If the learner is very young he may be led step by step to parse in the following manner
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1 He may name the parts of speech according to his grammar
2 He may also decline some of the more easy nouns and verbs
3 and 4 And here some that are less easy naming their declensions and conjugations
5 He may resolve nominative cases and their verbs by the first concord and what other rules he may have learnt in his grammar applicable to the nom case particularly its gender
6 He may go on to parse accusative cases governed by verbs genitive cases the latter of two nouns infinitives adjectives of whatever sort agreeing with nouns in the nom accus or gen cases always declining such verbs as what participles he parses are derived from and applying his grammar rules as far as he has learnt them
7 He may account for other oblique cases governed of verbs and likewise of prepositions and under Rule 6 here he may begin to parse the ablative absolute
8 In the eighth chapter he may parse verbs that have no nom case expressed and adjectives that have nouns expressed supplying the ellipsis and here under Rule 8 he may begin to parse relatives as connected with their antecedents if he can be made to comprehend that
9 Now he may resolve the governments of adjectives parse nouns of time and place and observe under Rule 1 1 how nom cases as well as others follow after certain verbs
10 and 11 In parsing the word governed he may observe how such word though construed after the word governing it is commonly and elegantly set before in the Latin and he should be careful to write so himself in his Latin
12 13 and 14 He may be reasonably expected to resolve any word that occurs in these chapters particularly in such peculiarities of the Latin idiom as are here exemplified and these too he should study to imitate in his writings NB Of what words or sentences the learner is about to parse in Latin he may in each chapter parse first the concise English translation This will greatly assist him in both languages by leading him to observe their relative differences and accordances In this he must compare adjectives and adverbs in the three degrees note the signs of cases persons voices moods tenses their agreements governments and decline nouns pronouns and verbs in this or some such ner viz
The Latin Primer In Three Parts : Part I. Rules of Construction ... : Part II. Rules of Position ... : Part III. A Large and Plain Description of the Latin Verse ... Von Richard Lyne
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