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Write about some article that is prepared for market near your

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State, so far as you know, the different steps taken in the process of cultivation or manufacture, and tell in what form and in what way the article is taken to market.

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What do these sentences do? How is the second assertion made?

Name the verb that simply states a fact.

a fact emphatically.

Give three sentences that state facts.

1. See the boat.

Name the verb that states

2. Lead us not into temptation.

What does each sentence express? What is the subject of the first verb? Of the second? When the subject of an imperative sentence is expressed, where is it placed?*

Give a sentence that expresses a command. Give one that expresses an entreaty.

*See p. 4.

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Upon what condition will the speaker call the person addressed? Read the part of the sentence that expresses the condition.

What supposition does the speaker make in the second sentence? Upon what does this part of the sentence depend for its meaning? Which verbs in the sentences above express something as conditional or doubtful?

1. He can mend the net.

2. You may open the box.

3. The sun may shine this afternoon.

4. The work must be finished to-night.

Which verb states that some one has the power of performing a certain action? What action is stated as possible? What action is stated as necessary? Which verb expresses permission?

May or might is used with another verb to express permission or possibility; can or could, to express power or ability; must, to express necessity.

Mention the verbs in the following sentences, and tell how each assertion is made:

1. The ship arrived yesterday.

2. You may stay until five o'clock.

3. I saw a flock of beach birds.

4. Listen to the voice of the wind.

5. If I were an artist, I would sketch this building.

6. The grapes must be gathered.

7. The heat might break the glass.

8. Emma can speak German.

9. If you speak, you will frighten the bird.

IO. I do not see the boat.

II. Unless it rain, the fruit will be spoiled. 12. Give us this day our daily bread.

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THE INFINITIVE.

1. They went to ride.

2. The boy has learned to read.

3. I asked him to send the paper.

What words in the foregoing sentences assert actions?

What words simply name actions, but do not assert anything?

The simple form of a verb used with to is called an infinitive. It names an action, but does not assert it.

WRITTEN EXERCISES.

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Copy these sentences, and draw lines under the infinitives: —

I. They were obliged to walk.

2. She did not seem to know him.

3. We will try to amuse the children.

4. They wanted a breeze to turn their windmills.

5. It is more blessed to give than to receive.

6. The shepherd uses a crook to draw his sheep away from

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1. A basket of apples stood on the table.
2. A box holding apples stood on the floor.

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