Exercise. Parse the prepositions in the following sentences:

1. He has gone to Europe according to his letter.
2. They live in great style regardless of expense.

3. The house opposite the church is without a tenant.
4. Instead of going abroad, we will remain in New York.
5. We agreed upon who was to go and who was to stay.
6. I saw from out the wave her structures rise.
7. So Paul departed from among them.

8. Everything perishes except truth.

9. The sun was sinking below the horizon.

10. We rise in work and we sink in pride.

11. We rowed with the wind and against the tide.

Exercise.

-Write a short note in answer to each of the following advertisements:

1. Wanted. A boy to do errands, collect bills, and be useful around a doctor's office; address in own handwriting, stating salary expected. Address Box 29, Baltimore.

2. Wanted. A young lady to trim hats. References and experience required. Address Millinery, care Herald.

3. For Sale.

Beautiful summer home on the Hudson; 6 rooms; wide piazzas; bluff overlooking river. For further particulars, address Owner, 123 Broadway, N.Y.

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State experience and

4. For Rent. Farm of 250 acres, 8 miles from town. spondence solicited. Address J. A. Henry, care Times, City. 5. Mechanics Wanted to build river bridge. wages expected. Address Architect Wilson, 16 Park Place, City. 6. Wanted. - To rent a winter house in the South. Write description and terms to E. R. Barnes, St. Paul, Minn.

7. Wanted. To buy a pony for a boy eight years old. Address, describing pony and giving price, to P. O. Box 81, Nashville.

8. Wanted. To exchange a city house for a farm. Address, giving description of property to John B. Harris, 10 Front Street, City. 9. Found. A purse, in the East Side Park last Sunday. Owner will write describing purse and contents to Lock Box 1431, City.

A poem to study and memorize:

(A language lesson only)

SING ON, BLITHE BIRD

I've plucked the berry from the bush, the brown nut from the tree,
But heart of happy little bird ne'er broken was by me.

I saw them in their curious nests, close couching, slyly peer
With their wild eyes, like glittering beads, to note if harm were near;
I passed them by and blessed them all; I felt that it was good
To leave unmoved the creature small whose home was in the wood.

And here, even now, above my head, a lusty rogue doth sing;
He pecks his swelling breast and neck, and trims his little wing;
He will not fly; he knows full well, while chirping on that spray,
I would not harm him for a world, or interrupt his lay.

Sing on, sing on, blithe bird! and fill my heart with summer gladness;

It has been aching many a day with measures full of sadness!

- WILLIAM MOTHERWELL.

LESSON 121.COÖRDINATE CONJUNCTIONS

John cuts the wood.

William builds the fire.

Here we have two sentences, each independent of the other. We can connect them by the word and or the word but, so as to make one sentence. The words used to unite these sentences into one sentence are called conjunctions. When they connect words, phrases, or clauses of the same rank they are called coördinate conjunctions. A coördinate conjunction is a conjunction that connects words, phrases, or clauses of the same rank.

The simple coördinate conjunctions are:

Exercise 1. In these sentences name the conjunctions and the words they connect :

1. Plants need heat and moisture.
2. Diamonds are little but precious.
3. Do your duty, be it easy or hard.

In these sentences name the conjunctions and the phrases they connect:

4. The birds sing by day and by night.

5. Will you come by rail or by water?

6. Success is not gained by wishing but by hard work.

In these sentences name the conjunctions and the clauses they connect :

7. We came early, but we could not find a place.

8. The soldier stood erect and received his orders.
9. Be on hand promptly or we will leave you.

Exercise 2.—In these sentences name the coördinate conjunctions and tell what they connect:

1. Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

2. The day was long and hot, but it ended at last.

3. Will you come with us or stay at home?

4. Jonathan and David were like brothers.

5. Let dogs delight to bark and bite.

6. You must strive or you will fail.

7. We need fresh air or we will die.
8. Sugar is sweet, but honey is sweeter.
9. The lecture was long, yet interesting.
10. He is ambitious, moreover he is successful.
11. He disobeyed, therefore he was punished.
12. Nobody came, so I went alone.

13. We had finished; accordingly we left.
14. The way is not safe, nor is it pleasant.
15. It is not yet time; however, I will join you.
16. The child is pretty, also clever.

17. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, but all play and no study will make him duller.

18. You must work, and I must work, and everybody must work, or the world will become desolate.

19. Inward and outward, to northward and southward, the shore lines shimmer and curl.

20. Man proposes, but God disposes.

Exercise 3.- Connect the elements of these sentences by coördinate conjunctions:

1. Be steady, patient, persevering.

2. Avoid gossip; cultivate cheerfulness; always be kind.

3. To err is human, to forgive divine.

4. A million for defense, not one cent for tribute.

5. Sow an act, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny.

6. At home, in business, among friends, among strangers, he was the same.

Exercise 4.

Shorten and improve these sentences by

omitting some or all coördinate conjunctions:

1. The table and the chairs and the walls were covered with the dust and the dirt and the smoke of years.

2. Apples are gold in the morning, and silver at noon, and lead at night.

3. I came and I saw and I conquered.

4. Come or go, speak or be silent, help or hinder, it is nothing to us.

LESSON 122.-COMPOUND SUBJECTS OF SENTENCES

Life and death are in thy hands.

Getting hot and drinking ice water is dangerous.

In the above sentences there are two separate ideas in the subject. In the first sentence we are speaking of both life and death. In the second sentence we are speaking of getting hot and drinking ice water. These two sepa

rate but related ideas are connected by the conjunction and. When two or more words, phrases, or clauses are united by a conjunction to form a subject of a sentence they form the compound subject.

When a compound subject consists of ideas or facts that are not at all dependent upon each other and are in fact separate ideas, the verb must be in the plural number. Parrots and monkeys live in Africa.

William and Mary were rulers of England.

When the compound subject consists of two or more ideas that are dependent upon each other, and together form but one general idea or fact, the verb must be in the singular number.

Bread and milk is good food for a child's supper.

Ice and salt is a freezing mixture.

Exercise 1.-In the following sentences containing compound subjects choose between the singular and the plural form of the verb, and give your reasons:

1. Sitting up at night and eating heavy food (is) (are) ruinous to one's health.

2. Gold and silver (is) (are) found in California.

3. Trapping game birds and shooting them out of season (is). (are) against the law.

4. Looking behind and not paying attention (was) (were) the cause of the accident.

5. Five and five (is) (are) ten.

6. Eating rapidly and not chewing thoroughly (give) (gives) one indigestion.

7. Land and water (make) (makes) the surface of the earth.

8. Sirup and water (make) (makes) a sweet drink.

9. Honor and shame from no condition (rise) (rises).

10. Mercy and truth (is) (are) met together.

11. Greatness and goodness (is) (are) not means, but ends.