(2) Answer all the questions asked by Mrs. Jackson in section (1). Can you answer each of them by a single word? What is the answer to each sentence? Find or write five sentences that can be answered by yes. no. Find or write five sentences that can be answered by Read the following questions and their answers: — What is the best of all laudable things? What is the most valuable of all possessions? What is the best of all kinds of happiness? The best of all laudable things is skill. The best of all gains is health. The best of all kinds of happiness is contentment. From A Hindoo Catechism. Could these questions be answered by yes or no? The best of all laudable things is the subject of the thought. Hence these words taken together make the subject of the sentence. What merely asks the question. The predicate is is what. This sentence changed to the natural order would read, "The best of all laudable things is what?" In what order are the subject and the predicate of interrogative sentences usually placed? Name the subjects of the three other questions. (3) In questions that may be answered by yes or no, what shows that they are questions? Other questions, like those in section (2), are written in the inverted order and also have question words as the first words. The question words are who, whose, whom, which, what, how, when, where, why. Copy or make a sentence using each question word correctly. Name the subject in each. Name the predicate in each. Rewrite the sentences in the natural order. Once on a time there was a man who was out on a journey. At last he came to a big, fine farm, and there was a house so grand that it might well have been a little palace. "Here it would be good to get leave to spend the night," said the man to himself, as he went inside the gate. Hard by stood an old man with gray hair and beard, who was hewing wood. "Good evening, father," said the wayfarer. "Can I have house-room here to-night?" "I'm not father in the house," said the gray beard. into the kitchen, and talk to my father." "Go The wayfarer went into the kitchen, and there he met a man who was still older, and who lay on his knees before the hearth, and was blowing the fire. "Good evening, father," said the wayfarer. "Can I get house-room here to-night?" "but "I'm not father in the house," said the old man; go in and talk to my father. table in the parlor." You'll find him sitting at the So the wayfarer went into the parlor, and talked to him who sat at the table. He was much older than either of the other two, and there he sat, with his teeth chattering, and shivered and shook, and read out of a big book, almost like a little child. "Good evening, father," said the man. me have house-room here to-night?" "Will you let "I'm not father in the house," said the man who sat at the table, whose teeth chattered, and who shivered and shook; "but speak to my father, who sits on the bench yonder." So the wayfarer went to him who sat on the bench, and he was trying to fill himself a pipe of tobacco; but he was so withered up and his hands shook so with the palsy that he could scarce hold the pipe. "Good evening, father," said the wayfarer again. "Can I get house-room here to-night? “I'm not father in the house," said the old withered fellow; "but speak to my father, who lies in bed yonder." So the wayfarer went to the bed, and there lay an old, old man, who, but for his pair of big staring eyes, scarcely looked alive. "Good evening, father," said the wayfarer. "Can I get house-room here to-night?" "I'm not father in the house," said the old man with the big eyes; "but go and speak to my father, who lies yonder in the cradle." So the wayfarer went to the cradle, and there lay a man as old as the hills, so withered and shriveled he was no bigger than a baby, and it was hard to tell that there was any life in him, except that there was a sound of breathing every now and then in his throat. "Good evening, father," said the wayfarer. "May I have house-room here to-night?" It was long before he got an answer, but the end was, that he said, as all the rest had done, that he was not father in the house. "But go," said he, "and speak to my father; you'll find him hanging up in the horn yonder against the wall." So the wayfarer stared about round the walls, and at last he caught sight of the horn; but when he spied him who hung in it, he looked like a film of ashes that had the likeness of a man's face. Then the wayfarer was so frightened that he screamed out: "Good evening, father! Will you let me have houseroom here to-night? Then a chirping came out of the horn like a little tomtit, and it was all he could do to make out that the chirping meant, "YES, MY CHILD.” And now a table came in which was covered with the costliest dishes; and when he had eaten, there came in a good bed with reindeer skins; and the wayfarer was so very glad because he had at last found the right father in the house.-P. C. ASBJörnsen. How many kinds of sentences do you find in this story? Copy one of each kind. In the first paragraph, in what order is each sentence written? Write in the natural order those that are inverted. (2) What is the first imperative sentence in the story? Does it contain a subject? The subject is really the word you, but it is not given. If it were given, the sentence would read, "You go into the kitchen and talk to my father." In imperative sentences the subject is always you. It is almost always omitted. Copy all the imperative sentences in the story and supply the subjects. Name the subjects of all the declarative sentences. Name the predicates of all the interrogative sentences. IX EXCLAMATORY SENTENCES-ORDER How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! - SHAKESPEARE. Look, how the floor of heaven is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold! SHAKESPEARE. How great a matter a little fire kindleth. — Bible. What a fall was there, my countrymen! Stand! The land's your own, my braves! SHAKESPEARE. PIERPONT. Could you tell that these sentences are exclamatory, if it were not for the mark? Exclamatory sentences show strong feeling. |