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Examination Fapees. Class E.—English Geammae and Composition Time allowed Three hours of each Defhle thfi ternS ' " noUn " " abstract noun," "collective noun," and give two examples 2 Give the various methods of indicating difference of gender in nouns, and write down two examples of each method. 3. Decline in full the personal pronouns, I, she, it. Write three short sentences in which the nominative possessive, and objective cases of who, used as a relative pronoun, respectively occur 4. Mention all the inflections of which verbs admit. Distinguish between the use of shall and will. Write down three verbs that are used both transitively and intransitively o. Define a preposition. What are the chief relations expressed by the preposition? Give two examples of words that are used both as adverbs and prepositions 6. State the force of the prefix in each of the following words, and indicate the language to which each prefix belongs Eetract, separate, diameter, foretell, withstand How are diminutives formed ? Give three examples. 7 Define 'a complex sentence, and name all the kinds of subordinate sentences which a complex sentence may include. 8. (1. Analyse and parse— " That day Llewellyn little loved The chase of hart or hare." (2.) Correct the following sentences, and give in each case the reason for your correction (a.) He was a poet subhmer than me. (b. Let the book lay on the table, (c. I wonder who they have asked to the party (_.) The bird has forsook its nest. (<, I shall never see none of you

Class E.—Exeecise in Dictation and Spelling. (Part of a Paper on English Grammar and Composition.) 9 ' Our happiness as thinking beings must depend on our being content to accept only partial knowledge even in those matters which chiefly concern us. If we insist upon perfect intelligibility and complete declaration on every moral subject, we shall instantly fall into misery of unbelief Our whole happiness and power of energetic action depend upon our being able to breathe and live m the cloud content to see it opening here and closing there, rejoicing to catch, through the thinnest films of it, glimpses of stable and substantial tnmgs, but yet perceiving a nobleness even in the concealment, and rejoicing that the kindly veil is spread where the untempered light might have scorched us or the infinite clearness wearied. —Euskin. 10. Spelling exercise Succession, business, crystalline, duteous, mortgagee, auxiliary emphasize, schooner species, modelled, gnarled, piecemeal, symmetry, reverie

Class E—Arithmetic. Time allowed Three hours 1. Reduce a thousand million a hundred thousand and ten square yards to acres 2. Multiply 15 miles 16 p. 2 ft. by 35 T 2 T . _s « W f wW i?;K d " t di l ded £?° ng 8 men and 6 b °y s ' S ivin S each man three times as much as a boy, what is the share of each ? 4. Find, by Practice, the value of 39 oz. 16 dwt. 18 gr at 9s. lOd. per ounce the rLnr! H " 8 amount to £3,250, which it is calculated will yield a dividend of Bs. in t^Lon^T^l^ty tUrnS UP ' Which redUC6S the dividend t0 6S - ln the P° und lOft^im^i^^P^qSylrdP^ 118 ° f a r °° m Bm ' IODg ' 12ft ' Wd ' - d mimiv^^^lo^ b + l the lea /\ com ™° n multiple and the greatest common measure of two mUJ %fl\ wP r myi * f lr r P n t Ct l% the same as the P roduct of the two numbers. Emd the G.C.M. and the L.C.M. of 168, 462, and 616. 8. Simplify £ of 4J of Js|, and find the value of fof a ton + fof3 qr - &of 7 cwt. 9. Show how to reduce a terminated decimal to a vulgar fraction. Divide -003217 by -0625, and -6285 by 148. -*__.. ""-■ be ™ th 5s - -—■ ™ «» 12 A squatter engaged 20 shearers, who could have shorn his flock in 24 days but after Ts wt t ° the -n hearerS If *T™ h ° W lou * wiU the retoainder ta ke finish thl work ? 14 IhookXr; f9n Unt t0 £ f, 9 12S n 7d - m 3 yearS at 7 * P er cent - cim P le interest? in ord rto ntpVrtnt "" by S6llmg * Y ° W at ™»* he «*» the F*» to

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