Part 7 (1/2)

LESSON 17.

Select and write all the verbs in the sentences given in Lessons 28, 31, 34, and tell why they are verbs.

LESSON 18.

SENTENCE-BUILDING.

From the following nouns and verbs, build as many sentences as possible, taking care that every one makes good sense.

Poems, was conquered, lambs, rebellion, stars, forests, shone, were seen, were written, treason, patriots, meteors, fought, were discovered, frisk, Cain, have fallen, fled, stream, have crumbled, day, ages, deer, are flickering, are bounding, gleamed, voices, lamps, rays, were heard, are gathering, time, death, friends, is coming, will come.

+To the Teacher+.--Before this recitation closes, let the teacher open up the subject of Lesson 19. See ”Hints for Oral Instruction.”

LESSON 19.

p.r.o.nOUNS.

+Hints for Oral Instruction+.--We propose to introduce you now to the _third part of speech_. +T.--+If I should ask who whispered, and some boy should promptly confess, what would he say? +P.--+_I_ whispered.

+T.--+Would he mention his own name? +P.--+No. +T.--+What word would he use instead? +P.--+_I_.

+T.--+Suppose that I had _spoken to_ that boy and had accused him of whispering, how should I have addressed him without mentioning his name?

+P.--+_You_ whispered. +T.--+What word would be used instead of the name of the boy _to_ whom I spoke? +P.--+_You_.

+T.--+Suppose that, without using his name, I had told you what he did, what should I have said? +P.--+_He_ whispered. +T.--+What word would have been used instead of the name of the boy _of_ whom I spoke? +P.--+_He_.

(Repeat these questions and suppose the pupil to be a girl.)

+T.--+If I should tell that boy to close his book, when his book was already closed, what would he say without mentioning the word book?

+P.--+_It_ is closed.

+T.--+If I should accuse several of you of whispering, and one should speak for himself and for the others whispering with him, what would he say? _We_ whispered.

+T--+Suppose that a boy should inform me that all of the boys on that seat had whispered, what would he say? +P.--+_They_ whispered.

_I, you, he, she, it, we_, and _they_ are not names, but they are used instead of names. We call such words +p.r.o.nouns+.

+DEFINITION.--A _p.r.o.noun_ is a word used for a noun+.

+CAPITAL LETTERS--RULE.--The words _I_ and _O_ should be written in capital letters+.

a.n.a.lysis and Parsing.

+Model.--+_You will be rewarded_.

+Oral a.n.a.lysis--+This is a sentence, because----; _you_ is the subject, because----; _will be rewarded_ is the predicate, because----.

+Parsing.--+_You_ is a _p.r.o.noun_, because it stands for the name of the person spoken to; _will be rewarded_ is a verb, because----.