5. Distinguish between transitive and intransitive verbs. What is tense? Give the first person plural of the tenses in the indicative mood of the verb to sing.

How do you classify verbs with regard to the mode of forming their past tense? Give the past tense and past participle of the following verbs: to begin, to flee, to flow, to lose, to mistake, to spread, to understand.

6. What are adverbs? Classify them according to their meaning. Give examples of nouns used as adverbs, of adverbial phrases, and of adverbs formed from prepositions and from adjectives.

7. Explain briefly the correct uses of the auxiliary verbs shall and will in the first, second, and third persons.

Give examples of correct and incorrect uses.

8. Analyse:

Thus saying, from her side the fatal key,
Sad instrument of all our woe, she took;
And, towards the gate rolling her bestial train,
Forthwith the huge portcullis high up drew,
Which but herself not all the Stygian powers
Could once have moved.-Milton.

9. Parse the words in italics in the following passage:

Slowly and conscious of the rageful eye

That watch'd him, till he heard the ponderous door
Close, crashing with long echoes thro' the land,
Went Leolin.-Tennyson.

SENIOR CANDIDATES, 1873.

8.

English Grammar.

1. What inflexion do adjectives admit of in modern English? State the general rules for the formation of the comparative and superlative degrees, and give instances of regular and irregular comparisons.

2. What are pronouns? Enumerate the different classes into which they may be divided.

3. Mention the inflexions of which verbs admit. Enumerate the auxiliary verbs, distinguishing those which are auxiliaries of voice, mood, and tense.

4. What is the meaning of the terms weak' and 'strong' conjugations? Give the past tense and past participle of the verbs, to fall, to drink, to lend, to hit, to throw, to swim, to hide, to dig, to dream.

5. Explain the meaning of the terms subject, object, predicate; and give an example of a compound sentence and of a complex sentence.

6. Form sentences to show the different uses of the words for, since; mentioning in each case the part of speech which the word is.

7. Parse the words in italics in the following passage:

This is the state of man; to-day he puts forth
The tender leaves of hope; to-morrow blossoms,
And bears his blushing honours thick upon him:
The third day comes a frost, a killing frost,
And when he thinks, good easy man, full surely
His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root,
And then he falls, as I do.

8. Punctuate and analyse:

I desire you as the last suit I am like to make to you to believe that I do not fly my country for guilt and how passionately soever I am pursued that I have not done anything to make the university ashamed of me or to repent the good opinion they once had of me and though I must have no further mention in your public devotions I hope I shall be always remembered in your private prayers -Clarendon.

GENERAL INDEX.

I. GRAMMATICAL.