What is the distinction between a noun and an adjective?--By what sign
may an adjective be known?--Are participles ever used as
adjectives?--Does gender, person, number, or case, belong to
adjectives?--How are they varied?--Name the three degrees of
comparison.--What effect have _less_ and _least_ in comparing
adjectives?--Repeat the order of parsing an adjective.--What rule
applies in parsing an adjective?--What rule in parsing a verb agreeing
with a noun of multitude conveying _unity_ of idea?--What Note should be
applied in parsing an adjective which belongs to a pronoun?--What Note
in parsing _numeral_ adjectives?
QUESTIONS ON THE NOTES. Repeat all the various ways of forming the
degrees of comparison, mentioned in the first five NOTES.--Compare these
adjectives; _ripe, frugal, mischievous, happy, able, good, little, much_
or _many, near, late, old_.--Name some adjectives that are always in the
superlative, and never compared.--Are compound adjectives
compared?--What is said of the termination _ish_, and of the adverb
_very?_--When does an adjective become a noun?--What character does a
noun assume when placed before another noun?--How can you prove that
_custom_ is the standard of grammatical accuracy?
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