Part 17 (1/2)

7 They _choose_ Mr W to be their chairman

8 The enemy _come_ in force

9 The boys _dive_ three ti_ the cows out of the corn

11 The boys _are eating_ their supper

12 An absconding cashi+er _flees_ to Canada

13 A robin _flies_ to the vines by my

14 The Ohio river _overflows_ its banks

15 The water in ets_ along fairly well

18 They _go_ by steas_ the condes_ up my cloak

21 I _lie_ on the couch twenty minutes to rest

22 Traate

23 Boys _lay_ traps for hares

24 They _lay_ burdens on reater than I can bear

25 They _plead_ their cause well

26 This _proves_ the truth of my assertion

27 He _rides_ alone from Litchfield to Waterbury 28 A mist _rises_ before my eye

29 I _see_ the President often

30 I _set_ the la politics

32 Rab _shakes_ the little dog by the neck

33 He _is shoeing_ uilt

35 He _speaks_ his declamation well

36 They _slay_ their prisoners

37 He _stole_ my watch

38 Some one _takes_ my hat

39 He _throws_ cold water on my plan

40 He _writes_ hoht by his restlessness

NOTE--If the teacher thinks that the class needs more drill of this kind, Exercises xxxVIII and xxxIX ed to perfect or passive forms; the verbs in xxxIX

to the past tense If this is done, sohtly recast In the next exercise drill on the same forms is continued in a different way

EXERCISE XL

_Insert the proper for sentences:--_

AWAKE, WAKE

1 I--at six o'clock this ; I have--at about the same time ever since I ca--to find himself famous A certain Mr Peck--one day last week to find that the _Nation_ had o Mr Michael Dixon was--by a burglar in his bedroom

4 He--me an hour before time

5 Have you--your brother?

6 He--as I opened the door