LESSON 29 CLASSES OF SENTENCES: SUBJECT AND PREDICATE Classify according to form the following sentences and tell the subject and the predicate of each clause. Name the principal word of each subject and each predicate. 1. The boy stared at Hepzibah and went out of the shop. 2. He held his cent in one hand and the gingerbread man in the other. 3. When the child reached the street, he put the head of the gingerbread man into his mouth. 4. She had just placed another gingerbread figure in the window when the bell tinkled again. 5. There stood the little boy. 6. I want that other gingerbread man. 7. Here it is. 8. Where is the cent? 9. He put the coin into Hepzibah's hand. 10. The second gingerbread man followed the first one. Classify the verbs in the preceding sentences as transitive or intransitive. Classify the intransitive verbs as complete or linking and tell the voice of each transitive verb. LESSON 30 CURRENT EVENTS Be prepared to discuss some current event of local or general interest. Make an outline to guide you. Write a report of the event discussed in the preceding lesson. Test your work by the form given on page 5. LESSON 32 MONTHLY REVIEW What is a descriptive adjective? Illustrate. What is the definite article? Why is it so called? What are the indefinite articles? Why are they so called? When is a used? When is an used? What is a pronominal adjective? Why is it so called? 1. Reading. CHAPTER THREE LESSON 33 LITERATURE THE FLIGHT Sometimes we walked, sometimes we ran, and as it drew on to morning, we walked less and ran more. For all of our hurry, day began to come in while we were still far from shelter. It found us in a valley where ran a foaming river. I could see Alan knit his brow. "This is no fit place for you and me," he said. "This is a place they're bound to watch." With that he ran harder than ever down to the water side, where the river was split in two among three rocks. He looked neither to the right nor to the left, but jumped upon the middle rock. I had scarce time to measure the distance or to understand the peril before I had followed him, and he had caught and stopped me. So there we stood, upon a small rock, slippery with spray, a far broader leap in front of us and the river dinning upon all sides. The next minute Alan leaped over the further branch of the stream and landed safe. I was now alone upon the rock, which gave me more room. I bent low on my knees and flung myself forth, with that kind of anger of despair that has sometimes stood me in stead of courage. Alan seized me, first by my hair, then by the collar, and dragged me into safety. Never a word he said, but set off running again, and I must stagger to my feet and run after him. I had been weary before, but now I was sick and bruised, and when at last Alan paused under a great rock, it was none too soon for David Balfour. A great rock, I have said; but it was two rocks leaning together at the top, both some twenty feet high, and at the first sight, inaccessible. Alan failed twice in an attempt to climb them, and it was only by standing on my shoulders and leaping up that he secured lodgment. Once there, he let down his leathern girdle, and with the aid of that, I scrambled up beside him. Then I saw why we had come there, for the two rocks, being somewhat hollow on the top and sloping one to the other, made a kind of saucer, where as many as three or four men might have lain hidden. Then at last Alan smiled. "Aye," said he, "now we have a chance. Go you to your sleep and I'll watch." I dare say it was nine in the morning when I was roughly awakened and found Alan's hand pressed upon my mouth. "Wheesht!" he whispered. "You were snoring." He peered over the edge of the rock and signed to me to do the like. Near by, on the top of a rock, there stood a sentry. All the way down the river side were posted other sentries; here near together, there widelier scattered. I took but one look at them and ducked again into my place. The tediousness and pain of those hours upon the rocks grew greater as the day went on, the rock getting still hotter and the sun fiercer. At last, there came a patch of shade on the east side of the rock, which was the side sheltered from the soldiers. "As well one death as another," said Alan, and slipped over the edge and dropped on the ground. I followed him and instantly fell all my length, so weak was I and giddy with that long exposure. Presently we began to get a little strength, and Alan proposed that we should try a start. We began to slip from rock to rock, now crawling, now making a run for it. By sundown we had made some distance. But now we came on a deep, rushing burn that tore down to join the glen river. We cast ourselves on the ground and plunged head and shoulders in the water. I cannot tell which was more pleasant, the great shock as the cool stream went over us or the greed with which we drank it. As soon as the shadow of night had fallen, we set forth again. Early as day comes in the beginning of July, it was still dark when we reached our destination, a cleft in the head of a great mountain, with a water running through the midst, and upon one hand a shallow cave in a rock. Birches grew there in a thin, pretty wood, which a little farther on was changed into a wood of pines. The burn was full of trout; the wood of cushat doves; on the opening side of the mountain beyond, whaups were always whistling and cuckoos were plentiful. It was, on the whole, a pleasant place, and the five days we lived in it went happily. We slept in the cave, making our bed of heather bushes. There was a low, concealed place, in a turning of the glen, where we made a fire to warm ourselves when the clouds set in, and grill the little trout that we caught with our hands. The largest we got might have been three quarters of a pound; but they were of good flavor and, when broiled upon the coals, lacked only a little salt to be delicious. 2. Study of Story. · Robert Louis Stevenson. The above is a selection from "Kidnapped." The events recorded are represented as having taken place more than one hundred fifty years ago in Scotland. David Balfour, who is telling the story, and his companion, Alan, had been wrongfully suspected of murder and had fled for their lives. What incident shows Alan's daring? What shows his perseverance? What shows his kindness to David? From what did Alan and David suffer most during the hours upon the rock? At what time during the flight do you think Alan and David were in the greatest danger? Find an example of a predicate adjective in the fourth paragraph on page 210. Find a form of lie in the second paragraph on page 211. Give the other forms of lie. Give the forms of lay. |