3. Forming Plurals: (a) Most nouns ending in o preceded by a consonant add es to form their plurals (p. 37). (b) The plurals of some nouns are formed by a change of vowel (p. 37). (c) A few nouns have two plural forms (p. 53). (d) A few nouns have the same form for both singular and plural (p. 53). (e) Some nouns have no singular forms (p. 135). (f) Proper names form their plurals in various ways (p. 53). 4. General Language Facts: (a) In writing conversation the words of each speaker make a paragraph (p. 27). (b) Sentences that give the idea of denial are called negative statements (p. 101). Two negatives should not be used in making a statement (p. 102). 5. Verb Forms: (a) Give sentences containing the following forms: (b) Do not use except, meaning to leave out, to omit, instead of accept, meaning to receive with favor, to approve (p. 118). (c) Do not confuse the adjective loose and the verb lose (p.118). Study the picture on the opposite page. Read the title. What is the boy doing in the first scene? What is he doing in the second scene? In the third? In the fourth? In the fifth? In the sixth? Which of these kinds of work have you done? Which kind do you think is the most helpful to the farmer? Write title for each of the six scenes and arrange the titles in the form of an outline under the subject. "Helping on a Farm." Tell the complete story suggested by the picture, following the outline you made. Do you think this boy was helping his country as well as helping the farmer? May we say he was a patriotic boy? In what ways do you think the doing of these farm chores helped the boy? What helpful chores can a girl do on a farm? Write a letter to a friend telling about the picture on page 180, or telling how you spent your summer vacation. Being resolved to catch some loaches, I set forth in the forenoon of St. Valentine's Day. I never could forget that day and how bitter cold the water was. I doffed my shoes and hose and put them into a bag about my neck. Then I took a threepronged fork bound to a rod with a cord and went boldly up under the branches which hang so dark on the Bagworthy River. Now, if you have ever been fishing, you will not wonder that I was led on, forgetting all about danger and taking no heed of the time, but shouting in a childish way whenever I caught a big fish. But in answer to all my shouts, there was never any sound at all, except a rocky echo, and the cold of the water grew worse and worse until I was ready to cry. In so sorry a plight, I came to an opening in the bushes where a great black pool lay in front of me. Skirting round one side, I came to a sight such as I had never dreamed of. For lo! I stood at the foot of a long, pale slide of water, coming smoothly to me, and fenced on either side with cliff, sheer and straight and shining. The water neither ran nor leaped but made one even slope. Then said I to myself, "John Ridd, these trees and pools and lonesome rocks are making a coward of you. Will you go back to your mother so and be called her fearless boy?" Then I bestowed my fish around my neck more tightly and, crawling over the rocks, I let my feet into the dip and rush of the torrent. And this must have been the end of me, except for my trusty loach fork. For the green wave came down and my legs were gone off in a moment, but before I knew aught my fork stuck fast in the rock and I was borne up upon it. In this manner I won a footing, leaning well forward like a draught horse and balancing with the fork set behind me. Then I said to myself, "John Ridd, the sooner you get yourself out by the way you came, the better it will be for you." But to my great dismay, I saw that no choice was left me now, except that |