3. Paraphrase the following:
:-

"He that holds fast the golden mean,

And lives contentedly between
The little and the great,

Feels not the wants that pinch the poor,
Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door,
Embittering all his state." (176.)

SET F.

"They do not err

Who say that when the poet dies
Mute nature moans her worshipper,
And celebrates his obsequies;

Who say tall cliff and cavern lone

For the departed Bard make moan.”

Paraphrase this passage, analyse the subordinate sentences, and parse the words printed in italics. (176.)

2. What Latin prefixes occur in the above passage? words in which these prefixes undergo a modification. 3. State the various kinds of subordinate sentences. so called? and how are they distinguished? (94.)

Mention some

(107, 108.) Why are they

1.

SET G.

"Hadst thou but lived, though stripped of power,

A watchman on the lonely tower,

Thy thrilling trump had roused the land,

When fraud or danger were at hand."

Paraphrase this passage, analyse it, and parse the words printed in italics. (176.)

2. Give the meanings of the following Latin prefixes, and illustrate each by two English words: ad, ante, contra, extra, retro, sub, ultra. (107, 108.)

3. State, with examples, some of the Latin terminations in English abstract nouns.

(119.)

1.

SET H.

"The service done, the mourners stood apart; he called to mind how he had seen her sitting on that very spot, and how her book had fallen on her lap as she was gazing with a pensive face upon the sky. Another told how he had wondered that one so delicate as she should be so bold; how she had never feared to enter the church alone at night. (a) Point out the subordinate conjunctions in the above. State to which class of subordinate conjunctions each belongs, and show why such conjunctions are called subordinate. (60.)

(b) Parse the words in italics.

2. How can you tell when the following are used as adverbs, and when as conjunctions?—after, before, since. Give examples of them in both uses. (60.)

SET I.

1.

"The pass was left; for then they wind
Along a wide and level green,

Where neither tree nor tuft was seen."-Scott.

(a) Show from the above passage that conjunctions may join both principal to principal sentences and subordinate to principal sentences. (94.)

(b) Parse the participles in the above, and show how participles differ from verbs.

(40.)

2. In analysis an enlargement is said always to be an adjective, or to partake of the nature of an adjective. This being so, what parts of a sentence are (properly speaking) capable of enlargement? Give examples of such enlargements.

(94.)

SET K.

1.

"It is the first mild day of March,

Each minute sweeter than before;

The redbreast sings from the tall larch

That stands beside our door.

My sister! ('tis a wish of mine)

Now that our morning meal is done,

Make haste, your morning tasks resign,

Come forth, and feel the sun. Wordsworth.

(a) How many sentences are there in the above? Assign each to

the class to which it belongs.

(b) Parse the words in italics.

2. What are corresponding conjunctions?

Give a list of them.

(60.)

SET L.

1. "Before a novice can commence the study of any science, he must make himself acquainted with the terms employed in that science." (a) Point out the principal and the adverbial sentence in the above, and show why each is so called. (95.)

(b) Mention other kinds of subordinate sentences besides adverbial, and give an example of each.

(94.)

(c) Point out, and carefully parse, the participles and auxiliary verbs in the above.

2. What are causal conjunctions? Why are they so called? Give examples. (60.)

PUPIL-TEACHERS.-THIRD YEAR.

Requirements.—Parsing, analysis, and paraphrasing of complex sentences. Prefixes and affixes generally. Knowledge of the simple tests by which English words may be distinguished from those of foreign origin.

SET A.

1. Analyse the following, parsing the words in italics :—

"Oh, how it yearned my heart, when I beheld,

In London streets that coronation day,

When Bolingbroke rode on roan Barbary !

That horse, that thou so often hast bestrid,

That horse, that I so carefully have dressed !”—Richard II.

2. What are impersonal verbs? Give examples.

3. What is the origin and force of the particle be in beheld, bestrid? Give instances of it as a prefix to nouns. (104.)

4. Most monosyllabic words are of English origin. Point out any exception to this rule in the above. (132.)

SET B.

1. "The whole cavalcade paused simultaneously when Jerusalem appeared in view; the greater number fell upon their knees, and laid their foreheads in the dust, whilst a profound silence, more impressive than the loudest exclamations, prevailed over all; even the Moslems gazed reverently on what was to them also a holy city, and recalled to mind the pathetic appeal of their forefather, ‘Hast thou not a blessing for me, also, O my father?'"

Paraphrase this passage. (177.)

2. Point out the subordinate sentences in it, analyse the two last, and also parse the last of them.

(S9.)

3. Point out also and explain the meaning of any Latin or English prefixes in this passage. (104-110.)

1.

SET C.

Morning fair

Came forth, with pilgrim steps in amice gray,
Who with her radiant finger still'd the roar

Of thunder, chased the clouds, and laid the winds

And grisly spectres which the fiend had raised.”—Milton,

Analyse the foregoing, parsing the words in italics.

2. Paraphrase the passage.

(Amice means a pilgrim's robe.) (177.)

3. Point out the prefix in each of the following words: spend, enormous, symmetry, accede, pellucid, ignoble, coagulate, suppress, combustion. (104-112.)

SET D.

1. "These feelings I shared in common with the humblest pilgrim that was kneeling there, and, in some respects, he had even the advantage of me; he had made infinitely greater sacrifices than I had done, and undergone far heavier toils, to reach that bourne. Undistracted by mere temporal associations, he only saw the sacred spot wherein the Prophets preached, and David sung, and Christ had died." Paraphrase this passage. (177.)

2. Point out the subordinate sentences in it, analyse the two first, and parse the second of them. (90.)

3. What are the means of readily distinguishing between words of English and of Latin origin? Take your examples from the above passage.

(221.)

SET E.

1.

"An inadvertent step may crush the snail
That crawls at evening in the public path;
But he that has humanity, forewarned,

Will tread aside and let the reptile live."

Analyse the above, parsing the words in italics.

2. Explain how the word aside is formed, and give instances of adverbs of similar formation. (104.)

3. Point out a Latin prefix and a Latin suffix in the above. (107110.)

4. Correct, where needful, the following sentences :—

(a) It is I that he fears.

(b) He is a boy of nine years old.

(c) Who can this letter be from?
(d) I feel coldly this morning.

SET F

1. If enlargements are words and phrases attached to the nouns in a sentence, and extensions words or phrases attached to the verbs or predicates, assign all the enlargements and extensions which occur in the following to their proper classes :—

(a) "The harp, his sole remaining joy,
Was carried by an orphan boy."

(b) "Ocean and earth, the solid frame of earth,
And ocean's liquid mass, in gladness lay

Beneath him."

(c) “The sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea,
When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee."

2. Parse any participles, or verbs in the infinitive mood, which occur in the following, and give the meaning of the passage in simple words of your own:—

"Blest be the art that can immortalise,

The art that baffles time's tyrannic claim
To quench it."

3. With what Latin prepositions are the words support, suffice, effect, destroy, compounded? Give the meaning of the preposition in each (107-110.)

case.

SET G.

Give

1. Words or phrases attached to the nouns of a sentence are called enlargements; attached to the verbs they are called extensions. two examples of each.

2.

(89.)

"Dost thou so hunger for my empty chair,

That thou wilt needs invest thee with mine honours?

Stay but a little; for my cloud of dignity

Is held from falling with so weak a wind,

That it will quickly drop."-Shakespeare: Henry IV.

(a) Analyse the last three lines.

(b) Parse the words in italics.

(c) Give the meaning of the above passage in your own words, explaining, so far as you can, the figures and metaphors.

3. What are the Latin prepositions that mean out of, from, under? Give examples of words in which they occur, pointing out the force of the preposition in each case. (107.)

SET H.

1. What is the derivation of the word transitive, and how is the derivation connected with the use of the words transitive, intransitive, in grammar?

2. "When I came to my castle I fled into it like one pursued; whether I went over by the ladder or went in at the hole which I called a door, I cannot remember; no, nor could I remember the next morning; for never frighted hare fled to cover, or fox to earth, with more terror of mind than I to this retreat."-Defoe.

(a) Analyse the above passage from "When I came to "next morning." (94.)

(b) Parse the words in italics.