Harvey's Elementary Grammar and Composition · Lesson 56–58 · Part 2: Part II: The parts of speech in full

54. Parsing nouns

Goal: Your child can parse a noun: name it, give its properties, its relation, and the rule for its case.

⏱ About 30 minutes · 7 steps

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You'll need

  • The book, open to this lesson
  • Paper and a pencil (or a slate)

What's in the book

Lesson 56 says what parsing is, Lesson 57 gives the order of parsing a noun with Rules I to IV, and Lesson 58 gives two models, Rules V to VII, sentences to analyze and parse, and sentences to correct.

The lesson, step by step

  1. Review

    Ask your child to decline "horse."

  2. What parsing is

    Read:

    Parsing consists (1) In naming the part of speech; (2) In telling its properties;

    (3) In pointing out its relations to other words; (4) In giving the rule for its construction.

    SayAnalysis takes a sentence apart. Parsing describes one word fully.

  3. The order of parsing

    The book's order for a noun: A noun, and why? Common or proper, and why? Gender? Person? Number? Case? Rule.

    Read two of the rules:

    The subject of a proposition is in the nominative case.

    The object of a preposition is in the objective case.

  4. Follow a model

    Read the book's Model I for

    Wheat is a vegetable.

    Then parse "wheat" together using the order.

  5. Parse the book's sentences

    Parse the nouns in a few of these:

    Borneo is a large island.

    John's dog bit Clarence.

    O Helen! father is coming.

  6. Correct the errors

    Fix some from the page:

    Jane has two brother-in-laws.

    Three chimnies were on fire.

    The mens' wages should be paid to-day.

  7. Use it today

    Parse one noun from today's reading out loud, in order.

Afterwards

Parsing takes practice. Do two or three sentences a day for several days.

Answers to the book's problems

Parsing examples: Borneo, proper, neuter, third person, singular, nominative (subject). island, common, neuter, third, singular, nominative (predicate). John's, proper, masculine, third, singular, possessive. Clarence, proper, masculine, third, singular, objective (object of bit). Helen, proper, feminine, second, singular, nominative absolute (direct address). Corrections: brothers-in-law; phenomena; chimneys; Shakers; Did you attend Mr. Chance's lecture?; I called at Coleman the jeweler's; her sister Mary's book; The boy's coat (or boys'); Johnsons; men's; quartos and folios.

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