Part 9 (1/2)

LESSON 22.

ADJECTIVES.

+Hints for Oral Instruction+.--You are now prepared to consider the _fourth part of speech_. Those words that are added to the subject to modify its meaning are called +Adjectives+.

Some grammarians have formed a separate cla.s.s of the little words _the_, and _an_ or _a_, calling them _articles_.

I will write the word _boys_ on the board, and you may name adjectives that will appropriately modify it. As you give them, _I_ will write these adjectives in a column.

_Adjectives_.

small | large | white | black | straight + boys.

crooked | five | some | all |

What words here modify _boys_ by adding the idea of size? What by adding the idea of color? What by adding the idea of form? What by adding the idea of number? What are such words called? Why?

Let the teacher name familiar objects and require the pupils to join appropriate adjectives to the names till their stock is exhausted.

+DEFINITION.--An _Adjective_ is a word used to modify a noun or a p.r.o.noun+.

a.n.a.lysis and Parsing.

+Model+.--_A fearful storm was raging_. Diagram and a.n.a.lyze as in Lesson 20.

+Written Parsing+.

_Nouns_. | _p.r.o.nouns_. | _Adjectives_. | _Verbs_.

storm | ---- | A fearful | was raging.

+Oral Parsing+.--_A_ is an _adjective_, because it is joined to the noun _storm_, to modify its meaning; _fearful_ is an _adjective_, because ------; _storm_ is a noun, because ------; _was raging_ is a verb, because -----.

1. The rosy morn advances.

2. The humble boon was obtained.

3. An unyielding firmness was displayed.

4. The whole earth smiles.

5. Several subsequent voyages were made.

6. That burly mastiff must be secured.

7. The slender greyhound was released.

8. The cold November rain is falling.

9. That valuable English watch has been sold.

10. I alone have escaped.

11. Both positions can be defended.