matter.

See especially COMPOSITION EXERCISES in the Supplement--Selection from
Beecher.




PARTS OF SPEECH SUBDIVIDED.

LESSON 71.

CLASSES OF NOUNS.

+Hints for Oral Instruction+.--Hereafter, in the "Hints," we shall drop the
dialogue form, but we expect the teacher to continue it. A poor teacher
does all the talking, a good teacher makes the pupils talk.

The teacher may here refer to his talk about the classification of birds,
and show that, after birds have been arranged in great classes, such as
robins, sparrows, etc., these classes will need to be subdivided, if the
pupil is to be made thoroughly acquainted with this department of the
animal kingdom. So, after grouping _words_ into the eight great classes,
called Parts of Speech, these classes may be divided into other classes.
For instance, take the two nouns _city_ and _Brooklyn_. The word _city_ is
the _common_ name of all places of a certain class, but the word _Brooklyn_
is the _proper_ or particular name of an _individual_ of this class. We
have here, then, two kinds of nouns which we call +Common+ and +Proper+.

Let the teacher write a number of nouns on the board, and require the pupil