In parsing nouns, what is the first particular to be named ?" "What the noun is from." "Yes; that is, its nominative.

Now you may write, at the head of the first column, the word _Nouns_, and at the head of the second, _Nom._, for nominative.

Then rule a line for the third column.

What shall this contain!" "The declension." "Yes; and the fourth ?" "Gender." "The fifth ?" "Number." In the same manner the other columns were designated.

The sixth was to contain case; the seventh, the word with which the noun was connected in construction; and the eighth, a reference to the rule.
"Now I wish you," continued the teacher, "to fill up such a table as this with _ten_ nouns.