LESSON 74 THE BUSINESS LETTER: A SUBSCRIPTION: 1. A Subscription. If you were promised a year's subscription to a magazine provided you wrote the order correctly, do you think you could do it? Edward Fairfax wrote this letter to show his father that he was able to order a magazine: 726 St. Charles Ave. New Orleans, La. Dec. 10, 1917 The Century Co. 353 Fourth Ave. New York, N. Y. Gentlemen: I am inclosing a money order for three dollars ($3.00) for a year's subscription to "St. Nicholas," beginning with the issue of January, 1918. Respectfully yours, Edward's sister wrote an order for a magazine. Before her name she wrote the title Miss inclosed in parentheses thus, (Miss) Margaret Fairfax. 2. Written Exercise. Write an order subscribing for some magazine. 3. An Order. Mrs. Stanton wrote a letter, ordering a pair of blankets. She was careful to state exactly the kind she wanted, so that there might be no mistake. Since she wished to pay for the blankets when she received them, she asked to have them sent C. O. D., which means collect on delivery. This is the letter she wrote: 379 Broad Ave. Oswego, N. Y. F. R. Henderson and Co. 214 Fifth Ave. New York, N. Y. Gentlemen: Please forward C. O. D. one pair of white wool blankets, with blue border and blue satin ribbon binding. Send the 70×80-inch size, which you advertise for ten dollars ($10.00). (Mrs. George F. Stanton) 4. Written Exercise. Yours truly, Anna M. Stanton Write to a drygoods store, ordering ten yards of white lawn to cost fifteen cents a yard. Ask the dealer to send C. O. D. LESSON 75-COMPOSITION Read the following selection and make a report, telling what birds remain all winter in your locality, and what birds could be encouraged to remain if provided with food. Report also upon any plans your city or any of its citizens may have for feeding the birds in winter, or for providing bird houses in summer. What do you do for the birds? FEED THE WINTER BIRDS This is the time of year when the members of the Audubon societies are urging people to feed the birds. There seems to be a belief in many places in the North that there are no birds in winter except the English sparrow, on whom no one wastes much sympathy in cold weather or in hot. We have many birds with us in winter and we can have them as neighbors if we will tempt them to become our familiars. Everybody blessed with land enough to make a back yard can gather feathered friends about him in winter if he will take the means to do it. A big piece of suet wired to the branch of a tree will bring nuthatches, chickadees, juncoes, woodpeckers, blue jays, kinglets, and half a dozen other species of birds to the board which is spread for them. The birds have some means of finding out quickly where the feast is prepared, and they will flock to it daily. The suet should be supplemented by a diet of grain. Cracked corn, wheat, and ordinary bird seed are favorite provender with most of our winter birds. A small open box half filled with grain will keep a dozen birds happy and well fed for a week. The man who is kind to the feathered folk is paid for his pains. In the course of the winter he will see birds that he never saw before. It may be that the American crossbill or the pine grosbeak in its flaming coat will come to warm his winter landscape for him. It costs little or nothing to feed the birds in winter, and they are good company. -The Chicago Evening Post. LESSON 76 COMPOSITION Write the report that you made in the preceding lesson. LESSON 77 - THE INTERJECTION: NEGATIVE STATEMENTS 1. Development. 1. Mary said, "O mother, how happy I am!" 2. "Ah! there you are," said the hunter. 3. "Hurrah!" said the boy, "It is snowing." The words 0, oh, ah, hurrah, pshaw, ha, alas, and some others are used to express sudden or strong feeling. These words do not modify any part of the sentence in which they are used. Such words are called interjections. Learn: A word used to express sudden or strong feeling, not connected in construction with the rest of the sentence, is called an interjection. Notice that words commonly used as other parts of speech may be used in exclamation. Examples: Run! they're after you. (Verb) Angry! I should say I am. (Adjective) Select the interjections in the following sentences: 1. Pshaw! I am sorry. 2. Oh! how you surprised me. 4. Ha ha! there you are. 6. Ah! he is coming at last. 2. Written Exercise. Write five sentences, using an interjection in each. Draw a line under each interjection. Tell the use of each word in your sentences. 3. Negative Statements. Repeat the following sentences to yourself several times and be prepared to take part in the rapid repetition of them in class, each member giving a sentence: 1. I have no book. 3. I have no pencil. 4. I have not a pencil. 5. I have no tablet. 6. I have not a tablet. Sentences like the above are called negative statements. The words no and not are sometimes called "negatives." 1. I have but five dollars. 2. I had only time to dress. 3. There was hardly enough for all. In such sentences as the above never use not, or contraction such as haven't, etc. "I have but five dollars means "I have not more than five dollars." It therefor expresses a negative meaning. What would "I haven' but five dollars" mean? You have already learned that the possession of something is shown by the apostrophe and s. You have had much practice in the change that is made in the form of nouns to show possession. To a singular noun, you remember, we add an apostrophe and s; to a plural that already ends in s, we add merely an apostrophe. The forms thus made the forms that show possession - are the only variations of case-form that are now used in English nouns. In Latin, German, and other languages this case is called the genitive; and for the sake of uniformity in terms it is best to call it the genitive in English |