METHODS OF TEACHING. EXERCISE. Write three sentences similar to 1; three similar to 2; to 3; to 4. Exchange and correct errors in spelling, punctuation, capitals, and construction. EXERCISE. Write two sentences similar to 1; two similar to 2; to 3; to 4; to 5. Exchange, report, and correct. 3. Sentence-making. Write, with each of the following nouns for a subject, a sentence having a predicate consisting of the verb is with a noun in the predicate nominative: Model.-Arabia is a peninsula. 1. The earth. 4. Italy. 7. Russia. 10. Arizona. 2. Greenland. 5. The United States. 8. Germany. 11. Vesuvius. 3. Arabia. 6. New York. 9. Australia. 12. The Sahara. 4. Sentence-making. EXERCISE I. With each of the following nouns write the verb is or are and a noun in the predicate nominative: Model.-The bee is an insect. 1. The bee. 4. Horses. 2. The snake. 3. The oyster. 5. Robins. EXERCISE II. With each of the preceding nouns put a predicate adjective, instead of a predicate nominative. Model. The bee is busy. EXERCISE III. Make a sentence with each of the nouns under 4 by stating that each does something. Model. The bee makes honey. 5. The Enlarged Subject. The subject may be enlarged in various ways-thus: EXERCISE II. Change each of the sentences that you wrote under the preceding exercise into a sentence with an adjective phrase, similar to 3. Model.-The nest of the birds was built in the tree. METHODS OF TEACHING. EXERCISE III. With each of the following nouns write a sentence hav ing a noun in apposition: Model.-Dickens, the great novelist, is dead. 1. Smith 4. Burns 7. Washington 2. Milton 5. Whittier 8. Cicero 3. Dickens 6. Fulton EXERCISE IV. 9. Daniel Webster With each of the preceding nouns write a sentence having the verb is or was and a predicate nominative. Model.-Dickens was a great novelist. EXERCISE V. With each of the following nouns write a sentence having the subject enlarged by an adjective phrase: Model.-The flowers of the field are beautiful. 1. The flowers 2. The birds 3. The squirrels 6. The Predicate Enlarged. The predicate of a simple sentence may be enlarged in various ways-thus: EXERCISE I. Write with each of the following subjects a sentence having the predicate nominative enlarged by an adjective and an adjective phrase: Model.—The Amazon is the largest river on the globe. Complete the following sets of sentences by adding adverbial phrases that answer the questions where? when? how? Ask your parents about anything you do not know. Model.-Cotton grows [where?] in the Southern states. 1. Birds fly 2. Coffee grows 3. Tea grows 4. The Missouri rises 5. We export grain 6. Silk is obtained 7. Gold is found 8. Coal is found EXERCISE III. Model.-Plymouth was settled [when?] in 1620. 1. Plymouth was settled 2. Jamestown was settled 3. America was discovered 4. My birthday will come METHODS OF TEACHING. EXERCISE V.-ADVERBIAL PHRASES OF CAUSE. Complete the following sentences by adding phrases denoting cause, making use of the prepositions by, through, for, of, from, etc. : Model.-Waves are caused by winds. 1. Day and night 2. The seasons are caused 3. They perished 4. He suffered 5. The money was given 6. He became sick EXERCISE VI.-ADVERBIAL PHRASES OF PURPOSE. In completing the following sentences, make use of the prepositions or phrases such as for, in order to, for the purpose of, for the sake of; or of an infinitive. Models.-1. We eat to live. 2. We eat for pleasure. 1. We live 2. We went 3. They study 4. The boys ran away 5. They went to Europe 6. He went to California 7. The Enlarged Predicate Again. In a simple sentence the predicate may be enlarged by two or more phrases-thus: "We went (1) into the woods (2) with a gun. EXERCISES. Complete the following expressions by adding two or more phrases. Exchange and correct: 1. The sun rises 2. The brook is running 3. I was born 4. I live 5. The Amazon flows 6. The steamer sailed 8. Order of Phrases. When a sentence contains two or more adverbial |