3. What is an interrogative sentence?

V. A sentence that is used to ask a question is an interrogative sentence.

4. What is an imperative sentence?

VI. A sentence that is used to give a command, to make a request, or to express a wish or a hope, is an imperative sentence.

5. What rules should guide you in writing sentences? Every sentence should begin with a capital letter.

An interrogative sentence should be followed by an interrogation point, an exclamation by an exclamation point, and every other sentence by a period.

6. Write three kinds of sentences about

8. Learn this couplet:

"And still in my mind this rule shall dwell:
'Whatever I do, I will do it well.'

EXERCISE 1.

1. As you read these sentences, tell what kind of sentence each is: +

Dot your i's and cross your t's.

The old oaken bucket hangs in the well.

What have you in your hand?

Long live the king!

Hail is frozen rain.

Raymond hitched Leo to his sled.

Did Leo draw the sled up the hill?
Do not ask so many questions!

Have I asked too many to-day?

You have asked enough.

2. Change these sentences to the interrogative form:

Anna sews.

Jamie studies French.

We shall camp near Moosehead Lake.
Stanley and Arnold do not go to school.
To-morrow is St. Valentine's day.

3. Change the following to declarative sentences:
Are the boys coasting on the hill?
Have you read Robinson Crusoe?
Did the old man play a hand-organ?
Do lilies-of-the-valley grow in the shade?

Did Dr. Morgan call at six o'clock?

4. Tell what kind of sentence each of these exclamations

Have courage, my boy, to say "No!”

Why will you be so careless!

I was afraid that you would not come!
Oh, mother! Come and see this flower!
What can he be doing!

5. Write ten sentences about things that you saw Saturday, and tell what kind of sentence each is.

LESSON IV.

THE TWO PARTS OF A SENTENCE.

Preceded by an Oral Lesson. See Teacher's Edition.

To form a sentence we must have—

(1) something to speak about.
(2) something to say of it.

In making a sentence we use one, or more, words to show what we and one, or more, words to tell what we say

are speaking of;

of it; thus,

Snow falls.

Does the sun shine?

The fire is almost out.

And every sentence has two parts: one part stands for what is spoken about, and the other part tells what is said in the sentence about that subject; thus,

1. Write a sentence in which you use but two words, and tell of what use each word is in forming the sentence.

2. Write a sentence in which you use one word to show what is spoken of, and two or more words to tell what is said about it.

3. Write a sentence in which you use two or more words to show what is spoken of, and two or more words to tell what is said about that subject.

1. Write five declarative sentences. Draw one line under the part of each sentence that shows about what something is said, and two lines under the part of the sentence that tells what is said about that subject.

We cannot understand a sentence unless we can find out(1) about what something is said.

(2) what is said of it.

2. As you read each of the following sentences, tell — (a) about what something is said.

(b) what is saia in the sentence about that subject: Wax melts. Did Thomas go?

The little girl reads very well.
Will your cousin Anna come too?
Has the bird bathed this morning?

The cage is made of wire.

Does Mary go to the post-office with you?
Is June the longest month in the year?
February is the shortest month.

An old man wishes to speak with you.
Christmas comes but once a year.

A rolling stone gathers no moss.
Long live the king!

May the children come often!

4. Read these three sentences,

Allie and Martha went to Boston,
The farmer sat in his easy-chair,
Coal and wood are used for fuel,

and tell

(a) who went to Boston.

(b) what is said about Allie and Martha.

(c) who sat in his easy-chair.

(d) what is said of the farmer.

(e) what are used for fuel.

(f) what is said about coal and wood.

3. Try to write a sentence in which you do not use a word, or words, to show who or what is spoken of; or a word, or words, to tell what is said about that person or thing.

4. Of how many parts is every sentence made up?

Two.

5. What are they?

The subject and the predicate.

6. Of what use is the subject of a sentence?

The subject represents that about which something is said.

7. Of what use is the predicate?

The predicate tells what is said (about the person or thing represented by the subject).*

NOTE.The subject of conversation may be a person, a

place, a thing, a material, an action, or anything that we can think of. The subject of the sentence is always a word, or two, or more words. The predicate tells what is said about the subject of conversation, not what is said about the subject of the sentence.

* Predicate means what is stated or declared.