Answer the following questions, using complete sentences: 1. I want to learn music. 3. I want to learn to row. Will you teach me? Will you teach me? 4. When did you learn to read? 6. Are you learning to play the piano? 8. Do you want to learn to swim? 9. Do you want me to teach you? 10. Did you learn to use decimal fractions? 11. Who taught you to skate? 12. Did you teach your little brother to read? Be prepared to ask your classmates these or similar questions, and to judge the correctness of their answers. 2. Written Exercise. Fill the blanks in the following sentences with forms of teach or learn: LESSON 122 PARTICIPLES AND VERBS 1. Participles. You have learned that a participle is used partly as an adjective and partly as a verb; that as an adjective it describes or limits a substantive, and as a verb it may have a direct object, an indirect object, or a predicate noun, pronoun, or adjective. Select the participles in the following sentences and tell how each is used. Follow this model: SENTENCES MODEL (1) Ruth, seeing the danger, (1) Seeing is a participle; as an stopped suddenly. (2) We saw him, shouting for joy. adjective it modifies the noun Ruth; as a verb it has the noun danger as direct object. (2) Shouting is a participle; as an adjective it modifies the pronoun him; as a verb it is modified by the adverbial phrase for joy. 1. Hearing a noise, Hal ran home. 2. The wall, weakened by fire, fell down. 4. Leaving the main road, he ran to the farmhouse. 8. Tom started on, skipping like a school boy. 9. Being a boy, John was fond of hunting. 10. We saw the large baskets, filled with dainty food. 2. Verbs. Select the correct verb in each of the following sentences and give reasons for your choice: 1. The general, as well as his soldiers, (sail, sails) today. 2. A procession of wagons (wait, waits) at the coal yards. 3. Our regiment of soldiers (leave, leaves) tonight. 4. None of the boys (was, were) to blame for it. 5. Hunger, together with the cold, (make, makes) him weak. 6. Everybody (play, plays) the game but me. 7. Either Robert or Milton (start, starts) this morning. mobile. 9. The president and secretary (ride, rides) on the street cars. 10. The president and the secretary (ride, rides) on the street cars. 11. The scissors (was, were) taken to the workshop. 12. Neither one of us (was, were) in the best of spirits. 13. Every one of the soldiers (take, takes) rifle practice. 14. His trousers (was, were) not new. 15. The tongs (is, are) new and bright. Select the correct adjective in each of the following sentences and give reasons for your choice: 1. Which of the two girls is the (taller, tallest)? 2. Philadelphia is larger than (any, any other) city in Pennsylvania. 3. Both the Mississippi and the Missouri are long rivers. Which is the (longer, longest)? 4. Which is the (larger, largest), Chicago, Boston, or New York? 5. I do not know which is the (harder, hardest), history or geography. 6. London is larger than (any, any other) city in England. 7. London is larger than (any, any other) city in the United States. 8. Which is (nearer, nearest) the earth, the sun or the moon? 9. Texas is larger than (any, any other) state. 10. Which is the (larger, largest), Ohio, Montana, or Pennsylvania? 11. Both mountains are high, but I do not know which is the (higher, highest). 12. Which city is the (larger, largest), Chicago or New York? 13. In the high schools of our city there are (fewer, less) boys than girls. Tell whether or not the italicized words are necessary in the following sentences: 1. I have a spelling book, a geography, and a reader. 2. The sun and the moon made a trial of strength. 3. Washington crossed the Delaware and the Potomac Rivers. 4. Both the mountain and the valley are covered with snow. 5. The lion and the tiger are beasts of great power. 6. We selected a speaker and a poet for our class day exercises. 7. The weather bureau hoisted a black and a white flag. (Two flags.) 8. I have a red and a black tie. (Two ties.) LESSON 124 LETTER WRITING Write a business letter to some store, ordering anything you would like to buy. LESSON 125 - CORRECT USE OF PRONOUNS AND POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVES Select the correct word in italics for each of these sentences and give reasons for your choice: 1. Each of us did (their, his) best. 2. Everyone is in (their, his) place. 3. Who will lend me (their, his) book? 4. If anyone asks for me, tell (them, him) to wait. 5. Everyone has (their, his) faults. 6. Each of the boys told (their, his) story. 7. Neither of the boys was in (their, his) happiest mood. 8. Everyone has (their, his) own work to do. 9. Tell each of the boys to bring (their, his) books tomorrow. 10. Will anyone give me (their, his) help? 11. Everyone must do what (they, he) thinks is right. 12. Everyone may go where (they, he) pleases. 13. Ruth and Jane will help (each other, one another). 1. Conversation and Discussion. Report orally to the class on the wild flowers you have seen, the birds you have observed, or the trees you have studied. First make an outline to guide you in your talk. 2. Written Exercise. Write for the school paper the opening paragraph of your report. Test your work by the form given on page 5. |