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4. Exercise strengthens.

5. Rain falls.

6. Time flies.

7. Rowdies fight.

8. Bread nourishes.

9. Boats capsize.

10. Water flows.

11. Students learn.

12. Horses gallop.

LESSON 7.

a.n.a.lYSIS AND THE DIAGRAM.

+Hints for Oral Instruction+.--I will draw on the board a heavy, or shaded, line, and divide it into two parts, thus:

We will consider the first part as the sign of the _subject_ of a sentence, and the second part as the sign of the _predicate_ of a sentence.

Now, if I write a word over the first line, thus--(doing it)--you will understand that that word is the subject of a sentence. If I write a word over the second line, thus--you will understand that that word is the predicate of a sentence.

Planets | revolve ============|=========== |

The cla.s.s can see by this picture that _Planets revolve_ is a sentence, that _planets_ is the subject, and that _revolve_ is the predicate.

These signs, or ill.u.s.trations, made up of straight lines, we call +Diagrams+.

+DEFINITION.--A _Diagram_ is a picture of the offices and relations of the different parts of a sentence+.

_a.n.a.lyze_ and _diagram_ the following sentences.

1. Waves dash.

2. Kings reign.

3. Fruit ripens.

4. Stars s.h.i.+ne.

5. Steel tarnishes.

6. Insects buzz.

7. Paul preached.

8. Poets sing.

9. Nero fiddled.

10. Larks sing.

11. Water ripples.

12. Lambs frisk.

13. Lions roar.

14. Tigers growl.

15. Breezes sigh.

16. Carthage fell.