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7. She laughed merrily.

8. Do you enjoy your work?

9. I looked for the book, but could not find it.

10. She invited us to ride with her.

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Write sentences containing the following pronouns used as the subjects of sentences:

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1. Alice has a warm cloak.

2. This key will not lock the drawer.

3. The first carriage contained four persons.

What is the office of the word warm? Of the word this? What word limits the meaning of the word drawer to one particular drawer? What is the office of the word first? Of the word four?

Which words in the sentences above are used to describe or limit the meanings of nouns?

A word that describes or limits the meaning of another word is said to modify that word.

A word used to modify a noun or a pronoun is called an adjective. Name the adjectives in the sentences above, and tell what each modifies.

WRITTEN EXERCISES.

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Use the following words in the statement of some fact. Make as many sentences as you can think of:

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Use each of the following words in a sentence, to describe

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LESSON XIII.

CHOICE OF ADJECTIVES.

Tell the office of each word in Italics, in the following sentences:

I. He has built a handsome house.

2. The rose is beautiful flower.

3. What a pretty vase this is!

4. She is a lovely child.

5. Here the splendid ice-palace met our view.

6. The dress was trimmed with real lace.

7. This peach is delicious.

8. Look at this ugly worm.

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Did you have a pleasant walk?

10. The carpet has a bright border.

11. The Chinese have many queer customs.

12. He felt the awful solitude of the desert.

Which of these words are applied to things pleasing to the sight?

Mention three things that may be called pretty. Mention two things that may be called handsome. To what may the word beautiful be applied?

Find a word that is applied to something not pleasing to the sight. What kind of child may be called lovely? Would it be right to apply the word lovely to articles of food? To articles of dress?

Which of these words implies something showy or brilliant? Should we use the word splendid to describe a walk or a ride?

Which of the words above implies fear and reverence? May the word awful be applied to an article of dress?

What is meant by real lace?

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Write sentences, using adjectives to describe the things named below. Choose such adjectives as will exactly express your meaning:

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tall boy. Compare the height of the two boys. Tell what you see.

Pupil. Clarence is taller than Frank.

Notice the heights of all the boys in your class. What would you say of the boy that exceeds all the others in height?

Pupil. He is the tallest boy in the class.

How many forms of the adjective tall have you used, to express different degrees of height?

The form of an adjective that simply expresses the quality is called the positive; as, tall, short.

The form of an adjective that expresses a higher or a lower degree of the quality is called the comparative; as, taller, shorter.

The form that expresses the highest or lowest degree of the quality is called the superlative; as, tallest, shortest.

What did you add to the word tall, to show that the second boy exceeded the first in height?

What was added to the word tall, to show that one boy exceeded all the others in height?

Add er or to most adjectives of one syllable, to form the comparative; as, tall, taller; wise, wiser.

Add est or st to most adjectives of one syllable, to form the superlative; as, tall, tallest; wise, wisest.

Suppose you are speaking of two boys. You say that one is industrious, and wish to state that the second boy has more of the same quality than the first. What will you say about the second boy? What will you say about a boy that surpasses them both in industry?

Prefix more or less to most adjectives of more than one syllable, to form the comparative; as, more industrious; less contented.

Prefix most or least to most adjectives of more than one syllable, to form the superlative; as, most industrious; least contented.

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