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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Insert the definite article before each of the following words: ? mouse, lady, tigers, steamboat, clock, squirrels, book, cloak, rhinoceros, woman, inkstand, pencils, boy, elephant, goose, teachers, thief, girl, balloons, drama.Insert the indefinite article before each of the following nouns, being careful to follow the directions given above for the use of a and an. hermit, wilderness, hurricane, eulogy, apple, upstart, alligator, festival, urchin, wonder, hundred, husband, hunter, urn, youngster, Indian, yeoman ewe, waterman, hyacinth. LESSON III. NOUNS. What is the second part of speech 1 The Noun. What is your name 1 What is the name of the state in which you live ? What word means the same as name 1 Noun. What, then, may your name, and that of your state be called 1 rection. It will be well for him to underline such words as are misspelled, or improperly used, and require the pupil to correct them himself. Nouns. What is a Noun 7 A Noun is the name of any person, place, or thing; as, James, Boston, bench. To show that you understand this, mention three nouns, the names of persons; three, the names of places; three, the names of things. How many classes of nouns are there 1 Two; Common and Proper. What is a common noun ? A common noun is a name that distinguishes one class of things from another; as, man, city, river. What is a proper noun 7 A proper noun is a name that distinguishes one individual of a class from another; as, Byron, Brooklyn, Hudson. How do proper nouns always commence 1 With a capital letter. Is chair a proper or a common noun 1 lion ? George ? Alps f Connecticut? factory? Wednesday? summer? EXERCISE. Write out a list of the nouns in the following sentences, commencing the common noun
