7. Write five declarative sentences, and use but two words in each sentence. Look over your sentences, and draw a line under every word that states, or declares something.

8. Write five more declarative sentences, and use in each sentence a word that states but does not express action.

9. Write five declarative sentences, and use in each a word that states and expresses action. Draw a line under every word in the last ten sentences that is used to state, or to declare.

10. Write five more declarative sentences, and use in each a word that expresses action but does not state anything.

HOME TASK.

1. Find out what the word assert means, and write with it three words which mean nearly the same thing. 2. Use the word asserts correctly in four written sentences.

EXERCISE 1.

Words that Assert.

1. What does the word assert mean?

2. Put with each of these names a word that asserts some

3. Copy the following, and draw a line under every word

that asserts:

I am alone.

The golden-rod waves on the bank.
Delicate shells lay on the shore.

I crossed the running brook.
The wind whistles.

Birds fly long distances in a day.
He was a man of honor.

The lark thy welcome sings.

Brightly shines the morning sun.

4. Tell which of these groups of words are sentences:

Oxen four feet.

Oxen cloven feet.

Oxen eight shoes.

Cows their cud.

The slates large.

Squirrels nuts and fruit.

The flower white.

1. Why not?

word more.

They early this morning.

2. Make a sentence of each group by using only one

3. Of what use is the added word in each sentence? 4. In which part of each sentence is the word that asserts ?

5. Try to write a declarative sentence without using in the predicate a word that asserts.

Since the subject of a declarative sentence shows what is talked about, and the predicate tells what is said of it, there must be in the predicate of every declarative sentence a word that asserts.

6. When a word in a sentence is used to assert, what is it called?

A word that is used to assert is called a verb.*

* Verb is from verbum, the word.

7. What does the word verb mean?

8. What is a verb?

VII. A word that asserts is a verb.

9. When the subject of a sentence is but one word, what may that word be?

When the subject of a sentence is but one word, that word may be a noun or a pronoun.

10. When the predicate of a sentence is but one word, what must that word be?

When the predicate of a sentence is but one word, that word must be a verb.

4. Why? 5. What kind of word must be used in the predicate of every sentence? 6. Why?

EXERCISE 2.

1. Write five declarative sentences, using but two words in each sentence.

2. Write five declarative sentences having two, or more, words in the predicate of each, and draw a line under every verb used in the ten sentences.

3. Use each of these words as a noun: stone, water, face, skates,

4. Use each of these words as a verb: stone, water, face,

5. When is a word a noun?

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skates,

iron.

iron.

When is a word a verb?

Which may be used alone as the subject of a declarative sentence? As the predicate ?

EXERCISE 3.

Verbal Words.

1. Read from these sentences every word that asserts and expresses action :

The little bird comes to the brook.

He is drinking now.

Arthur told us of his accident.

He was running to the train when he fell.
He usually reaches the station in time.
Giving is more blessed than receiving.
"The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea."
Waiting is harder than working.

The blooming roses filled the air with perfume.
Skating seems to do him no harm.

2. Read from the sentences above every word which asserts but does not express action.

3. Read from the sentences every word which expresses action but does not assert.

4. Which of the words mentioned are verbs? Why? What is a verb?

5. When a word expresses action but does not assert, what is it called?

VIII. A word that expresses action but does not assert is called a verbal word.*

* The word verb is abbreviated vb., and the abbreviation for verbal word is rb. wd.

Learn this proverb, and tell what it means:

"A rolling stone gathers no moss."

EXERCISE 4.

1. Describe your school in a letter written to a child living in London, England.

2. Draw one line under every verbal word, and two lines under every verb used in your letter.

EXERCISE 5.

See Teacher's Edition.

EXERCISE 6.

Incomplete Verbs.

1. What kind of word must be used in the predicate of a declarative sentence? Why? What is a verb?

2. When a word may be used alone as the predicate of a declarative sentence, what must that word be?

Any word that may stand alone as the predicate of a sentence must be a verb; thus,

3. Are there any verbs which cannot be used alone as predicates of sentences?

Verbs like is, are, was, were, need one, or more, words with them to complete the predicate; thus,