1. Read the poem copied, and tell: (a) How many stanzas there are in it, and what a stanza is; (b) How many verses are in each stanza, and what a verse is; (c) what lines are quoted in the poem, and from whom they are quoted.

2. Who wrote the poem? What do you know of Mr. Bryant ?

3. What is the subject of the poem? Who was "Robert of Lincoln"? How does he tell his name?

4. Where was Robert of Lincoln swinging? How was he swinging? What kind of words are merrily and near in the first two lines? Why?

5. How did Robert of Lincoln describe his nest? Where was it? How is Robert of Lincoln described? What is the difference in meaning between plumage and foliage?

6. Why was the bob-o'-link's mate called a "Quaker wife"? What kind of word is Quaker in the first line of the third stanza? Why is it written with a capital?

7. What words are used to describe the " Quaker wife"? What kind of words are they? Why?

8. What does his wife do while he sings? What does broods mean in the sentence "Robert of Lincoln's Quaker wife broods in the grass while her

husband sings"? Of what part of speech is it? Why?

9. What is the subject of the sentence? The predicate?

10. Mention four adjectives used to express qualities of the mother

bird. Why is Robert called "prince of braggarts"?

11. How many eggs were in the nest? How did they look?

12. What did Robert think when he had six little ones to feed?

How

did he become? What did he do in the autumn? Who invites him to come back again? When is he to come? From whom are the last four

lines quoted?

4. Draw a line under every noun used in the poem.

5. Copy from the poem

two compound words,

a noun that denotes possession,

three verbal words.

6. Find these prepositions in the poem, and tell what noun is the object of each:

7. What is a preposition? When is a noun the object of a preposition?

8. Mention every pronoun in the poem.

9. See how many adjectives and adverbs you can find in the poem, and tell what each modifies.

10. Find as many verbs as you can, and tell about what each verb asserts something.

I. Proper Nouns and Common Nouns.

Review Questions.-1. When a word stands alone as the subject of a sentence, what may it be? 2. What is a noun? 3. What is a pronoun ? 4. Of what may a noun be the name? 5. When is a name a proper noun ? 6. How should a proper noun be written? 7. What is a common noun ? 8. Copy the sentences which follow, and draw a line under every noun in them. 9. Mention the nouns underlined, and tell of what each is the name. 10. How many, and what kind of nouns are used in these sentences? 11. Of how many words may a noun be made up? 12. Read examples from the sentences copied.

Boston is on Massachusetts Bay.

Leather is made from the skins of animals.

Printing was invented in Germany.

The Declaration of Independence was written by Thomas Jefferson.

Virginia was named for Queen Elizabeth of England. Rosa Bonheur loved animals, and made beautiful pictures of them.

Loitering is forbidden.

We are fond of playing.

The sighing of the wind and the rustling of the leaves tell us that autumn is here.

Is the statue of marble or of bronze?

On Saturday we found some granite and some slate at

the quarry.

A flower has a corolla, a calyx, stamens, and a pistil.

1. Read from the sentences

(a) the proper nouns,

(b) the common nouns which name

II. Verbal Nouns and Material Nouns.

A common noun that is the name of an action is called a verbal
noun; thus,

Sweeping and dusting are necessary.
Coming and going take time.

We are fond of reading.

They dislike sewing.

A common noun that is the name of a material is called a material noun; thus,

Brass is composed of zinc and copper.

Silk and linen are generally used.

The house was made of stone.

1. Copy these sentences; draw one line under every verbal noun and two lines under every material noun in them:

Our coins are made of gold, of silver, of nickel,

and of copper.

Our largest coin is the silver dollar.

Growling and snarling show anger.

The clock was striking twelve.

The striking of the clock disturbed him.

Roaring cannon announce the holiday.

We could hear the roaring of the cannon for miles.

2. What is a verbal noun?

3. What is a material noun?

4. Use each of these words as a noun, and tell what kind

ticking, marble, leather, walking, iron,

III. Collective Nouns.

5. Mention the nouns used in these sentences, and tell

what each names:

The army was defeated at Gettysburg.
A fleet left Gloucester to-day.

Large herds of bison crossed our track.

We saw a flock of sheep high up on the side of

the mountain.

Our class was excused at four o'clock.

When a common noun names a group, or collection, of things, it is called a collective noun.

6. Fill each blank in the following with a word that names the things of which the group, or collection,

7. Tell what word is used to name a group, or collec

8. Fill each blank in these sentences with a collective

noun:

A

The

thronged the streets of London.

agreed that he was guilty.