When the men, who were exploring the pit, learned that the water had risen rapidly, they knew that the imprisoned miners could not be rescued without great

difficulty. III. Parse the words in italics in the above. IV. Define, giving examples in well constructed sentences:

Complex sentence, simple sentence, compound sentence, subject, predicate, object, singular, plural.

V. Name the author and explain so as to show that you understand the meaning and

context of each of the following—-

(a) Let me tell you, Cassius, you yourself are much condemmed to have an itching palm.

(b) They also serve who only stand and wait.

(c) He fell upon his face on the spot which was covered with his poor secretary’s

blood. (d) With thunders from her native oak. She quells the floods below.

(e) It was a little disconcerting to me, to find, when I was being helped up behind the coach, that I was supposed to have eaten all the dinner without any assistance.

(e) And make that speech, whose thunders roll Down the broad stream of time. The harbinger from pole to pole. Of love and peace sublime.

VI. Quote (12) consecutive lines from any one of the following, naming the author of

the selection quoted: Canada, Hands All Round, The Barefoot Boy, Waterloo, or FitzJames and

Roderick Dhu.

VII. Write a letter ( not more than two pages) to a friend in England, who has never been in Canada, telling about your Island home.

VIII. Rule on your paper the outline of an envelope addressing the same to the friend to whom you wrote ( Question VII.)

DICTATION

To be read to candidates as directed. ----- Question I of English paper

The victory of Trafalgar/ was celebrated, / indeed, / with the usual forms of rejoicing? but they were withoutjoy; / for such already / was the glory of the British navy, / through Nelson’s surpassing genius, / that it scarcely seemed / to receive any addition / from the most signal victory / that ever was achieved upon the seas. / The

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