His is a pronoun of the third person, because its antecedents, father and husband, are of the third person.-Rule VI. His is of the sing. num., because its singular antecedents, father and husband, though taken together, designate the same person.-Rule VI, Note 2. His is in the poss. case, and is governed by the noun place.— Rule II.

Section 7.

Pronouns referring separately to two or more antecedents in the singular.

EXAMPLES.

1. Either Mary or Eliza will do the work for her mother (a).

2. Neither James nor Henry likes his book.

3. The father, and not the son, lost his life (b).

4. No citizen, no ruler, should give his influence to such a measure.

5. Each leaf and each blossom holds the dew in its embrace.

6. The good man, and the sinner, too, shall receive his reward (e).

7. Truth, and truth only, is worth seeking after for its own sake.

8. Any boy or girl that violates a rule of the school, will incur the displeasure of his or her teacher.

MODELS FOR PARSING.

(a) Her is a pers. pron.; 3d, sing., fem., agreeing separately with its antecedents, Mary and Eliza.-Rule VI, Note 3. Her is in the poss. case, and is governed by the noun mother.

Will do is a verb; irreg., trans., indic., 1st fut., 3d, sing., agreeing separately with its subjects, Mary and Eliza.---Rule IX, Note 3.

(b) His is a pronoun; 3d, sing., agreeing with its antecedent father. Rule VI. His is in the poss. case, and is governed by the noun life.-Rule II.

Father is a noun, etc., and is the subject of the verb lost.— Rule VIII.

Son is a noun, etc., and subject of the verb lost understood.Rule VIII.

NOTE. The ellipsis being supplied, the sentence will read thus: "The father [lost his life], and not the son, lost his life."

(c) His is a pronoun; pers., 3d, sing., masc., agreeing with its antecedent man.-Rule VI. His is in the poss. case, and is governed by reward.—Rule II.

Section 8.

Miscellaneous exercises in the parsing of the pronouns.

EXAMPLES.

1. They who have nothing to give, can often afford relief to others by imparting what they feel.

2. Our ignorance of what is to come, and of what is really good or evil, should correct our anxiety about worldly success.

3. The chief misfortunes which befall us in life can be traced to some vices or follies which we have committed.

4. Moral and religious instruction derives its efficacy not so much from what men are taught to know, as from what they are brought to feel.

5. Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our

manners.

6. What avails the show of external liberty to one who hath lost the government of himself?

7. On whom does time hang so heavily as on the slothful and lazy? To whom are the hours so lingering? Who are so often devoured with spleen, and obliged to fly to every expedient which can help them to get rid of themselves?

8. It is not that my lot is low,

That bids the silent tear to flow.-H. K. White.

9. There are few persons in the country that I do not know something of.

10. Now tell us what 't was all about.

11. But what they killed each other for,

I could not well make out.

12. Is he free who must flatter and lie to compass his ends; who must bear with this man's caprice, and that man's scorn; [] must profess friendship where he hates, and respect where he condemns; who is not at liberty to appear in his own colors, nor to speak his own sentiments; who dares not be honest, lest he should be poor?-Blair.

13. The upright man esteems nothing but what is honorable, and abhors whatever is base and unworthy in moral conduct.-Blair.

14. The upright man is indeed what he appears to be; full of truth, candor, and humanity.-Blair.

15. Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he.-Matt. xxvi: 48.

16. Nothing except what flows from the heart, can render even external manners truly pleasing.-Blair.

17. What I forfeit for myself is a trifle.-Goldsmith. 18. What were then the sentiments, and what was the language of this great and good man?-Blair.

ARTICLE XII.

ADJECTIVES.

Section 1.

Classes of adjectives.

(a) Common adjectives.

EXAMPLES.

1. Now came still evening on, and twilight gray
Had in her sober livery all things clad (a).-Milton.
2. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day (b),
The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea,
The plowman homeward plods his weary way,
And leaves the world to darkness and to me.

Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight,
And all the air a solemn stillness holds,
Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight,
And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds;
Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tower,
The moping owl does to the moon complain
Of such as, wandering near her secret bower,
Disturb her ancient solitary reign.

Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade,
Where heaves the turf in many a moldering heap,
Each in his narrow cell forever laid,

The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

The breezy call of incense-breathing morn,

The swallow twittering from her straw-built shed,
The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn,
No more shall rouse them from their lowly
bed (c).--Gray.

MODELS FOR PARSING.

(a) Still is an adjective, a word used to qualify or limit the meaning of a substantive; descriptive, because it describes the noun to which it belongs. It is also a common adjective, because it is an ordinary epithet of the language. It is in the positive degree, because it expresses the quality without increase or diminution, and qualifies the noun evening.-Rule VII.

OTHERWISE.

Still is a descriptive or common adjective in the positive degree, and qualifies the noun evening.-Rule VII.

(b) Parting is the pres. part. of the reg. intrans. verb to part. It is used here as a descriptive adjective, and qualifies the noun day.-Rule VII.

OTHERWISE.

Parting is a participial adjective, qualifying the noun day.— Rule VII.

OTHERWISE.

Parting is a descriptive adjective. It can not with propriety be compared, and belongs to the noun day.-Rule VII.

(c) Straw-built is a compound descriptive adjective. It can not with propriety be compared, and belongs to the noun shed.Rule VII.

(b) Definitive adjectives.

EXAMPLES.

1st. Demonstratives: as, this man (a), these men (b); that boy, those boys; the same girl; yon or yonder house; both kings.

2d. Distributives: as, each hour (c); every day; either book; neither pen.

3d. Indefinites: as, all things; any person (d); certain men; few books; many dogs; much water; one lion; other people; another time; some cows; what news; which child; sundry articles; several items.