you take away my book?

5. The shades of night were falling fast. 6. How lightly she trips along! 7. In one corner of the room stood my grandfather’s clock. 8. Send this note to the post. 9. How strange our old home looks! 10. At the dawn of day he ascended the hill.

EXERCISE III.

1. Write four examples of an assertive sentence and name the subject and the predicate of each sentence.

2. Write four examples of an imperative sentence and name the subject and the predicate of each sentence.

3. Write four examples of an interrogative sentence and name the subject and the predicate of each sentence.

4. Write four examples of an exclamatory sentence and name the subject and the predicate of each sentence.

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LESSON III.

NOUNS.

State the words that are used as names in the following sentences:—

1.	The shoes worn by the soldiers were made in England.
2.	Near this tree is the grave of a pioneer.
3.	Chaucer is the father of English poetry.
4.	Love had he found in huts where poor men lie.

A word used as a name is called a noun.

EXERCISE I.

Name the nouns in the following sentences:—

1.	There are seven provinces in Canada.
2.	Then the fly lit his lamp of fire.
3.	The bloom of that fair face is wasted.
4.	The boy stood on the burning deck.
5.	And then my heart with pleasure fills,
	And dances with the daffodils.
6.	He goes on Sunday to the church
	And sits among his boys.
7.	I hear in the chamber above me
	The patter of little feet,
	The sound of a door that is opened,
	And voices soft and sweet.
8.	A violet by a mossy stone,
	Half hidden from the eye!
	Fair as a star, when only one
	Is shining in the sky.

EXERCISE II.

Write sentences containing—

1.	The name of a place.
2.	The name of a person.
3.	The name of a tree.
4.	The name of a metal.
5.	The name of an article of food.
6.	The name of an animal.
7.	The name of a quality.
8.	The name of an action.

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LESSON IV.

PRONOUNS.

Name the nouns for which the words printed in italics are used in the following sentences:—

1.	The teacher went home when he finished the lesson.
2.	The mother kissed her boy when she received him.
3.	A baby was sleeping,
	Its mother was weeping
	For her husband was far on the wild raging sea.

A word used for a noun is called a pronoun.