Learn: A sentence that contains a principal clause and one or more subordinate clauses is called a complex sentence. We have seen that there are three classes of sentences according to form - simple, compound, and complex. Read the following sentences and name the class to which each belongs: 1. The nobles had robbed and murdered the people. 3. The nobles had robbed and murdered the people, but 4. The nobles, who had robbed and murdered the people, were now forced to obey the laws. What word joins the two clauses in sentence 4? Can either of the clauses in sentence 4 be used alone? What is the subject of the principal clause? The predicate? Read the subordinate clause in sentence 4. What is the subject of the subordinate clause? The predicate? Select the principal clause and the subordinate clause in each of the following sentences; also the word that joins the two clauses. 1. The years that James spent in England taught him many things. 2. As the King and Queen sat talking together, lights flashed in the windows. 3. They heard strange sounds in the garden before they saw the men. 4. The noise which they heard was the tramp of armed men. 5. These men wanted to kill the King because he made them obey the laws. 6. Catharine Douglas put her arm across the door in place 7. She hoped to hold the door until the King could escape. there. 11. If the other end of the passage had been open, the King might have escaped. 12. Although she could not save her King, this brave girl has helped many others to be brave. 13. Catharine Douglas was brave because she did not think of herself. 14. This is the lesson that King Arthur tried to teach. LESSON 13 COMPOSITION 1. Conversation and Discussion. Subject: The Work of the Knights. (a) Some helpful things that knights were bound by their vows to do. (b) Are any of these duties being done now in a different way? (c) How does the work of a fireman, a watchman, a Red Cross nurse, a soldier, or a railroad engineer resemble the work of a knight? 2. Written Exercise. Write the opening paragraph of your discussion, topic (a). LESSON 14 DICTATION: TEST FOR DICTATION 1. Dictation. Study the lines from Tennyson in Lesson 1 which tell of the vow made by the knights. Be prepared to write the lines correctly in your notebook from your teacher's dictation. Compare your work with the quotation as printed, to see if you have made any errors. Record, below your exercise, any errors you may have made, using the following form: TEST FOR DICTATION KIND OF ERROR 1. Omission of paragraph indention... NUMBER OF ERRORS 2. Omission or incorrect use of capital letters.. I have improved in numbers etc. If This record will show plainly your progress. Guard against the repetition of an error by finding its cause. you failed today through ignorance of a rule, turn to pages 323-332, and learn that rule now. 2. Plurals in s, es, ves, ies. What is a noun? See 1 (a), page 327. Write the plurals of the following nouns, and give the rule that applies in each case. See 2 (a), (b), (c), and (d) on page 328. Read these sentences, filling the blanks with the proper LESSON 15 LETTER WRITING: MR., MRS., AND MISS 1. Development. Study the arrangement and punctuation of the following letter: 570 Hawthorne Ave. Dear Fred: Cleveland, Ohio Mother thinks you will be glad to hear about some- Will you start an "Eyes Open" book, too? Then we Your cousin, George Williams Some writers place punctuation marks at the ends of lines in the heading, but such marks are not necessary except after abbreviations. Notice that the heading is arranged on three lines. When the street number is not given, the heading is usually placed on two lines. The titles Mr., Mrs., and Miss are not names, and should never form part of the signature. George's father signs his name Charles R. Williams; George's mother signs her name Jessie M. Williams. If she is writing a business letter, she writes below her signature, and a little to the left, the name by which she wishes to be addressed. She encloses it in parentheses, as follows: (Mrs. Charles R. Williams) In addressing the envelope, the names of the city and the state may be written on one line, with a comma between them, or in two lines. See (b) on page 331. The name of the state is frequently abbreviated. 2. Written Exercise. Write a letter inviting a friend to spend next Saturday afternoon with you. Cut a piece of paper the size of an envelope and address it, following the example given. Address similar envelopes to your teacher, to your principal, and to one of your classmates. What is the natural order of a sentence? The transposed order? Give two examples of each. For what purposes is transposed order used? Give two examples of transposed order in declarative |