Exercise 9. -In the following sentences name the di rect and the indirect objects of the verb: 1. Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears. 3. I paid the dentist five dollars. 5. My mother offered me a book. 7. Three times they offered him the crown. 8. The peaches brought the farmers good prices. 9. Close attention made him a fortune. 10. Experience taught him wisdom. 11. He owes me ten cents. 12. I owe you my life, sir. 13. It will give me pleasure to lend you a book. Exercise 11. Use the following expressions in apposition with some nouns; as, Dr. Brown, the dentist, has just died. The grocer The great orator A river in Asia A wonderful invention The capital of Ohio The tailor A western State The King of England A rude thing to do A bad accident The inventor of the cotton gin LESSON 47. — WRITTEN EXERCISES 1. Write a letter to a schoolmate, describing a visit you once made to some town. Give the names of some of the Be sure streets, and buildings, and of some of the people you met. Tell whatever else you choose about the town. to write all proper nouns with capital letters. 2. Write a short account of some park or menagerie you may have visited, and tell about the animals you saw, bringing into the story the plural forms of fox, wolf, mouse, goose, ox, sheep, deer, and telling anything else you choose. 3. Let us suppose that a burglar has entered Mr. Parsons's store and stolen some goods. Write an account of it for the morning papers. Name all the nouns you have used in the nominative case. 4. Let us suppose that two boys and two girls, whose names you may give, were in a.boat on a lake and were overturned by an accident. Write an account of it, telling how it happened, and how they were all rescued. Mention all the nouns in your description that are in the objective case and tell how they are governed. 5. If you were an Esquimau child, and lived in the far North, and were writing a letter to an unknown friend in some city in the United States, how should you describe the way you lived, and what questions should you ask in your letter? Write such a letter. Can you now name the nouns and pronouns in your letter that are of the first person, of the second person, and of the third person? 6. You and your father have been traveling in Japan. You have seen many curious people, with strange costumes and habits. Write a letter home describing some of the things you have seen. After you have written. the letter, name all the nouns and pronouns you have used. 7. What other letters can you suggest? LESSON 48.- REVIEW QUESTIONS 1. What is a proper noun? What is a common noun? With what do proper nouns always begin? What is gender? How many genders do words have? Name them. What words are of the masculine gender? What words are of the feminine gender? What words are of the common gender? What words are of the neuter gender? What is meant by number? How many numbers are there? Name them. What does the singular number denote? What does the plural number denote? 2. What is meant by person? How many persons do nouns and pronouns have? Name them. What does the first person denote? What does the second person denote? What does the third person denote? What is case? How many cases are there? Name them. When is a noun in the nominative case? What is meant by nominative of address? What is meant by the nominative absolute? What is meant by the predicate nominative? When is a noun in the possessive case? What is the sign of the possessive case? When is a noun in the objective case? What is meant by an adverbial object? What other kind of object may a noun or pronoun be? When is a noun in apposition with another noun ? A poem to study and memorize: (A language study) TO A WATERFOWL Whither, 'midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, Seek'st thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide, There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast, Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fanned, At that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere; And soon that toil shall end; Soon shalt thou find a summer home and rest Hath swallow'd up thy form; yet on my heart Deeply has sunk the lesson thou hast given, He, who from zone to zone Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight, Will lead my steps aright. What is a pronoun? Of what part of speech are the words above? Which of them refer to the person speaking? Which of them refer to the person spoken to? Which of them refer to the person spoken of? These pronouns are called personal pronouns, because they are used to indicate the speaker, the person spoken to, and the person or thing spoken of. A personal pronoun is a pronoun that indicates the speaker, the person spoken to, or the person or thing spoken of. The pronouns that indicate the speaker are said to be of the first person. The pronouns that indicate the person spoken to are said to be of the second person. The pronouns that indicate the person or thing spoken of are said to be of the third person. Exercise 1. Name the personal pronouns in these sentences: 1. I shall tell him what you say. 2. He brought us to his house. 3. We told her mother that you were coming. 4. My house is at your service. 5. Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. |