Q. What is the neuter gender? A. That which denotes neither masculine nor feminine gender; as a pen. Q. How many CASES have nouns ? A. Three; nominative, poffeffive, and obje&ive. A. That ftate of the noun which barely names a thing; as, a boy, &c. Q. What is the poffeffive cafe? A. That ftate of the noun which fpeaks of poffeffion. A. By adding ans with an apostrophe before it, or by prefixing the word of, to the noun in its nominative state; as, Nehemiah's book; or, the book of Nehemiah. (7) Q. What is the objective cafe? A. That ftate which a noun is in when acted upon by another; as, Samuel wrote that copy copy is the objec tive cafe. SECT. III. ADJECTIVE. Q. What are ADJECTIVES? A. Words placed before nouns, to denote the manners, properties, affections, and qualities of fuch nouns; as good, bad, white, black, wife, foolish. Q. What variations are adjectives fubject to? A. Thofe of three diftinct forms for expreffing three different ftates or degrees of a property or quality; as, white, whiter, white. (8) (7) If the noun end with s, fome writers omit the fign of this cafe; as But I would recommend the ufe for righteousness fake, warriors arms. or the apostrophe always, when the noun is in this cate, whether the additionals he added or not; (unless the form of the fentence require the prepofition of;) as, righteousness' fake; warriors' arms; Thomas' bock. --The analogy of the language feems alfo to require the ufe of the apostrophe with the neutral pronoun it, when it is in the poffefive cafe; as, it's beauty; r's ftrength; it's native purity. However this is neglected by many of our heft writers. (8) Such adjectives as exprefs the property or quality of bodies arising from their figure, admit of one form only; as a circular table, a conical Rone.---Brazen trumpet, wooden bowl, are nearly of the fame class. Q. What Q. What are thofe forms called? A. Pofitive, comparative, and superlative DEGREES OF COMPARISON. Q. How are thefe degrees of comparison formed? A. The comparative is generally formed by adding or er, and the fuperlative by adding for eft to the positive i great, the pof. greater-com, greatest,-fup. as, degrees of comp. (9) Q. How are they otherwife formed? A. The comparative and fuperlative degrees are fomeumes denoted by the words more and most; benevolent pof. as, more benevolent-comp. meft benevolent-up. SECT. IV. PRONOUN, Q. What is a PRONOUN ? A. A word used instead of a noun, as it's reprefentative. Q. Which are the principal things belonging to pronouns? A. Perfon, Number, Gender and Cafe, Q. How many PERSONS have they? A. Three: vis. I, the firft; then, the fecond; and, be, fee, or it; the third. (9) This form happens in words of one syllable, in fuch diffyllables as end in y, l, or le, and in fuch as have the accent on the laft fyllable. (10) This form most commonly happens when the pofitive is a word of many fyllables. There are fome adjectives vaftly irregular in the formation of thecomparative and fuperlative degrees. good, the pof. better degrees of comparison. Q. What Q. What NUMBERS have they? A. The plural to each of the fingulars juft mentioned 3, as, we, the firft; ye or you, the second; and they, the third perfon plural. Q. Where is the GENDER found? as, { He, the mafc. It, gender. Q. How many CASES have pronouns ? A. Three, like nouns ; viz. nominative, poffefives. and abjective. Q. Decline the pronouns, according to person, gender». and cafe, in the fingular number. Perfous, N. Cafe. Poff. C. mine, (11) Object. C. 2 Thou, (12) thine, his, her's, it's, him; mafc. g Q. Decline them in the plural number. A. (He, 3 She, her; fem. g It, it; neut. g. Perfons. Nom. Cafe. Poffeff. Cafe. Obj. Cafer A. Yes they are fuch words of the pronominal kind, as require fome noun to be used with them. ́(13) (11) Mine and thine, the poffeffive pronouns, were formerly written infead of the pronominal adjectives my and thy, when the following word began with a vowel; as, "By the greatnefs of thine arm.""And bring them to thine everlasting kingdom;" &c. But this form is now difufed. (12) It is now become cuftomary on all occafions, except in our addreffes to the SUPREME BEING, to ufe the plural You of the fecond Perfon, inftead of the fingular ThouIt is thus declin'd: You, nom. case; your's poff. cafe; and vou, object. cafe. (13) The nouns which belong to pronominal adjectives are oftentimes understood without being expreffed.. Asthepronominal adjectives parQ. Which Q. Which are the principal pronominal adjectives? A. My, thy, our, your, her, their, this, that, other, fome, one, none, who, which, that, each, every, either, &c. Q. Are any of them declinable? A. One of them is declined through the three cafes; thus, who, nom. c. whose, poff. c. and whom, the objective cafe. Q. Give an example of its use in the different cafes. A. I will conftantly worship that adorable BEING, whe created me; whofe I am; and whom I ought to ferve continually. SEGT. V. VERBS. Q. What is a VERE? A. A word that fignifies doing, fuffering, or being. take of the nature of both adjectives and pronouns, they are, with pro priety called by that name. -They may be divided into claffes of Poffeffives, Definitives, Relatives, and Diftributives. Poffefives are my, thy, our, your, her, and their. Definitives are this, that, other, fome, one, none, &c. Some of thefe Definitives are fometimes affociated with nouns, to afcertain fuch nouns the more forcibly.- They are, in fuch cafe, called by tome pronominal articles. HARRIS. The former of these, viz. this, that, other, have plurals belonging to them; as, thefe, thofe, others. One, other, and another, have fometimes the poffeffive cafe. L. Relatives are, who, which, and that; and are either Interrogatives, or Demonfiratives. In the Demonftrative ftate, they refer to fome zoun, or perfonal pronoun preceding; and in the interrogativeftate to fome one following.- -Example, Who fhail afcend into the hill of GOD? He that hath clean hands and a pure heart, who hath not lifted up his mind unto vanity. The perfonal pronoun He is the word referred to in both statea of the Relative who. Diftributives are each, every, either. We may here obferve, that own and feif, are fometimesjoined to Pof. feflives, to exprefs emphafs or uppofition. L. A. Three A. Three, active, paffive, and neuter. Q. What is an active verb? A. Such as denotes an action upon fome certain obje&; as, Thomas loves his book, Q. What is a passive verb?· A. Such as denotes the reception of an action from fome agent; as, the book is loved by Thomas. Q. What is a neuter verb ? A. Such as denotes a ftate of being merely; as, 1 am. (14) Q. Which are the principal things to be remembered in a verb ? A. Perfon, Number, Time, and Mood. hat is the PERSON of a verb known by? A. For the most part, by it's different endings. Q Give examples in the verbs, write, love, fing, and learn. A. firft perfon, I write; fecond perfon, thou writest; third perfon, he writes, or writeth. 1 (14) The neuter verb fometimes fignifies an act on ; but then it is fuck an action as has no fubject to fall on different from the agent; as, I swalk. (15) It was obferved in note (12) in page 94, that cußom has introduced the use of the plural instead of the lingular form, in the pronoun of the fecond perfon; it must therefore be here noted, that the plural form of the pronoun neceffarily requires the use of the plural form of the verb. Q. How |