EXERCISE.

Select the qualifying adjectives in the following sentences, and state the nouns they qualify:—

1.	A wise man considers his words.
2.	Gentle, loving Nell was dead.
3.	Her sleep was beautiful and calm.
4.	Wonderful animals are to be seen in African forests.
5.	With a slow and noiseless footstep
	Comes that messenger divine.—Longfellow.
6.	Like other dull men, the king was all his life suspicious of superior people.—Thackeray.
7.	O Caledonia! stern and wild,
	Meet nurse for a poetic child!
	Land of brown heath and shaggy wood,
	Land of the mountain and the flood.—Scott.

LESSON XXX.

ADJECTIVES OF QUANTITY.

Point out the adjectives in the following sentences, that express the quantity or number of the objects named by the nouns with which they are used:—

1.	This man has little strength left.
2.	I wish you much success in your studies.
3.	There are three boys in the yard.

Adjectives that express the quantity or number of the objects named by the nouns with which they are used, are called quantifying adjectives; as, He won the second prize.

EXERCISE.