Graded Lessons in English Part 4

13. ---- flashes.

14. ---- flutters.

15. ---- paddle.

16. ---- toil.

17. ---- terrifies.

18. ---- rages.

19. ---- expand.

20. ---- jump.

21. ---- hop.

22. ---- bellow.

23. ---- burns.

24. ---- evaporates.

This exercise may profitably be extended by requiring the pupils to supply _several_ subjects to each predicate.

LESSON 9.

SENTENCE-BUILDING--Continued.

Construct sentences by supplying a _predicate_ to each of the following _subjects_.

Ask yourself the question, Artists do what?

1. Artists ----.

2. Sailors ----.

3. Tides ----.

4. Whales ----.

5. Gentlemen ----.

6. Swine ----.

7. Clouds ----.

8. Girls ----.

9. Fruit ----.

10. Powder ----.

11. Hail ----.

12. Foxes ----.

13. Water ----.

14. Frost ----.

15. Man ----.

16. Blood ----.

17. Kings ----.

18. Lilies ----.

19. Roses ----.

20. Wheels ----.

21. Waves ----.

22. Dew ----.

23. Boys ----.

24. Volcanoes ----.

25. Storms ----.

26. Politicians ----.

27. Serpents ----.

28. Chimneys ----.

29. Owls ----.

30. Rivers ----.

31. Nations ----.

32. Indians ----.

33. Grain ----.

34. Rogues ----.

34. Volcanoes ----.

35. Rome ----.

36. Briars ----.

This exercise may be extended by requiring the pupils to supply several predicates to each subject.

LESSON 10.

REVIEW QUESTIONS.

Of what two parts does a sentence consist? What is the subject of a sentence? What is the predicate of a sentence? What is the a.n.a.lysis of a sentence?

What is a diagram? What rule for the use of capital letters have you learned? What rule for the period?

Impromptu Exercise.

Let the pupils "choose sides," as in a spelling match. Let the teacher select _predicates_ from Lesson 8, and give them alternately to the pupils thus arranged. The first pupil prefixes to his word whatever suitable subjects he can think of, the teacher judging of their fitness and keeping the count. This pupil now rises and remains standing until some one else, on his side or the other, shall have prefixed to his word a greater number of apt subjects. The strife is to see who shall be standing at the close of the match, and which side shall have furnished the greater number of subjects. The exercise may be continued with the _subjects_ of Lesson 9.

Each pupil is to be limited to the same time--one or two minutes.

LESSON 11.

a.n.a.lYSIS.

The +_predicate_+ sometimes contains +_more than one word_+.

_a.n.a.lyze_ and _diagram_ according to the model.

+Model+.--_Socrates was poisoned_.

Socrates | was poisoned ============|================ |

This is a sentence, because it expresses a thought. _Socrates_ is the subject, because ----; _was poisoned_ is the predicate, because ----.

[Footnote: The word _because_--suggesting a reason--should be dropped from these "+Models+" whenever it may lead to mere mechanical repet.i.tion.]