Higher Lessons in English Part 24

TO THE TEACHER.----Where, in our directions in these Lessons on Arrangement and Contraction, we say _change, transpose_, or _restore_, the pupils need not write the sentences. They should study them and be able to read them.

Require them to show what the sentence has lost or gained in the change.

+Direction+.--_Change these sentences from the usual to the transposed order by moving words or phrases to the front, and explain the effect_:--

1. He could not avoid it.

2. They were pretty lads.

3. The great Queen died in the year 1603.

4. He would not escape.

5. I must go.

6. She seemed young and sad.

7. He cried, "My son, my son!"

8. He ended his tale here.

9. The moon shone bright.

10. A frozen continent lies beyond the sea.

11. He was a contentious man.

12. It was quoted so.

13. Monmouth had never been accused of cowardice.

+Direction+.--_Change these sentences from the transposed order to the usual, and explain the effect_:--

1. Him, the Almighty Power hurled headlong.

2. Volatile he was.

3. Victories, indeed, they were.

4. Of n.o.ble race the lady came.

5. Slowly and sadly we laid him down.

6. Once again we'll sleep secure.

7. This double office the participle performs.

8. That gale I well remember.

9. Churlish he often seemed.

10. One strong thing I find here below.

11. Overhead I heard a murmur.

12. To their will we must succ.u.mb.

13. Him they hanged.

14. Freely ye have received.

+Direction+.--_Write five sentences, each with one of the following nouns or adjectives as a complement; and five, each with one of the adverbs or phrases as predicate modifier; then transpose the ten with these same words moved to the front, and explain the effect_:--

Giant, character, happy, him, serene, often, in the market, long and deeply, then, under foot.

+Direction+.--_Transpose these sentences by placing the italicized words last, and note the effect_:--

1. The clouds lowering upon our house are _buried_ in the deep bosom of the ocean.

2. Aeneas did _bear_ from the flames of Troy upon his shoulder the old Anchises.

3. Such a heart _beats_ in the breast of my people.

4. The great fire _roared_ up the deep and wide chimney.

+Direction+.--_Change these to the usual order_:--

1. No woman was ever in this wild humor wooed and won.

2. Let a shroud, stripped from some privileged corpse, be, for its proper price, displayed.

3. An old clock, early one summer's morning, before the stirring of the family, suddenly stopped.

4. Treasures of gold and of silver are, in the deep bosom of the earth, concealed.

5. Ease and grace in writing are, of all the acquisitions made in school, the most difficult and valuable.

+Direction+.--_Write three sentences, each with the following noun or adjective or phrase in its usual place in the predicate, and then transpose, placing these words wherever they can properly go_:--

Mountains, glad, by and by.

LESSON 53.

ARRANGEMENT--TRANSPOSED ORDER.

+Direction+.--_Restore these sentences to their usual order by moving the object complement and the verb to their customary places, and tell what is lost by the change_:--

1. Thorns and thistles shall the earth bring forth.

2. "Exactly so," replied the pendulum.

3. Me restored he to mine office.

4. A changed France have we.

5. These evils hath sin wrought.

+Direction+.--_Transpose these sentences by moving the object complement and the verb, and tell what is gained by the change_:--

1. The dial-plate exclaimed, "Lazy wire!"

2. The maiden has such charms.

3. The English character has faults and plenty of them.

4. I will make one effort more to save you.

5. The king does possess great power.

6. You have learned much in this short journey.

+Direction+.--_Write six transposed sentences with these nouns as object complements, and then restore them to their usual order_:--

Pause, cry, peace, horse, words, gift.

+Direction+.--_Restore these sentences to their usual order by moving the attribute complement and the verb to their usual places, and tell what is lost by the change_:--

1. A dainty plant is the ivy green.

2. Feet was I to the lame.

3. A mighty man is he.

4. As a mark of respect was the present given.

5. A giant towered he among men.

+Direction+.--_Transpose these sentences by moving the attribute complement and the verb, and tell what is gained by the change_:--

1. We are merry brides.

2. Washington is styled the "Father of his Country."

3. He was a stark mosstrooping Scot.