Are these examples sentences? Why not? What kind of pines are mentioned? Of men? Of berries? Of clouds? To what are tall, brave, ripe, and golden added? What do they show? What kind of words are they? Then An adjective may be added to a noun to show what kind, but the words do not form a sentence. Name the nouns in the following sentences:- Those boys are sick. Young children are playful. Name the adjectives. Which adjectives show what is said? Which show what kind? Do those and third show what kind? What do they show? Are they quality-words? Words which do not express quality, if added to nouns, are adjectives. EXERCISE FOR THE SLATE. Insert adjectives to fill the following blanks, thus: Smooth glass. The glass is smooth. clouds. The clouds are ice. The ice is peaches. The peaches are Point out the nouns. Point out the adjectives. Which show what kind? Which show what is said? Which of the examples are sentences. How do you know a sentence? (See Lesson IV.) Insert adjectives in the following blacks, the first to show what kind, the second to show what is said, thus: Ripe pine-apples are delicious. trees are child is books are LESSON IX. He is walk- What is Robert doing yonder? Ans. ing. Then, he is performing an action. shall we write for this action? Ans. walking. Now, where is the word walking? Ans.On the board. Where is the walking itself, or the action walking? Ans.-Yonder, where Robert is. Which can you speak, the action or the actionword? Point out the action-words in the following examples : The horse is running. The birds are flying. The dog is barking. The snow is falling. The bells are ringing. Are these examples scntences? What is the subject in each? Why? What is the predicate? Point out the verb? Then, like the adjective An action-word with the verb 'is' or 'are' may stand as the predicate. Take away the verb 'is' or 'are' from the examples above. Is anything said or affirmed now? Are they sentences? Place the action-word before the noun, thus:: tences? Then, like the adjective The action-word may be added to a noun to express what kind, but the words do not form a sentence. Alter the above examples. thus: FIRST FORM. The horse is running. The snow is falling. The bells are ringing. SECOND FORM. The horse runs. The snow The bells What is said of horse in the first form? What in the second? What is the action-word in the first? What in the second? What says or affirms the action in the first form? What in the second? An action-word may have two forms affirm or say something; the other cannot. That which affirms is called the VERB. Then one can That which does not affirm is called the PARTICIPLE, it being partly verb and partly adjective. Name the verbs in the examples above. Name the participles. How are they formed? EXERCISE FOR THE SLATE. Insert participles in the following blanks-first, so as to show what is said; and second, so as to show what kind:: Studies, plays, reading, gliding, drinks, sitting, stands. LESSON X. Trees grow. What grow? What is said of trees? Is the example a sentence? Why? What is the subject? What is the predicate? How many words in the predicate? What kind of word is it? Then A verb alone may stand as a predicate. Can a participle alone stand as predicate? Can a noun? Can an adjective? Is an action-word always a verb? Is a verb always an action-word? Tell the verbs in the following examples: The tree stands. The child sleeps. The boys sit. Are they action-words? Ans.-They are not; they merely express state. Then Any word which of itself affirms something, whether an action-word or not, is a verb. Tell the verbs, participles, nouns, and adjectives, in the following examples: A good time is coming. The tall oak bends. The winter is cold. The evening is dark. The rising sun is bright. The bright planet is setting. When the participle is preceded by 'is' or 'are,' the two words taken together are commonly called the verb; as, "is coming," "is setting." EXERCISE FOR THE SLATE. Fill these blanks the first three with participles-the second three with verbs:: |