Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-11-10
GRAMMAR SECOND CLASS

Several persons failed in Gram
mar. One person who had taught
school failed. This person came
back and failed again. From this
one a note is received, of which the
following is copy:
Oct. 9th, 1876.
Mr.. PARKER:-I do not see why
Pm not as capable of teaching a
winter school, or my standing is net
as good to receive certificate as 9TH
er persons around here, may, be you
have listened to some rich friend
that wanted the school & perhaps
needs it worse than do. But / will
never trouble you again
The following is this teachers
work in grammar:
l. Pleasing is partcipal it par
takes OF the properties of noun,
verb or an adjective. Partcipals used
as nouns, have the construction of
nouns. 1t modifies spring. Tender
ness and love are verbs indicative
voice to agree with their subject in
person and number. Echo is a verb.
Mountains noun Common N. Neuter
Gender Third person. round is
proposition, JOY is a noun, G. N. N.
G. Third p. Singular Number. Wan
dering partcapal. Rude is an ad-
jective modifying unconscious
Marks is verb. That a conjunction
ever adverb busy adjective Wheels
noun.
2. Work singular verbs should
have a singular nouns. There is a
word OF Euphony. Vigor is a noun.
3. Town g. country is equally
agreeable to me. Separate nouns
should have a singular verb agreea-
bic is in predicate with is.
4. The chief magistrate is styled
President. President is a Proper
Noun Neuter Gender.
5. The light & worthless.
The remaining questions call for
definitions merely. In general, these
were given correctly.
At a subsequent examination, Oct.
6, the following was given:
Parse the unde, lined words:
Go, drato the marble from its bed,
And make the cedar bend its giant head:
Let domes and columns through the wan
dering air
AdUance.i
For looe and hope, borne by the coming
years,
Advance.
Go is proposition and shows the
relation between man and draw.
Draw is verb, indicative mode,
and has man for it's subject.
From is proposition, shows the
relation between bed and marble.
Make is verb, indicative mode.
Bend is a verb, indicative mode,
has cedar for its subject.
Let is conjunction, connects the
sentences.
For is a proposition, shows the re-
lation between love and hope.
Love and hope are nouns, objective
case.
Borne is n verb, indicative mode.
There are agood many manuscripts
equal to the above III matter and
method, yet these applicants sought
to have the schools, because they
get along well with the pupils and
give satisfaction.
The State Superintendent says:-
Scholarship, moral character, abili-
ty TO goUern, aptness to tedch-thc
law requires all four of these qualifi-
cations in those to whom are intrust-
ed the highest interests of the state
the education of its youth.
School Laws, Sec. 1867, note a.
AS whole, we are not doing the
work that should be done in gram
mar George Sands" mastery of her
native tongue was well nigh marvel
Gus, and may be fairly accounted an
evidence of genius by Itself. The
fact is suggestive of that other fact,
often noted, but little needed IN the
LHS iisil vi 1AHiSllCdh SN stciIi VI cuu-
cation, that French girl is taught
her own language thoroughly,wheth-
err any other useful or ornamental
thing is taught her or not. 1t is this
thorough training of French women
in the use of their own language
which has given to that language a
mobility and vivacity, if we may so
use the term, which no other modern
tongue can rival, and at the same
time make French women the most
brilliant and agreeable of takers
George Sand wrote the best idiomat-
ic French, merely because she wrote
precisely as an educated French
woman talks. Writing hastily, she
could scarcely do otherwise; and for
tunately, the French of French wo-
mems conversation is the best
French there is. Would that some
thing like this might be said of
English"
Schermerhorn's Monthly
w. Z. PARKER