Answer the following questions, using complete sentences: 1. When did you sing this exercise? 2. Has he ever sung "Home, Sweet Home"? 3. Have you sung any songs today? 4. When did you last sing this song? 8. Have you sung this exercise before? 9. Why did the audience rise when the "Star Spangled Banner" was sung? 10. Did you stand when you sang "America"? Be prepared to ask your classmates any of these questions and to judge the correctness of their answers. LESSON 135 EACH OTHER AND ONE ANOTHER 1. Development. 1. Hiawatha and Chibiabos loved each other. 2. Children should be kind to one another. Each other and one another are used instead of nouns and are therefore pronouns. They indicate mutual action or relation between the persons or things named by the plural antecedent, and are called reciprocal pronouns. Each other is used when two persons or things are meant; one another, when more than two are meant. Classify the pronouns in the following sentences and tell how each is used. Select the adjectives and tell how each is used. 1. Tom and Maggie loved each other. 2. Help one another. 3. They promised to be true to one another. 4. David and Jonathan were faithful to each other. 5. What did they do? 6. I know what they did. 7. That is my book. 8. That book is mine. 9. It is the best story that I ever read. 10. Hiawatha, Chibiabos, and Kwasind loved one another. 11. Each boy played his part well in the game. 2. Written Exercise. Write four sentences that contain each other and one another. LESSON 136 SUBJECT AND PREDICATE: THE PARTS OF SPEECH Tell the subject and the predicate, and the principal word of each, in each clause of the following sentences. Tell what part of speech each word is and give its use in the sentence. 1. Two good friends had Hiawatha. 2. Hiawatha had two good friends, Chibiabos and Kwasind. 3. Chibiabos, the musician, was dear to Hiawatha. 4. Very dear, too, was Kwasind, the strong man. 5. Straight between them ran the pathway. 6. Never grew the grass upon it. 7. Mischief-makers, that utter falsehoods, could not make trouble between them. 8. Chibiabos, the friend of Hiawatha, was the sweetest of all singers. 9. He was stately as a deer with antlers. 10. Beautiful and childlike was he. LESSON 137 STORY TELLING Time yourself as you read silently the following story about the early Dutch settlers of New York. Tell the story; then read it again silently, timing yourself as before. Retell the story, trying to tell it more accurately than you did the first time. Avoid the "and" habit. HOW THE DUTCH MEASURED TIME The journal of each meeting consisted of but two lines stating in Dutch that "the council sat this day, and smoked twelve pipes, on the affairs of the colony."-By which it appears that the first settlers did not regulate their time by hours, but pipes, in the same manner as they measure distances in Holland at this very time; an admirably exact measurement, as a pipe in the mouth of a true-born Dutchman is never liable to those accidents and irregularities that are continually putting our clocks out of order. It is said, moreover, that a regular smoker was appointed as council clock, whose duty was to sit at the elbow of the president and smoke incessantly; every puff marked a division of time as exactly as a second-hand, and the knocking out of the ashes of his pipe was equivalent to striking the hour. -Washington Irving. LESSON 138 -CLASS COMPOSITION Be prepared to take part with other members of the class in telling the story "How the Dutch Measured Time" as a class composition. Dictate the sentences one by one to your teacher, so that she may write them on the board. Follow the suggestions for class composition given in Lesson 11. LESSON 139-PLURALS: FORMS SHOWING POSSESSION 1. Plurals. Write sentences using the plurals of the following words: hero deer 2. Forms Showing Possession. echo woman Write the singular and plural possessive forms of three nouns in the following lines: Ah, when shall all men's good Be each man's rule, and universal peace 3. Dictation. -Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Study the above lines and be prepared to write them correctly from your teacher's dictation. Test your work, following the plan suggested on page 20. LESSON 140- REVIEW OF PRONOUNS (AGREEMENT) 1. Pronouns. Read these sentences, filling each blank with a pronoun to complete the sentence: 1. Everyone did what could. 2. If anyone asks for this book, tell 3. If anyone has seen it, I wish I have it. would say so. this 4. If you see one of the boys today, give book. 5. A person should think before 6. If anyone knows, let speaks. answer. 7. Everyone should give what 8. Each boy may tell what can. thinks. is called. 9. Every pupil should answer when Remember that a pronoun agrees with its antecedent in gender, number, and person. 2. Write, Wrote, Written. Repeat the following sentences to yourself several times and be prepared to take part in the rapid repetition of them in class, each pupil giving a sentence: 1. I write now. 2. I wrote yesterday. 4. He writes now. 5. He wrote yesterday. 7. We write now. 8. We wrote yesterday. 9. We have written often. Answer these questions using forms of write: 1. Have you written your exercise? 2. When did you write this letter? 4. Did you write with pencil? 5. Have you written your composition? Be prepared to ask your classmates these questions and to judge the correctness of the answers. LESSON 141 REVIEW OF PRONOUNS (CASE) Read the following sentences, filling each blank with a pronoun. Remember that the use of a noun or a pronoun as subject or predicate nominative is a nominative case-use. 1. Would you go if you were -? |