Graded Lessons In English An Elementary English Grammar Consist

1. The whistles completed, we were marched with music to the place. 2. The "Jacks" grew in this place. 3. It was a place low, damp, and boggy, with a brook hidden away under ove...

+_Semicolon_+.--Independent clauses (1) when slightly connected, or (2) when themselves divided by the comma, must be separated by the semicolon. Use the semicolon (3) between s...

- The heavy horizontal line (for the main clause) is formed with equals signs (==). - Other solid vertical lines are formed with minus signs (--). - Diagonal lines are formed wi...

Before Lesson 8 is assigned, the pupils may be required to note, in Lessons 6 and 7, the subjects that add _s_ to denote more than one, and then to mark the changes that occur i...

The vessels carrying the blood from the heart are called arteries. The book prized above all other books is the Bible. Rivers rising west of the Rocky Mts. flow into the Pacific...

Illustrate, by the use of _a_, _b_, and _p_, the difference between the _sounds_ of letters and their _names_. Letters are the signs of what? What is an idea? A _spoken_ word is...

1. Cotton is raised in Egypt, India, and the United States. 2. The navy of Hiram brought gold from Ophir. 3. The career of Cromwell was short. 4. Most mountain ranges run parall...

A majority of modern writers use the _indicative_ forms instead of the _subjunctive_, in all of the tenses, unless it may be the _present_. The _subjunctive_ forms of the verb _...

_Both men were wrong_. Let us omit _men_ and say, _Both were wrong_. You see the meaning is not changed--_both_ is here equivalent to _both men_, that is, it performs the office...

We have here prepared the foundations of sentences which you are to complete by writing two or more suitable modifiers to each subject. Be careful to choose and arrange your mat...

+Remark+.--Some of the connectives below are conjunctions proper; some are relative pronouns; and some are adverbs or adverb phrases, which, in addition to their office as modif...

+Oral Parsing+.--_Flowers_ is a noun, because----; _preach_ is a verb, because----; _to_ is a _preposition_, because it shows the relation, in sense, between _us_ and _preach;_...

We suggest that, from two or more paragraphs of some interesting and instructive article, leading sentences be selected, and that the pupils be required to explain the office an...

By joining the word _self_ to the possessive forms _my, thy, your_, and to the objective forms _him, her, it_, the +_Compound Personal Pronouns_+ are formed. They have no posses...

+The Description+.--How does the description above impress you? Are only characteristic parts and features selected? Are these few features enough to give you a distinct and viv...