REVIEW QUESTIONS.

What new way of varying the meaning of words is introduced in Lesson 78?
Illustrate. What are modifications of the parts of speech? What is number?
How many numbers are there? Name and define each. Give the rule for forming
the plural of nouns. Illustrate the variations of this rule. What is
gender? How many genders are there? Name and define each. In how many ways
are the genders distinguished? Illustrate.




LESSON 81.

NOUNS AND PRONOUNS.--PERSON AND CASE.

+Hints for Oral Instruction+.--_Number_ and _gender_, as you have already
learned, are modifications affecting the _meaning_ of nouns and pronouns.
Number is almost always indicated by the ending; gender, sometimes. There
are two other modifications which refer not to changes in the _meaning_ of
nouns and pronouns, but to their different _uses_ and _relations_. In the
English language, these changes are not often indicated by a change of
_form_.

_I Paul_ have written. _Paul, thou_ art beside thyself. _He_ brought _Paul_
before Agrippa. In these three sentences the word _Paul_ has _three
different uses_. In the first, it is used as the name of the _speaker_; in
the second, as the name of _one spoken to_; in the third, as the name of
_one spoken of_. You will notice that the _form_ of the noun was not
changed. This change in the use of nouns and pronouns is called +Person+.