Canterbury Provincial Gazette – 1875 – No. 32

Page 244

✨ Education Examination Questions



  1. In what respect does the inflexion of the subjunctive or conditional mood differ from
    that of the indicative?

  2. What auxiliary verbs are used to form the Potential Mood? If the auxiliary in this
    case be regarded as in the Indicative Mood, what must be the mood of the principal
    verb?

  3. Parse the verbs in this sentence:—If I were to write more slowly I could write better.

  4. To what part of speech does each of the italicised words in the following sentences
    belong:—

(a) I can but weep.
(b) There is no one in the house but me.
(c) He is not ready, but I am.
(d) I know that very well.
(e) I know that I am ignorant.
(f) I know that that is wrong.
(g) The judge standeth before the door.
(h) I had heard that before.

  1. Write a sentence containing the verb “to suffer” in the active voice, and one with the
    verb “to do” in the passive voice.

  2. Name the tenses of the following verbs:—(a) I love. (b) Thou knewest. (c) It has
    been broken. Write the conjugation of the verb “to shake” in the 1st, 2nd, and
    3rd persons, singular and plural, of the forms represented by a, b, c, in this question.

  3. Write not less than twenty-five lines on “Winter.” (Suggestions.—Causes, Phenomena,
    Duration, Occupations.)

  4. Write a passage dictated by the Examiner.

GEOGRAPHY.

Class C.

  1. What is meant by latitude and longitude? Are degrees of latitude and longitude
    always of the same length? What countries have about the same latitude as
    England?

  2. What are the two largest rivers in England? Through what counties do they pass,
    and what towns are situated on their banks?

  3. Trace the course of a vessel sailing from Liverpool to Odessa. What cargo would it
    be likely to carry back from thence?

  4. How is Spain bounded? What are its chief towns, rivers, and foreign possessions?

  5. Draw an outline of the east and south coasts of England, marking the divisions of the
    counties, and the principal headlands, river-mouths, and seaports.

  6. What groups of islands are attached to New Zealand? What is the distance between
    New Zealand and Australia? Draw on a small scale a rough map showing their
    relative positions.

  7. Within what degrees does Australia lie? What part is within the tropics? Where
    are Ballarat, Geelong, the Darling Downs, the Murray, the Lachlan, Port Darwin,
    Kangaroo Island, Brisbane?



Next Page →



Online Sources for this page:

VUW Te Waharoa — PDF Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1875, No 32




✨ LLM interpretation of page content

🎓 Grammar Examination Questions (continued from previous page)

🎓 Education, Culture & Science
Grammar, Parsing, Word Usage, Sentence Construction

🎓 Geography Examination Questions

🎓 Education, Culture & Science
Geography, Latitude, Longitude, Rivers, Maps