EXERCISE I.

Name each adjective in the following sentences, state its degree, and

give the word it modifies:—

1. I never saw a brighter sky.

2. It was a cruel and most unjust sentence.

3. The shores of this lake are high and rocky.

4. To-morrow’ll be the happiest time of all the glad New-year;

Of all the glad New-year, mother, the maddest, merriest

day.—_Tennyson._

5. I sat and watched her many a day,

When her eyes grew dim and her locks were gray.—_Eliza

Cook._

6. Small service is true service while it lasts;

Of friends, however humble, scorn not one.—_Wordsworth._

7. Look. She is sad to miss,

Morning and night

His—her dead father’s—kiss;

Tries to be bright,

Good to mamma, and sweet.

That is all. “Marguerite.”—_Dobson._

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