COMPOUND PREDICATE AND SUBJECT.

5. Soldiers, flee.

6. Indians hunt.

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7. Treason should be punished.

8. Come, Harold.

A short way of showing analysis is by means of lines and dots. This is called diagraming. Eclipses are foretold.

The (X) is used to show that the subject is not expressed.

Diagram the eight sentences which you have analyzed in this

lesson.

LESSON 38.

COMPOUND PREDICATE AND SUBJECT.

1. Colts run and jump.

2. Lions and elephants roar.

3. Books and pictures please and instruct.

How many predicates in sentence one? How many subjects?

How many subjects in sentence two? How many predi

cates?

How many subjects and how many predicates in sen

tence three?

In the following sentences, tell the number of predicates and subjects in each:

1. Wheat, barley, and oats grow and ripen. 2. Merchants buy and sell. 3. Snow and ice melt. 4. Shells, moss, and pebbles were collected. 5. Children work, play, eat, and rest.

A sentence with two or more predicates joined by a conjunction has a Compound Predicate.

A sentence with two or more subjects joined by a conjunction has a Compound Subject.

ANALYSIS.

LESSON 39.

And, in these sentences, joins the parts of the compound subjects and predicates, and is therefore a connective. The cross (X) is used to indicate that and is understood.

First analyze orally, according to model in Lesson 34, then diagram the following sentences:

1. Farmers, miners, and manufacturers work. 2. Flowers bloom and die. 3. Spring, summer, autumn, and winter come. 4. Alexander fought and died. 5. Tempests and torrents rage. 6. Seasons come and go. 7. Antony and Cleopatra came. 8. Do rain and hail fall? 9. Run and jump, children. 10. May Charlie and Fred go? 11. Does water ripple and murmur?

3. Ants labor.

4. Ants labor diligently.

In sentence one, select the predicate.

In sentence two, what word has been joined to the predi

cate to show how the clouds float?

MODIFIED PREDICATE.

In sentence three, what is the predicate?

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In sentence four, what word is joined to the predicate to modify its meaning by showing how ants labor?

In the following sentences, select the words that are joined to the predicates to modify their meaning:

1. Glaciers move slowly.
2. Truth always conquers.
3. Youth passes rapidly.
4. Constance came forward.
5. Light travels rapidly.

6. Nero reigned cruelly.

7. Cato was brutally murdered.

In the following sentences, select the phrases that are joined to the predicates to modify their meaning:

1. Oranges grow near Los Angeles.
2. Gold is found in California.
3. Toys come from Germany.
4. They returned in great haste.
5. Bruce learned from the spider.

6. Joy comes with the dawning.

7. Paul Revere rode through the night.

In the following select the clauses that are joined to predicates to modify their meaning:

1. The Persians fled when they saw the enemy.

2. Poverty is found where idleness reigns.
3. When judges disagree, who shall decide?

4. Daylight faded as the last gun was fired.

5. Remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. 6. The tree grows as the twig is bent.

Words, phrases, or clauses joined to predicates to limit their meaning, are called MODIFIERS of the predicate.

ANALYSIS.

LESSON 41.

Enlarge the following sentences by modifying each predicate, first by a word, then by a phrase, and then by a clause:

MODEL:

Leaves fall.

Leaves fall quietly. Leaves fall in autumn. Leaves fall

when autumn comes.

1. The Spanish fought.
2. A picture was painted.
3. Emerson wrote.
4. Hurricanes rage.

5. Comets appear.

6. Darkness came.
7. The wind whistled.
8. Men toil.

9. School opens.

10. Fruit ripens.

Diagram the following sentences:

1. She chatters incessantly. 3. Tigers creep stealthily.

2. God is everywhere.

4. Bicycles move noiselessly.

5.. Winds blow fiercely.

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MODIFIED MODIFIERS.

3. Wheat is shipped from Chicago.

4. William went from Normandy to England. 5. Paris is in France.

6. Ships sail across oceans.

7. Pomegranates grow on shrubs.

3. Leaves fall when autumn comes.

1. Misery abides where indolence reigns.
2. When winds blew trees fell.

3. Guns were fired when peace was proclaimed.
4. While men fight nations must mourn.
5. Come where flowers are blooming.
6. He returned as daylight disappeared.
7. Trout are found where streams ripple.

LESSON 43.

Modifiers may themselves be modified.

Diagram the following sentences according to the model given below:

Snow melts very rapidly.

Snow

melts

rapidly.

very

1. He wrote exceedingly well.
2. Alfred reigned most successfully.

3. They laughed very heartily.
4. Brooks babble merrily along.