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SECONDARY EDUCATION.
If any Candidates are to be presented in any other extra subjects not
naentioned in the note dated 31st of May, special application must be
made to the Department without delay. The examination in such
subjects will be held on the 26th of June.
Where it is desired, a separate Certificate will be issued in Arithmetic.
Scotch Education Department,
4th June 1888.
LEAVING CERTIFICATE, 1888.
Examination Papers.
ENGLISH.
Lower Grade.
Friday, 22nd June. 10 a.m. to 12.
Ten questions only to be attempted, of which at least one must be in
Section II., and one in Section III.
Section I.
1. Write out and punctuate the passage read for dictation.
2. Paraphrase the following lines into correct and grammatical prose :
“ Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey
The rich man’s joys increase, the poor’s decay,
’Tis yours to judge how wide the limits stand
Between a splendid and a happy land.
Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted oi-e,
And shouting folly hails them from her shore;
Hoards, even beyond the miser’s wish, abound,
And rich men flock from all the world around.
Yet count our gains. This wealth is but a name,
That leaves our useful .product still the same.”
3. Give some rules for grammatical analysis ; and analyse the
following:
“The general reproach with which ignorance revenges the
superciliousness of learning is that of pedantry; a censure
which every man incurs who has at any time the misfortune to
talk to those who cannot understand him, and by which the
modest and timorous are sometimes frighted from the display of
their acquisitions and the exertion of their powers.”
4. Explain the terms : Voice, Mood and Tense; and distinguish be¬
tween weak and strong conjugations.
5. State the various formations of the plural in English, and explain
the origin of each.
6. State the meaning and derivation of the suffixes in the following
words : Business, Only, Orchard, Nostril, Kingdom, Worship,
Every.
7. Give the derivations of the following words : Rather, Judge, School,
Moralist, Victuals, Monk, Heresy, Fiction, Poet, History, Philo¬
sophy, Government, Secure, Burgh, Town, Sheriff, Mayor.