A useful suffix.

's or ' means belonging to or possession; as, boy's, belonging to a boy; boys', belonging to boys.

Singular.

Rule. 1. Write the singular form of the noun. 2. Add the apostrophe. 3. Add s.

1. Copy carefully.

2. Write from dictation.

1. Time's ruin, beauty's wreck, and grim care's reign.

2. I hear the whispering voice of Spring, The thrush's trill, the cat-bird's cry.

3. Learn not only by the comet's rush, But a rose's birth. - ROBERT Browning.

4. We shall lack alone

Woman's smile and girlhood's beauty,
Childhood's lisping tone. -JOHN Greenleaf WHITTIER.

Plural.

GREENLEAF

2. Add the

Rule. 1. Write the plural form of the noun. apostrophe only. 3. Add s if the plural does not end in s. 1. A tender smile, our sorrows' only balm.

2. Whisperings from the wildwood come,

- EDWARD YOUNG.

Mayflowers' breath, and insects' hum. -LUCY LARCOM.

3. The image of men's wit and knowledge remains in books.-FRANCIS BACON.

1. Copy carefully. 2. Write from dictation, or from memory.

I chatter over stony ways,
In little sharps and trebles,
I bubble into eddying bays,
I babble on the pebbles.

I steal by lawns and grassy plots,
I slide by hazel covers;
I move the sweet forget-me-nots
That grow for happy lovers.

I slip, I slide, I gloom, I glance,
Among my skimming swallows;
I make the netted sunbeams dance
Against my sandy shallows.

I murmur under moon and stars
In brambly wildernesses;
I linger by my shingly bars;
I loiter round my cresses;

And out again I curve and flow

To join the brimming river;

For men may come, and men may go,

But I go on forever. - ALFRED TENNYSON, The Brook.

Useful suffixes.

In English, suffixes are much more numerous than prefixes.

ed means did; as, nodded, did nod.

ing means continuing; as, nodding, continuing to nod.

1. Copy carefully. 2. Write from dictation.

1. The world is large when its weary leagues two loving

But the world is small when your enemy is loose on the other side. - JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY.

2. Sweet are the little brooks that run
O'er pebbles glancing in the sun,
Singing in soothing tones. -THOMAS HOOD.

3. And when they are gone I sit dreaming

Of my childhood too lovely to last. -CHARLES DICKENS.

4. The rustling wood, the dying breeze,

The faint low rippling of the seas. — FELICIA D. HEMANS. 5. He hath disgraced me, and hindered me half a million; laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies.

- WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.

6. See the gold sunshine patching, And streaming and streaking across

The gray-green oaks; and catching,

By its soft brown beard, the moss.-PHILIP JAMES BAILEY.

Some words pronounced alike.

1. Copy carefully. 2. Write from dictation. 3. Use the italicized words in sentences of your own.

1.

2.

The sea being smooth,

How many shallow bauble boats dare sail
Upon her patient breast! - WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.

Of a rank

Too proud for dairy work or sale of eggs.

- WILLIAM COWPER.

3. The plentiful moisture encumbered the flower,

And weighed down its beautiful head.-WILLIAM Cowper.

4. Should I wade no more,

Returning were as tedious as go o'er.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.

5. Doth it not show vilely in me to desire small beer?

-WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.

6. And e'en the star, that glitters on the bier, Can only say,-Nobility lies here. - WILLIAM Cowper.

7. The sun is couched, the seafowl gone to rest,

And the wild storm hath somewhere found a nest.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH.

8. But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts, Benighted walks under the midday sun. -JOHN MILTON.

9. It is apparent foul play; and 'tis a shame.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.