4. On the Treatment of Animals. Man's superior organization-labor of animals-does the body require animal food?-animals furnish clothing-is it right to destroy animals ?-man should not be cruel-food and rest for working-animals. 5. Habits. 6. Novel-Reading. 7. Sunshine. 8. Irish Character. 9. The First Lie. 10. Make Haste Slowly. 11. Bores. 12. Learn to Say No. 13. White Lies. 14. Politeness. 15. Never Too Late to Learn. DIALOGUES. 136. As a school-exercise, Dialogues may be written in two ways: 1. Each character may be assigned to a different pupil. When this is done, the pupils representing the different characters will meet; and each one will write his part of the dialogue. 2. The dialogue may be written by a single pupil, with explanations, remarks, etc., such as are found in magazine stories and novels. EXERCISE. 137. The following subjects for dialogues are suggested : 1. Going to Boarding-School. Characters: Mrs. Jones, who is inclined to send her daughter away to school; Mary, her daughter, who is anxious to go; Aunt Esther, a maiden lady, opposed to schools. 2. The Next Election. Characters: J. L. L., a Republican; W. U. H., a Democrat; E. K. M., an Independent. 3. Country Life vs. City Life. 4. Theatre-going. 5. Traveling vs. Reading. 6. The Best Magazine. 7. Dialogue between a Dog and a Cat. 8. Conversation between a Boy and his Greatgrandfather. 9. The Owl and the Bat. 10. My School-Books' Quarrel. 22. An Old Man's Advice. 23. The Oldest Inhabitant's Description of as He first Saw It. 24. How the Soldier Lost His Arm. 25. The Autobiography of an Old Horse. 26. The Day-Dreams of a Cat. 27. What the Dog Growls about. 28. The Biography of a Rose. 29. The Reminiscences of an Old Tree. 30. A Sheaf of Wheat. 31. A Telephone with a Memory. 32. A Faded Shawl's Tale. 33. The Old Musket's Story. 34. What Shall a Young Man Do ? 35. What Shall a Young Woman Do? 36. Visit to a Battle-Field. 37. Woman in Politics. 38. Brains in Business. 39. Planting Trees. 40. A Thousand a Year. 41. I Will. 42. My First Day at School. 43. Signs. 44. His First Mustache. 45. A Stitch in Time Saves Nine. 46. A Country Store. 47. Does the World Owe Me a Living? 48. Cobwebs. 49. The Other Folks. 50. A Christmas Story. 51. Fairy Stories. 52. Robinson Crusoe. 53. Slang Phrases. 54. A Letter from the Man in the Moon. 55. Escape from a Burning Hotel. 56. Search for a Lost Child. 57. Saved from a Wreck. 58. Growth by Conquest. 59. Home Education. 60. The Smoketown Lyceum. 61. Gossip. 62. Mother Hubbard. 63. Socrates. 64. Why? 65. The Boy Who Always Forgot. 66. A Trip Across the Continent. 67. A Trip Across the Continent in 1900. 68. Telephonic Communication with Jupiter. 69. Christmas in the Year 2000. 71. The Human Countenance. 74. On the Use of Tobacco. 78. The Art of Conversation. 79. Cheap Books. 80. A Search for an Honest Man. 81. Do Manners Make the Man? 82. Were the Old Times the Best Times? 83. A Hundred Years Ago. APPENDIX. A. SUMMARY OF RULES OF CONSTRUCTION. [FOR REFERENCE.] Rule 1. A noun or a pronoun used as the subject of a finite verb, is in the nominative case. (331.) Rule 2. A noun or a pronoun used independently, is in the nominative case. (332.) Special Rule 1. A pronoun used independently, is sometimes in the objective case. (332 a.) Rule 3. A noun or a pronoun used absolutely, is in the nominative case. (334.) Special Rule 2. A noun or a pronoun used absolutely, is sometimes in the possessive case. (334 a.) Rule 4. A noun or a pronoun used to modify another by denoting possession, is in the possessive case. (338.) Rule 5. A noun or a pronoun used as the direct object of a transitive verb or verbal, is in the objective case. (348.) Special Rule 3. A noun or a pronoun used as the cognate object of a transitive verb or verbal, is in the objective case. (348 b.) Rule 6. A noun or a pronoun used as the indirect object of a verb, a verbal, an adjective, or an adverb, is in the objective case. (349.) Rule 7. A noun or a pronoun used as the adverbial object of a verb, a verbal, an adjective, or an adverb, is in the objective case. (350.) Rule 8. A noun or a pronoun used as the object of a preposition, is in the objective case. (351.) Rule 9. A noun or a pronoun used in predication or apposition with another in the nominative or the objective case, agrees with it in case. (355.) Rule 10. A noun or a pronoun used in predication or apposition with another in the possessive case, is in the nominative case. (356.) Special Rule 4. A noun or a pronoun used in apposition with another in the possessive case, sometimes agrees with it in case. (356 a.) Special Rule 5. A noun or a pronoun used in apposition to modify a word or a combination of words not used as a noun, is in the nominative case. (356 b.) Rule 11. A pronoun agrees with its antecedent in gender, person, and number. (359.) Special Rule 6. A pronoun having two or more antecedents representing the same person or thing, is in the singular number; if they represent different persons or things, it is in the plural number. If the antecedents differ in person, it prefers the first person to the second, and the second to the third. If one is in the masculine or the feminine gender, and the other is in the neuter, the gender of the pronoun is indefinite. (359 a.) Rule 12. A subordinate conjunctive is used to introduce a clause, and join it to the word that the clause modifies. (371.) Special Rule 7. A subordinate conjunctive is sometimes used simply to introduce a clause. (371 a.) Rule 13. A finite verb agrees with its subject in person and number. (440.) Special Rule 8. A finite verb having two or more subjects joined by "and" and differing in person, prefers the first person to the second, and the second to the third. (440 a.) Special Rule 9. A finite verb having two or more subjects joined by "or" or "nor," agrees with the subject next the verb in person and number. (440 b.) Special Rule 10. A finite verb having two or more subjects joined by "and" and not modified by "no," "each," "every," or a similar adjective, is in the plural number if they denote different persons or things. (440 c.) Special Rule 11. A finite verb having two or more singular subjects representing the same person or thing, or modified by "no," "each," "every," or a similar adjective, is in the singular number. (440 d.) Rule 14. A non-finite verb does not change its form to agree with its subject in person and number. (441.) Rule 15. An adjective is used to modify a noun or a pronoun. (480.) Special Rule 12. An adjective is sometimes used absolutely, as the complement of a verbal. (480 a.) Rule 16. An adverb is used to modify a verb, a verbal, an adjective, or another adverb. (495.) Special Rule 13. An adverb is sometimes used to modify a noun, a pronoun, a phrase, a clause, or a sentence. (495 a.) Special Rule 14. The adverb there is sometimes used simply to change the relative position of the subject and predicate of a proposition. (495 b.) Special Rule 15. An adverb is sometimes used independently. (495 c.) Special Rule 16. A verbal is sometimes used independently. (532 c.) Rule 17. A preposition is used to introduce a phrase, and join it to the word that the phrase modifies. (544.) Special Rule 17. A preposition is sometimes used simply to introduce a phrase. (544 a.) Rule 18. A co-ordinate conjunction is used to join sentences, or parts of a sentence that have the same construction. (559.) Special Rule 18. A co-ordinate conjunction is sometimes used simply to introduce a sentence. (559 a.) Special Rule 19. The co-ordinate conjunction or is sometimes used to join an appositive noun to the word that it modifies. (559 b.) Special Rule 20. The subordinate conjunction as is sometimes used to introduce a word or a phrase. (560 b.) Rule 19. A responsive is used independently. (568.) |