COMPOUND PREDICATE AND SUBJECT. 5. Soldiers, flee. 6. Indians hunt. 139 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? 141 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. 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. 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. 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. 5. Comets appear. 6. Darkness came. 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. 143 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. 3. Guns were fired when peace was proclaimed. 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. 3. They laughed very heartily. |