EXERCISE 3.

Verbal Adjectives.

1. What is a verbal word?

When a verbal word is used

to modify the application of a noun, what is it?

2. Use each of these words as a verbal adjective:

tinkling, flowing, flying, bleating,
rolling, sinking, whistling, trotting,
forgotten, expected, spoiled,

painted,

loaded, soiled,

embroidered, blotted.

3. Think what is done to the things named by the following words, and use before each a verbal adjective

EXERCISE 4.

Pronominal Adjectives.

1. What is a pronominal adjective?

2. As you read the following, tell of what part of speech every italicized word is:

One shall be taken and another left.

One road leads over the hill; the other road fol

lows the river.

Many shall be called and but few chosen.

Many copper mines have been discovered here
Few boys are willing to study so hard.

Either is good enough.

Either road is dangerous.
Which would you do?
Which book is yours?
This is the heavier.

This book is mine.

EXERCISE 5.

Possessives.

1. Fill the blanks in the following with possessive ad

1. Write the proper adjective derived from each of these

2. Use each of those adjectives in a sentence.

EXERCISE 7.

1. Mention every adjective used in the following, and tell what kind of adjective each is:

2. Tell what animal may be correctly described by each of

4. Fill the blanks in the following with appropriate ac

5. Place before each noun every word that you can think of that will tell which one is meant:

book,
house,

dog,
friend,

breakfast, picture,
pencil, story,

street,

window.

:

Thus the large ball, the little ball, the croquet ball, a light ball, a heavy ball, a rubber ball, John's ball, my ball, the new ball, the old ball, the hard ball, etc.

EXERCISE 8.

Think of something that most of the class have seen. Tell just how it looks, and see how many of the class can guess which one you are thinking of.

EXERCISE 9.

Make a list of adjectives that may be appropriately used to describe one thing, and let the class tell what they describe; thus, transparent, colorless, tasteless, natural, and liquid.

LESSON XIII.

COMPARISON OF ADJECTIVES.

A qualifying adjective may denote three different degrees of the quality which it expresses; thus,

taller,

tall, heavy,

generous,

selfish,

tallest.

XXVI. The simple form of a qualifying adjective is called its positive degree; thus, tall, heavy, generous, selfish.

XXVII. The form of an adjective which denotes a higher, or lower, degree than the positive, is called the comparative degree; thus, taller, heavier, more generous, less selfish.

The comparative degree shows that two things have been compared, and that one of them has more than the other of the quality expressed.

XXVIII. The form of an adjective which denotes the highest, or lowest, degree of the quality expressed is called the superlative degree; thus, tallest, heaviest, most generous, least selfish.

The superlative degree shows that three, or more, things have been compared and that one of the number has more, or less, of the quality expressed than any one of the others.

* See Part I. Lessons III., IV., and V., pp. 88-94.