9. Form sentences by

(a) choosing a noun; (b) adding a word that asserts,

and expresses action; (c) adding a word that shows how, when, or where the action was performed; (d) placing before the noun a word or words to show what kind of person or thing is named; (e) connecting this sentence to another sentence in which you use a pronoun, an incomplete verb, and a preposition with its object to modify a verb.

10. Name the parts of speech, and tell of what use each is in a sentence.

LESSON XI.

THE INTERJECTION.

1. Mention the words used in these sentences to express surprise, joy, grief, or some other emotion:

He, alas! will forget your kindness.

But, oh! I cannot go.

Hark! I hear some one coming.

O, look! here is the nest!

Pshaw! my pen is broken.

An emotion-word, or exclamation, is not a Part of Speech; it is thrown into a sentence to express sudden or deep feeling. It might be omitted from any sentence without changing the sense. XXII. A word thrown into a sentence to express deep or sudden emotion is called an interjection.*

* Interjection is from inter, between, and jacere, to throw. abbreviate the word interj.

You may

2. What mark is used after an interjection?

3. Use each word of this list as an interjection:

Hurrah!

Woe!

Lo!
Ah!

Ha! Ha!
Pshaw!

Fie!
Help!

4. Read the following poem, and copy the words used as

A little boy hung down his head,
And went and hid behind the bed;
For he stole that pretty nest
From poor little yellow-breast.
And he felt so full of shame,

He didn't like to tell his name.

-LYDIA MARIA CHILD.

LESSON XII.

MORE RULES FOR THE USE OF CAPITALS,

AND OF MARKS.

1. The first word of, and every important word in, the title of a book or paper, the heading of a chapter, or the subject of a composition, should begin with a capital letter; thus, "The Building of the Ship," "Little Folks in Feathers and Fur."

2. The names of important events, of historical periods, or of bodies of men, are written with capitals; thus, “The Middle Ages,” "The Old Guard," "The Grand Army of the Republic," "The Reformation."

3. An adjective or a verb derived from a proper noun should begin with a capital letter; thus, Democratic, African, Christianize.

4. The name of a thing personified should begin with a capital letter: thus, —

"There is a reaper whose name is Death,

He comes with his sickle keen."

5. One line drawn under a word, phrase, or sentence, shows that it is to be printed in Italics; thus,

6. Two lines show that the word, or words, should be in small capitals,

and three lines that large capitals should be used; thus,—

Practice is the only thing that makes perfect, therefore

II. An interjection is merely thrown into a sentence to ex