Part 26 (1/2)

+DEFINITION.--An _Imperative Sentence_ is one that expresses a command or an entreaty+.

+DEFINITION.--An _Exclamatory Sentence_ is one that expresses sudden thought or strong feeling+.

+INTERROGATION POINT--RULE.--Every direct interrogative sentence should be followed by an interrogation point+. [Footnote: To The Teacher.--See Notes, pp. 178, 179.]

SENTENCE-BUILDING.

Change each of the following declarative sentences into three interrogative sentences, and tell how the change was made.

+Model+.--_Girls can skate. Can girls skate? How can girls skate? What girls can skate?_ You are happy. Parrots can talk. Low houses were built.

Change each of the following into an imperative sentence. Notice that independent words are set off by the comma.

+Model+.--_Carlo eats his dinner. Eat your dinner, Carlo_. George plays the flute. Birdie stands on one leg.

Change each of the following into exclamatory sentences.

+Model+.--_You are happy. How happy you are! What a happy child you are!

You are so happy!_

Time flies swiftly. I am glad to see you. A refres.h.i.+ng shower fell. Lapland is a cold country. It is hot between the tropics.

Write a declarative, an interrogative, an imperative, and an exclamatory sentence on each of the following topics.

Weather, lightning, a stage coach.

LESSON 64.

a.n.a.lYSIS AND PARSING.

MISCELLANEOUS EXERCISES IN REVIEW.

In the a.n.a.lysis, cla.s.sify these sentences first with reference to their _form_, and then with reference to their _meaning_.

1. Wickedness is often made a subst.i.tute for wit.

2. Alfred was a brave, pious, and patriotic prince.

3. The throne of Philip trembles while Demosthenes speaks.

4. That the whole is equal to the sum of its parts is an axiom.

5. The lion belongs to the cat tribe, but he cannot climb a tree.

6. Pride is a flower that grows in the devil's garden.

7. Of all forms of habitation, the simplest is the burrow.

8. When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice.

9. When the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.

10. Ca.s.sius, be not deceived. [Footnote: _Ca.s.sius_ is independent, and may be diagramed like an interjection. The subject of _be deceived_ is _thou_, or _you_, understood.]

11. How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, how wonderful is man!