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قراءة كتاب English Grammar and Composition for Public Schools

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English Grammar and Composition for Public Schools

English Grammar and Composition for Public Schools

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class="bold">Model.—The adjectives in the first sentence are a, rusty, a and silver. A points out or indicates the species of the thing knife. Rusty describes the thing knife.

EXERCISE II.

Write sentences containing adjectives used to show:—

1. What quality of thing is spoken of.
2. How many things are spoken of.
3. Which thing is referred to.

LESSON VI.

VERBS.

Select the words in the following sentences that tell or assert something of the thing spoken of:—

1. Boys play.
2. The sun shines.
3. The snow melts.
4. Mountains are high.

A word that is used to make an assertion is called a verb.

Note.—The word verb is derived from the Latin word verbum, meaning a word, and this part of speech is so called because it is the word, the most important word in every sentence. There can be no sentence without a verb.

EXERCISE I.

Name the verbs in the following sentences, and state what each tells or asserts:—

1. The girls gathered some water-lilies.
2. That house was built last century.
3. He slept for three hours.
4. The gardener fell from a high tree.
5. The coachman struck the horse, and it kicked him.
6. King Edward I. nearly conquered Scotland.
7. She must weep or she will die.
8. And still they rowed amidst the roar
Of waters fast prevailing:
Lord Ullin reached that fatal shore,
His wrath was changed to wailing.

EXERCISE II.

Write sentences containing each of the following words used as subjects, and underline the verbs:—

Plants, rivers, paper, gold, pen, fish, birds, stars, flowers, money.

LESSON VII.

ADVERBS.

Name the words in the following sentences that modify the verbs, that show how, when or where actions were performed:—

1. The girls recited well.
2. The teacher often read a story.
3. I left my pencil there.

A word that is used to modify the meaning of a verb is called an adverb.

An adverb may also modify the meaning of an adjective, as, He is very quiet.

An adverb may also modify the meaning of another adverb; as, She writes more rapidly than you.

An adverb is a word that is used to modify the meaning of a verb, an adjective or another adverb.

EXERCISE I.

State the adverbs in the following sentences, and name the word which each modifies:—

1. Here let us sit and talk of former times.
2. I never saw so clear a sky.
3. How proudly they strode along!
4. Now let me die in peace.
5. The grass is too damp yet.
6. The face of the country suddenly changed.
7. The next night it came again.
8. The storm came on before its time;
She wandered up and down,
And many a hill did Lucy climb,

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