Graded Lessons in Language
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ISBN13: 9780217217323
Paperback|9780217217323
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THIRD MONTH SUMMARY OF SUBJECTS Number of Lessons Verbs 3 Transitive Nouns 1 Plurals Pronouns 1 Possessive case Adjectives 2 Phrases and clauses Prepositions ... 1 Conjunctions 1 Use of adverbial conjunctions Sentence Structure 2 Clause as object of sentence Paragraph Structure ' . . 2 Nature of paragraph Composition ..'.... 8 At least two of the five language periods per week are to be given to constructive 'work in composit1on See suggestive program in appendix VERBS TRANSITIVE VERBS, OR VERBS USED WITH AN OBJECT The bird sang a beautiful song. In the sentence just given, one word of the five is peculiarly necessary; for, if it is left out, the meaning, purpose and connection of the sentence are lost. If we say, the bird?beautiful song; or a beautiful song?the bird, we may guess at the meaning, but none is expressed. This is because sang, the word that is omitted, is the word that tells, asserts or declares something. It tells what the bird did. The word in a sentence that tells, asserts or declares something is the verb. Sometimes two or three words are needed to tell the thought; then these two or three words taken together are the verb, as: The bird sings a beautiful song. The bird will sing a song. The bird has been singing a song. The bird will have been singing a song. The italicized words are the verbs. They are usually called the predicate, or the predicate verb, to distinguish them from any other verbs that may be in the sentence; for these are the verbs that assert (that predicate) something about the subject. In the following sentences find the predicate verbs; that is, the words that tell, assert or declare something about the subject: The teacher taught arithmetic. The butterfly fle...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217217323 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021721732X |
| Weight | 0.88 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.61 In |
| List Price | $20.03 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 268 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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