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question, What swim, sink, hunt, etc.?
1. ---- swim. 2. ---- sinks. 3. ---- hunt. 4. ---- skate. 5. ---- jingle. 6. ---- decay. 7. ---- climb. 8. ---- creep. 9. ---- run. 10. ---- walk. 11. ---- snort. 12. ---- kick. 13. ---- flashes. 14. ---- flutters. 15. ---- paddle. 16. ---- toil. 17. ---- terrifies. 18. ---- rages. 19. ---- expand. 20. ---- jump. 21. ---- hop. 22. ---- bellow. 23. ---- burns. 24. ---- evaporates.
This exercise may profitably be extended by requiring the pupils to supply several subjects to each predicate.

LESSON 9.
SENTENCE-BUILDING--Continued.
Construct sentences by supplying a predicate to each of the following subjects.
Ask yourself the question, Artists do what?
1. Artists ----. 2. Sailors ----. 3. Tides ----. 4. Whales ----. 5. Gentlemen ----. 6. Swine ----. 7. Clouds ----. 8. Girls ----. 9. Fruit ----. 10. Powder ----. 11. Hail ----. 12. Foxes ----. 13. Water ----. 14. Frost ----. 15. Man ----. 16. Blood ----. 17. Kings ----. 18. Lilies ----. 19. Roses ----. 20. Wheels ----. 21. Waves ----. 22. Dew ----. 23. Boys ----. 24. Volcanoes ----. 25. Storms ----. 26. Politicians ----. 27. Serpents ----. 28. Chimneys ----. 29. Owls ----. 30. Rivers ----. 31. Nations ----. 32. Indians ----. 33. Grain ----. 34. Rogues ----. 34. Volcanoes ----. 35. Rome ----. 36. Briars ----.
This exercise may be extended by requiring the pupils to supply several predicates to each subject.

LESSON 10.
REVIEW QUESTIONS.
Of what two parts does a sentence consist? What is the subject of a sentence? What is the predicate of a sentence? What is the analysis of a sentence?
What is a diagram? What rule for the use of capital letters have you learned? What rule for the period?
Impromptu Exercise.
Let the pupils "choose sides," as in a spelling match. Let the teacher select predicates from Lesson 8, and give them alternately to the pupils thus arranged. The first pupil prefixes to his word whatever suitable subjects he can think of, the teacher judging of their fitness and keeping the count. This pupil now rises and remains standing until some one else, on his side or the other, shall have prefixed to his word a greater number of apt subjects. The strife is to see who shall be standing at the close of the match, and which side shall have furnished the greater number of subjects. The exercise may be continued with the subjects of Lesson 9. Each pupil is to be limited to the same time--one or two minutes.

LESSON 11.
ANALYSIS.
The +predicate+ sometimes contains +more than one word+.
Analyze and diagram according to the model.
+Model+.--Socrates was poisoned.
Socrates | was poisoned ============|================ |
This is a sentence, because it expresses a thought. Socrates is the subject, because ----; was poisoned is the predicate, because ----. [Footnote: The word because--suggesting a reason--should be dropped from these "+Models+" whenever it may lead to mere mechanical repetition.]
1. Napoleon was banished. 2. Andre was captured. 3. Money is circulated. 4. Columbus was imprisoned. 5. Acorns are sprouting. 6. Bells are tolled. 7. Summer has come. 8. Sentences may be analyzed. 9. Clouds are reddening. 10. Air may be weighed. 11. Jehovah shall reign. 12. Corn is planted. 13. Grammarians will differ. 14. Snow is falling. 15. Leaves are rustling. 16. Children will prattle. 17. Crickets are chirping. 18. Eclipses have been foretold. 19. Storms may abate. 20. Deception may have been practiced. 21. Esau was hated. 22. Treason should have been punished. 23. Bees are humming. 24. Sodom might have been spared.

LESSON 12.
SENTENCE-BUILDING.
+To the Teacher+.--Continue oral and written exercises in agreement. See Notes, pp. 163,164.
Prefix the little helping words in the second column to such of the more important words in the third column as with them will make complete predicates, and join these predicates to all subjects in the first column with which they will unite to make good sense.
1 | 2 | 3 -------------|-----------------|------------ Burgoyne | are | woven. Henry Hudson | was | defeated. Sparrows | can be | condensed. Comets | is | inhaled. Time | have been | worn. Turbans | may be | slacked. Lime | has been | wasted. Steam | could have been | seen. Air | must have been | deceived. Carpets | were | quarreling.

LESSON 13.
Point out the subject and the predicate of each sentence in Lessons 28, 31, 34.
Look first for the word that asserts, and then, by putting who or what before this predicate, the subject may easily be found.
+To the Teacher+.--Most violations of the rules of concord come from a failure to recognize the relation of subject and predicate when these parts are transposed or are separated by other words. Such constructions should therefore receive special attention. See Notes, pp. 164, 165.
Introduce the class to the Parts of Speech before the close of this recitation. See "Hints for Oral