronoun?
What is the rule for their agreement? What is meant by "person"
in pronouns? Name five pronouns of each person. Name the pronouns
that indicate masculine gender. Feminine. Neuter. What pronouns may
be used to refer to antecedents that stand for persons of either
sex? To antecedents that are collective nouns of unity? To animals?
What are nouns of common gender? By what pronouns are they referred
to? Should a singular or a plural pronoun be used after _everybody_?
After _some one_? After _some people_? After two nouns connected by
_or_? By _nor_? By _and_? What are relative pronouns? Name them.
With what kind of antecedents may each be used? What is the difference
between the explanatory relative and the restrictive relative?
Illustrate. What is an interrogative pronoun? What pronouns may
be used only in the nominative case? In the objective case? When
should the nominative case be used? The objective? The possessive?
May _thou_ and _you_ be used in the same sentence? When should _but
that_ be used, and when _but what_? May _them_ be used adjectively?
May _which_ be used with a clause as an antecedent? May _which_ and
_that_, or _who_ and _that_ be used in the same sentence with the
same antecedent?
ADJECTIVES AND ADVERBS. Distinguish between adjectives and adverbs.
Illustrate. What is comparison? What is the positive degree, the
comparative, the superlative? Illustrate each. May one say, _He is
the largest of the two?_ Reason? _He is the larger of the three?_
Reason? _He is the largest of all?_ Reason? Name three adjectives
which cannot be compared. May one say, _Paris is larger than any
city?_ Reason? _Paris is larger than all cities?_ Reason? _Par
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