What words in these sentences describe the thing spoken of? What words show how the action is performed?

Use an adjective after such verbs as look, feel, smell, taste, when you wish to describe the person or thing spoken of. Use an adverb when you wish to show how the action is performed.

Tell which words in Italics are used to describe persons or things, and which are used to show how actions are performed:

I. Charles looks ill.

2. The girl is unhappy.

3. The woman looked sharply at the stranger.
4. The bark feels rough.

5. Her dress looked neat.

6. She sews neatly.

7. Henry arrived safe.

8. I feel bad.

9. The work is badly done.

10. The bell was answered promptly.

WRITTEN EXERCISES.

I.

Write sentences containing the following adjectives used after look, feel, smell, taste, or seem: —

Form adverbs from the words in the foregoing list.

Examples.kindly, carefully.

III.

Write sentences containing the adverbs formed from the words in the foregoing list.

LESSON XXX.

THE COMMA.

1. The child has a bright, happy face.

2. Bats have large front teeth.

3. The grocer sells tea, coffee, and sugar.

What is the office of happy? Of bright? What mark is placed between the two words? What does front describe? What kind of front teeth do bats have?

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The adjectives bright and happy are used in the same way, each describes face. The adjectives in the second sentence are not used in 'the same way; front describes teeth, but large describes front teeth.

Words used in the same way are said to be in the same construction. What words in the third sentence are in the same construction? How is each of those words used?

Words or phrases in the same construction should be separated by commas; as, The lowlands are hot, damp, and unhealthy.

NOTE. -Two words or two short phrases in the same construction, when connected by a conjunction, should not be separated by a comma; as, He is tall and slender.

Tell which words in the following sentences are in the same construction, and why the commas are used or omitted : —

LEARN

1. The sky is clear and blue.

2. It will be a clear, cold night.

3. Thousands of men, women, and children rushed through the streets.

4. We soon forgot the hardships of the long, cold ride. 5. You will find the coat in the hall or in the closet.

6. The cart was filled with potatoes, beets, and cabbages. 7. The surface of the soil is protected by blackbirds, crows, thrushes, and larks.

8. The mountains are covered with forests of pine, fir, and cedar.

WRITTEN EXERCISE.

Copy the following sentences, and insert commas where they are needed:

He gave a long, low whistle.

2. The man had a newspaper a cane and an umbrella.

3. It was a bright, sunny day.

4. Rover gave a short, quick bark.

5. In the morning we read, sing, and play.

6. Henry, Edwin and I went to ride.

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7. The boy was cold, tired and hungry.

8. Stone wood and brick are used for building houses.

9. Frogs have long hind legs.

10. Chimney swallows build their nests in caves, trees or chimneys.

II. The streets were crowded with men women, and children.

12. A small round table stood in the centre of the room.

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LESSON XXXI.

REVIEW.

ORAL EXERCISE.

What do we call a word that modifies a noun?

What do we call a word that modifies a verb?
What besides verbs may adverbs modify?

Give an example. Give an example.

Give a sentence in which an adjective modifies the subject of a verb; the object of a verb.

Give a sentence in which an adjective in the predicate modifies a noun or a pronoun in the subject.

Give a sentence in which an adverb modifies a verb; an adjective; another adverb.

Give a sentence containing two nouns in the same construction; two verbs in the same construction; three adjectives in the same construction.

Give the rule for punctuating sentences which contain words or expressions in the same construction.

WRITTEN EXERCISE.

I. Write sentences, using the following words to modify nouns in the subject or in the predicate : —

2. Write sentences, using the following words to modify verbs

3. Write sentences, using adjectives after the verbs below, to modify nouns or pronouns in the subject:

DICTATION EXERCISE.

1. James, have you
you finished your work?

2. The basket was filled with pears, peaches, and grapes.
3. "Good morning, Mrs. Brown," said the doctor.

4. Her voice was low, clear, and musical.

5. The room was long and narrow.

6. The Andes are on the western coast of South America. 7. Did you call me, sir?

8. Fanny, Alice, and Gertrude joined the party.

LESSON XXXII.

STUDY OF A DESCRIPTION.

THE OLD ANGLER'S COTTAGE.

I found the old angler living in a small cottage containing only one room, but a perfect curiosity in its method and arrangement.

It was on the skirts of the village, on a green bank, a little back from the road, with a small garden in front, stocked with kitchen herbs, and adorned with a few flowers. The whole front of the cottage was overrun with a honeysuckle. top was a ship for a weathercock.

On the