EXERCISE FOR THE SLATE. ing blanks with a noun Fill each of the follow first, so as to show what is said; and, second, so as to distinguish what one : Henry the carpenter. Henry is the carpenter. Mr. Lane the Mr. Lane is the The pine a Fill the following blanks with nouns. Tell which nouns show what object is spoken of, — which with "is" show what is said,-and which distinguish what one is meant: Put these nouns into sentences of your own: Strawberries, peaches, sheep, doves, boys. LESSON VI. Read your examples from the slate. How many sentences are there? What word have you used to distinguish which 'George' is meant? Explain the examples as directed in the last Lesson. Now, what is this? Ans.-An orange. How does it taste? Ans.-Sweet. What word shall I write to express the quality sweet? Ans.-The word sweet. Now, where is the word sweet? Where do you find the quality itself? Which can you speak? Which can you taste? Which can you write? Which is the quality itself, and which is the qualityword, or name of the quality? The quality-word, or name of the quality, is called an Adjective. What, then, is the word sweet called? What is the shape of the orange? Ans.-Round. What do you call the word round? What do you call the shape itself? Ans.-A quality. Which can you speak, the quality or the qualityword? Which can you feel? What is the color of the orange? Which is the quality? Which is the adjective? What other qualities has the orange? What kind of orange is it? Is it ripe, or unripe? Large or small? Hard or soft? What do you call these quality-words? What do they show? Ans.-The qualities of the orange, or, what kind of orange it is. What kind of word is orange ? Is peach an object-word or a quality-word? Is it a noun or an adjective? Tell whether each one of the following words is a Write, in columns, adjectives for all the qualities you can think of in an apple, a rose, a sponge. Write also, in columns, the names of objects which have these qualities: Bright. NOTE. The Teacher will do well to show the class how to discover the qualities of objects. Thus: he can take any object, and tell the children to look at it, and see whether it is long or short, thick or thin, old or new, large or small, round or square, &c., &c. He can let them feel it, and thus determine whether it is rough or smooth, hot or cold, hard or soft, &c. He can ask, "How does it smell?" "How does it taste?" "Can you hear it?" "What kind of sound does it produce?" In this way an almost infinite variety of adjectives will be suggested. LESSON VII. How many of you have written qualities? In these examples is anything said or affirmed? + An adjective alone can never say or affirm anything of an object. How many have written objects? How many have written nouns? What nouns have you for objects containing the quality bright? The quality smooth? The quality soft? The quality sour? The quality beautiful? The quality blue? Is anything said of each? What quality belongs to the object sugar? Ans.The quality sweet. Then, what object-word should the quality-word sweet belong to? Ans.-The object-word or noun sugar. Then Adjectives are joined or added to nouns. How can we join the adjective sweet to the noun sugar, so as to show what is said or affirmed of the sugar? Ans. Thus: "Sugar is sweet." Is this a sentence? Why? What is the subject? What kind of word is it a noun or an adjective? What is the predicate-that is, what shows what is said of the sugar? What kind of word is 'is'? What kind of word is sweet? Then An adjective joined to a noun with 'is' or 'are' may stand as the predicate of a sentence. Point out the predicates in the following examples: The sun is bright. The knife is sharp. Snow is white. Grapes are delicious. Are these examples sentences? Why? Take away the verb, and are they sentences? (See Lesson V.) What is the subject in each sentence? Point out the nouns. Point out the adjectives. EXERCISE FOR THE SLATE. Write sentences containing the following adjectives: - Glassy, yellow, thin, dark, shrill, mellow, hard, brittle. Fill the blanks in the following examples, and state which of the words inserted are nouns, and which are adjectives: The violet is The butterfly is The clouds are The lizard is a LESSON VIII. NOTE. At each new Lesson, the last should be reviewed, and the slate exercise carefully examined. Name the nouns in these examples : Tall pines. Brave men. Ripe berries. Golden clouds. |