8. When a noun, or a pronoun, denotes possession, and is used to modify the application of a noun, what is it? 9. Write a sentence in which an adjective is used to show what is asserted.

EXERCISE 2.

Write a letter of application for a situation such as the little boys in the story wished to fill.

VOCABULARY LESSONS.

I.

1. Use a or an correctly before each of these words:

2. Before which of the words of the list may we use the? 3. What is the difference in meaning between a (or an) and the? 4. Which book is meant by a book? By the book?

The word a (or an) means one, or any.

The word the means some particular person or thing.

The adjectives a, an, and the are called articles.

Because the refers to some particular person or thing, it is called the definite article.

Because a and an do not refer to any person or thing in particular, they are called the indefinite articles.

* When a long word beginning with h is accented on any but the first syllable, and the h is not much aspirated, good speakers prefer to use an before that word.

1. What are the adjectives a, an, and the called?

2. Which is the definite article? The indefinite?

3. Which article may be used before a vowel? Before a consonant?

4. Which articles may be used only before the name of but one? Which may be used before a noun that names one, and also before a noun that names more than one?

II.

1. Use this, these, that, and those correctly in these sentences:

2. Write with each of these names as many adjectives as you can think of that may be appropriately used to describe the thing named:

III.

in, un, and im.

1. What is a derivative? A primitive word?*

2. When a primitive word is spoken of as part of a derivative, what is it called?

3. What is a prefix? A suffix?

4. Tell what the prefixes in, un, and im mean, in the fol

5. Use each word of the list correctly in a sentence.

6. What other prefix means not?

7. Use that prefix correctly with each of these words:

8. Use each of the words formed as an adjective.

See Appendix.

IV.

1. Write the adjectives which may be formed from each

2. Use each adjective before the name of something which

it describes.

ས.

A proper noun used as an adjective (as Boston boys, Philadelphia churches, an Indian chief), or an adjective derived from a proper noun (as English, from England; Scotch, from Scotland), is a proper adjective.

A proper adjective should begin with a capital letter.

1. Tell from what proper noun each of these words is derived:

2. Write the noun and the adjective.

3. Use each of the adjectives correctly before a noun that names something which the adjective describes.

VI.

Possessives.

1. What rules did you learn in Part I. that should guide you in writing names to denote possession?

2. Write each of these words so that it will denote pos

When several persons own a thing in common, the sign of possession is affixed only to the last name of the series; thus,

Jamie, Stanley and Arnold's mother.

In writing compound words like brother-in-law, the sign of possession is placed after the last word; thus, brother-inlaw's house.

And the same rule holds good in writing

"Robert-of-Lincoln's merry note."

A. T. Stewart & Co.'s Dry Goods Store.

Miss Garland and Miss Weston's Kindergarten.

The noun which the possessive limits is frequently understood, or not written; thus,

This house was my father's.

4. Write illustrations of all the rules that you know should be followed in denoting possession.