189. The following Suffixes denote that may be done, or having a capacity for :

190. The following are a few miscellaneous Suffixes:

VERBAL SUFFIXES.

191. The following are the chief Verbal Suffixes :

COMPOSITION OF WORDS.

192. A Compound word is one that is made up of two separate significant words; as, windmill, steamship.

When the two separate significant words have thoroughly coalesced, the compound is written as one word; as, railway.

When the union has not become complete, the two words are joined by a hyphen; as, grass-plot.

193. Compound words are formed in various ways:(a). By the simple union of two nouns-skylight,

instrument-maker.

(b). By the union of an adjective with a noun-nobleman, breast-high.

(c). By the union of a noun or adjective with an adverbial prefix-fore-thought, all-powerful.

(d). By the union of a noun or adjective with a participle-blood-stained, heaven-born.

EXERCISE XLV.

Point out all the primitive words in the following Exercise :

Clara, Clara Vere de Vere,

If time be heavy on your hands,
Are there no beggars at your gates,
Nor any poor about your lands?

Oh! teach the orphan-boy to read,
Or teach the orphan-girl to sew,
Pray heaven for a human heart,

And let the foolish yeoman go.-Tennyson.

EXERCISE XLVI.

Name the primary derivatives in the following Exercise, and show how they are formed :—

Such is the figure, painted and patched for the sun to mock, that is drawn slowly through the crowd from day to day; looking, as it goes, for the good old creature who was such a mother, and making mouths as it peers among the crowd in vain. Such is the figure that is often wheeled down to the margin of the sea, and stationed there; but on which no wind can blow freshness, and for which the murmur of the ocean has no soothing word. She lies and listens to it by the hour; but its speech is dark and gloomy to her, and a dread is on her face, and when her eyes wander over the expanse, they see but a broad stretch of desolation between earth and heaven.-Dickens.

EXERCISE XLVII.

Name the secondary derivatives in the following Exercise, and show how they are formed :

Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are,
That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm,
How shall your houseless heads, and unfed sides,
Your looped and windowed raggedness defend you
From seasons such as these? O! I have ta'en
Too little care of this. Take physic pomp;
Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel;
That thou mayest shake the superflux to them,
And show the heavens more just.—Shakespeare.

EXERCISE XLVIII.

Name the prefix in each of the following words, and give its meaning ::

Circumstances, interest, episode, success, execution, offer, contending, prospect, rejoice, extends, discovered, precipice, access, decided, extraordinary, attempt, decisive, imperial, division, relate, intense, constant, recognise, unconscious, unseal, afield, anatomy, apathy, antithetic, prologue, epilogue, adamant, infant, substance, conjure.

EXERCISE XLIX.

Name the suffix in each of the following words, and give the meaning:

Natural, incredulity, population, greatness, incredible, novelty, appointment, factory, endless, succession, visitor, mechanics, porter, noisy, bulky, human, philosophic, fortitude, breadth, spectacle, handle, golden, westward, southern, manifold, girth, twentieth, external, antique, feline, onerous, turbulent, expressive, dividend, circle, justice, darling, flowret, gosling, executor, informant, student.

EXERCISE L

Form nouns from the following words :—

Strong, meek, blue, slow, high, good, hard, sick, broad, long, wide, holy, steal, weal, merry, gird, kind, glad, soft, white, dark.

EXERCISE LI.

Form nouns from the following words :—

Serf, mason, jewel, cutler, shave, patron, shrive, lie, pay, idle, commit, beg, sail, grocer, weave, inherit, slave, cleave, flatter, fine, knight, friend, girl, worth, drive, post, trust, brew.

EXERCISE LII.

Form adjectives from the following words :

Venture, glad, mountain, woman, rest, fear, hurt, stave, fog, snow, dew, soldier, brass, gold, eat, love, charity, hand, joy, charge, wing, honey, wrath, clay, wit, brain, crag, mine, fair, blithe, grace, pomp, heart, comfort, earth, please, remorse, beauty, vigour, help, peace, art.

EXERCISE LIII.

Point out all the compound words in the following Exercise, and show of what they are compounded:

He acquitted himself very well, nevertheless. He sat in the

It was

drawing-room window with a drab-coloured coat on. engraved on copperplate. Ugly, mis-shapen, ill-conditioned she was, but beloved. He travelled by the great North Railway. The looking-glass hung on the wall. The rosy-fingered morn On the other side it seems to be,

arose.

Of the huge, broad-breasted, old oak tree.

Her blue-veined feet unsandaled were. Not a moonbeam enters there. Daylight had just departed. The vesper-bell hath not yet tolled. The snow-white plumage of the bird first attracted his attention. The night was pitch-dark. The forgetme-nots were very plentiful.