1874-1875 School Committee Report

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22 23 4. Write a bill of three items, with proper punctuation and use of capitals. 5. Write the opposite numbers of the following 5. Write a promissory note for $250 due in eight months, Mr. Wife. Mouse-trap. at 8 per cent., and find the amount to be paid at the*time of `ys Miss. Thief. Brother-in-law. settlement. Dr. Knives. Spoonful. 6. Reduce 15, 23, 3 Of 5, and 6 to the least common �` rt Sheep. Ge111US. Alumni. denominator; and show why their values are not changed. Deer. Index. Momenta. 7. What is the value of a pile of wood eight rods long, Measles. Potatoes. Stratum. four feet wide, and two yards high, at $6.75 per cord ? 6. Write the opposite gender of the following nouns : — 8, If I have a rectangular field which borders on the Queen. Widow. Lioness. street 480 feet, how far back must it extend to contain 4 Hero. Wife. Executor. acres? Cousin. Actor. Gander. p. An agent receives $312 to purchase oats at 30 cts. per Lady. bushel, after deducting his commission, which was 4 per I 7. Correct the following, with proper punctuation and cent. on the sum paid for the oats. How many bushels did _ proper use of capitals, and give your reasons for the correc- he buy ? tions :— 10. On a note for $3,500, at 7 per cent., there is interest Alexander the great conquered a great part of asia. due for one year and six months. How much gold,at a pre- If any one asks for me, tell them that I am out. mium of 34 per cent.,will be required to discharge the note? It is me. 11. If 4l glObe 4 117CheS In diameter tivelghs 9 lbs., what 1s A foreimner having• fallen into the thames cried out I will the weight of a globe 8 inches in diameter? Why. be drowned nobody shall help me. 12. Multiply the squire root of 0.173056 by the cube I knew he had wrote it for it was well writ. root of 3 T6 8. Those sort of people are always complaining. GRAMMAR. I seen him when he'done it. Whom do you think it was. 1. `'rite three seratentes,—one in which a statement is Every person has their faults? made, one in which a command is given, .and one which asks Can you learn me to write. a question. What is each called? 2. Write a sentence in which the infinitive is used as a He laid abed till breakfast.Lay down and rest. subject, and one in which it is used as the object. Can you not do nothing. 3. What verbs may have a passive form? How is the The music was awfully gorgeous. passive voice formed? Write a sentence containing a verb The p ground is all froze over. in the: passive. a. O' 9 f „ We admire Longfellow s the poets genius. 4. Give a synopsis of the verb sit through all the moods g. What parts of speech are inflected, and for what pu, and tenses, using the third person singular, poses?