PRACTICE IN SIMPLE SENTENCES. 11. A sentence when written should always begin with a capital letter, and nearly always end with a full stop. A sentence which is a question ends with a note of interrogation (?), and one which is an exclamation ends with a note of admira. tion or exclamation (!). Make sentences about Exercise 15. Fire. The sun. The moon. The sea. Bread. Butter. Cheese. Wool. Cotton. Linen. Boots. Hats. A coat. The table. The window. The desk. Pens. Ink. Paper. Pencils. Lead. Iron. Tin. Copper. Gold. Silver. A knife. The clock. Books. Coal. The servant. A chair. Breakfast. Dinner. Supper. The apple. The pear. Oranges. Lemons. Water. Milk. Coffee. Tea. Cocoa. Maps. Pictures. Exercise 16. Make sentences introducing the following pairs of words : Fire, grate. Sun, earth. Moon, night. Bread, flour. Pen, steel. Wool, sheep. Cotton, America. Boots, leather. Ink, black. Paper, rags. Walk, fields. Pair, gloves. Learning, to paint. Brother, arm. Wheel, cart. London, Thames. Bristol, Avon. Dublin, Ireland. Paris, France. Columbus, America. Shakespeare, poet. Threw, window. Useful, metal. Carpet, new. Wall, bricklayer. Road, rough. Lock, cupboard. Jug, full. Britain, island. Pencils, made. Drew, map. Exercise 17. Write complete sentences in answer to the following ques tions: [EXAMPLE. Question. What is your name? Answer. My name is John Smith. If you said simply 'John Smith' your answer would not be a complete sentence.] do What is your name? When were you born? How old are you? Where you live? How long have you lived there? What school do you attend? Of what games are you fond? During what part of the year is football played? And cricket? And lawn-tennis? French? And German? Can you swim? play the piano? Do you like the sea? Have you read Robinson Crusoe '? And the second? And the third? Are you learning Latin? And And row? And ride? And Have you ever been on the sea? What is the first meal of the day? Where does the sun rise? And set? How many days are there in a week? And in a year? And in leap year? How often does leap year come? Exercise 18. Make three sentences about each of the following The place where you live. England. London. The River Thames. France. India. Australia. America. A horse. A cow. A dog. A sheep. A lion. A tiger. Spring. Summer. Autumn. Winter. The sun. The moon. Stars. Holidays. Boys' games. Girls' games. A railway. A steam-engine. The sea. A ship. Flowers. Fruits. A garden. Wool. Cotton. Leather. Silk. Water. Milk. Rice. Wheat. Books. Tea. Coffee. Sugar. Cocoa. Paper. Houses. Bricks. Stone. A field. Guns. A watch. A farm. Knives. Bees. Shell-fish. Fresh-water fish. Coal. Glass. Gas. The United States. New York. The Mississippi. Canada. Indians. Exercise 19. Combine each of the following sets of facts into a sentence 1 : Thus :-Joseph Addison was born at Milston in Wiltshire, in the year 1672, 1 These facts should be combined into sentences in various ways, thus :- SENTENCES COMBINED. 12. A number of simple sentences may sometimes be combined so as to form one; thus: Simple sentences. The girl was little. She lost her doll. Sentence formed by combining them. The little girl lost her pretty new doll yesterday afternoon. 13. The combined sentence tells us as much as the separate sentences, and tells it in a shorter, clearer, and more pleasing way. Exercise 20. Combine, as in Par. 12, the following sets of sentences: 1. The man is tall. He struck his head. He was entering a carriage. The carriage was low. 2. Tom had a slate. It was new. He broke it. He broke it this morning. 3. The cow is black. She is grazing. She is grazing in a meadow. The meadow is beside the river. 4. The apples are ripe. They grow in an orchard. The orchard is Mr. Brown's. 5. The corn is green. It is waving. The breeze causes it to wave. The breeze is gentle. 6. The father is kind. He bought some clothes. The clothes were new. He bought them for the children. The children were good. 7. The boy was careless. He made blots. The blots were big. They were made on his book. The book was clean. 8. The bucket was old. It was made of oak. It fell. It fell into the well. The well was deep. 9. Polly Flinders was little. She sat. She sat among the cinders. She was warming her toes. Her toes were pretty. They were little. 10. Tom Tucker is little. He is singing. He is singing for his supper. 11. There were three wise men. They lived at Gotham. They went to sea. They went in a bowl. 12. The man came. He was the man in the moon. He came down soon. He came too soon. 18. I saw ships. There were three. They came sailing. They sailed by. I saw them on Christmas day. I saw them in the morning. 14. Cole was a king. He was old. He was a merry soul. 15. A great battle began. It was between the English and the Scotch. It began next morning. It began at break of day. It was at Bannockburn. 14. Sentences are often combined by means of Conjunctions or other connecting words. 15. Sentences are combined, by means of the Conjunction and, thus :— 16. Note the use of the comma when more than two words or sets of words are joined by and : I met Fred, Will and George. Faith, Hope and Charity are sometimes called the Christian Graces. I bought a pound of tea, two pounds of coffee, ten pounds of sugar and a peck of flour. 17. The comma is used in the same way with or. Exercise 21. Combine the following sets of sentences by means of the Conjunction and: 1. Jack went up the hill. Jill went up the hill. 2. The lion beat the unicorn. The lion drove the unicorn out of town. 3. Edward is honest. 4. The child is tired. Edward is truthful. The child is sleepy. 5. Tom will pay us a visit. will pay us a visit. Ethel will pay us a visit. Their parents 6. The grocer sells tea. He sells coffee. He sells sugar. 7. Maud deserves the prize. She will get it. |