Graded Lessons in English Part 27

Pure water is dest.i.tute of color.

Pure water is dest.i.tute of taste.

Pure water is dest.i.tute of smell.

Cicero was the greatest orator of his age.

Demosthenes was the greatest orator of his age.

Daisies peeped up here.

Daisies peeped up there.

Daisies peeped up everywhere.

Expand each of the following sentences into three.

The English language is spoken in England, Canada, and the United States.

The Missouri, Ohio, and Arkansas rivers are branches of the Mississippi.

Out of the four following sentences, build one sentence having three explanatory modifiers.

+Model+.--Elizabeth was _the daughter of Henry VIII_.

Elizabeth was _sister of Queen Mary_.

Elizabeth was _the patron of literature_.

Elizabeth defeated the Armada.

Elizabeth, _the daughter of Henry VIII., sister of Queen Mary, and the patron of literature_, defeated the Armada.

Boston is the capital of Ma.s.sachusetts.

Boston is the Athens of America.

Boston is the "Hub of the Universe."

Boston has crooked streets.

Expand the following sentence into four sentences.

Daniel Webster, the great jurist, the expounder of the Const.i.tution, and the chief of the "American Triumvirate," died with the words, "I still live," on his lips.

LESSON 68.

SENTENCE-BUILDING.

+To the Teacher+.--For additional exercises in composition, see Notes, pp.

176-180.

Change the following simple sentences into complex sentences by expanding the phrases into adjective clauses.

+Model+.--People _living in gla.s.s houses_ shouldn't throw stones.

People _who live in gla.s.s houses_ shouldn't throw stones.

Those living in the Arctic regions need much oily food.

A house built upon the rock will stand.

The boy of studious habits will always have his lesson.

Wellington was a man of iron will.

Change the following complex sentences into simple sentences by contracting the adjective clauses into phrases.

Much of the cotton which is raised in the Gulf States is exported.

The house which was built upon the sand fell.

A thing which is beautiful is a joy forever.

Aaron Burr was a man who had fascinating manners.

Change the following simple sentences into complex sentences by expanding the phrases into adverb clauses.

+Model+.--Birds return _in the spring_.

_When spring comes_, the birds return.

The dog came at call. In old age our senses fail.

Change the following complex sentences into simple sentences by contracting the adverb clauses into phrases.

The ship started when the tide was at flood.

When he reached the middle of his speech, he stopped.

By supplying noun clauses, make complete sentences out of the following expressions.

---- is a well-known fact.

The fact was ----.

Ben. Franklin said ----.

LESSON 69.

GENERAL REVIEW.

What is a letter? Give the name and the sound of each of the letters in the three following words: _letters, name, sound_. Into what cla.s.ses are letters divided? Define each cla.s.s. Name the vowels. What is a word? What is artificial language? What is English Grammar? What is a sentence? What is the difference between the two expressions, _ripe apples_ and _apples are ripe_? What two parts must every sentence have? Define each. What is the a.n.a.lysis of a sentence? What is a diagram? What are parts of speech?

How many parts of speech are there? Give an example of each. What is a noun? What is a verb? What must every predicate contain? What is a p.r.o.noun?

What is a modifier? What is an adjective? What adjectives are sometimes called articles? When is _a_ used? When is _an_ used? Ill.u.s.trate. Give an example of one modifier joined to another. What is an adverb? What is a phrase? What is a preposition? What is a conjunction? What is an interjection? Give four rules for the use of capital letters (Lessons 8, 15, 19, 87). Give two rules for the use of the period, one for the exclamation point, and one for the interrogation point (Lessons 8, 37, 63).

LESSON 70.

GENERAL REVIEW.

What is an object complement? What is an attribute complement? How does a participle differ from a predicate verb? Ill.u.s.trate. What offices does an infinitive phrase perform? Ill.u.s.trate. How are sentences cla.s.sified with respect to form? Give an example of each cla.s.s. What is a simple sentence?

What is a clause? What is a dependent clause? What is an independent clause? What is a complex sentence? What is a compound sentence? How are sentences cla.s.sified with respect to meaning? Give an example of each cla.s.s. What is a declarative sentence? What is an interrogative sentence?

What is an imperative sentence? What is an exclamatory sentence? What different offices may a noun perform? Ans.--_A noun may be used as a subject, as an object complement, as an attribute complement, as a possessive modifier, as an explanatory modifier, as the princ.i.p.al word in a prepositional phrase, and it may be used independently_. Ill.u.s.trate each use. What are sometimes subst.i.tuted for nouns? _Ans.--p.r.o.nouns, phrases, and clauses_. Ill.u.s.trate. What is the princ.i.p.al office of a verb? What offices may be performed by a phrase? What, by a clause? What, different offices may an adjective perform? What parts of speech may connect clauses?

_Ans.--Conjunctions, adverbs, and p.r.o.nouns_. (See Lessons 62, 59, and 57.) Give rules for the use of the comma (Lessons 37, 54, 57). Give and ill.u.s.trate the directions for using adjectives and adverbs, for placing phrases, for using prepositions, and for using negatives (Lessons 40, 41).