EXERCISES IN LANGUAGE. LESSON 22. USE OF THE COMMA. ORAL EXERCISE. 1. Peaches, plums, and grapes grow in California. 2. Horses, cows, and sheep eat grass. 3. The farmer uses a hoe, a rake, a spade, and a plow. In the first sentence what three things are mentioned one after another? In the second? How many things are so mentioned in the third statement? In the fourth? By what mark are these words separated in the first statement? Look closely at the other statements, then tell what marks you find and how they are used. Three or more things mentioned one after another make a SERIES. The words in a series are separated by commas. LESSON 23. WRITTEN EXERCISE. Fill these blanks with series of words: 1. 2. 3. 4. Lambs Use each of these series of words in a question: 1. roses, pinks, violets, and daisies. 2. robins, linnets, and swallows. 3. run, jump, and play. 4. Monterey, Gilroy, and Oakland. COMBINING STATEMENTS. 23 Select the series in each of these statements and questions, and write it by itself: 1. Pens, pencils, books, and slates are used in school. 2. Millie can read, spell, write, and sing. 3. Do boys like tops, marbles, and kites? 4. Lily, Add, James, Fred, and Harry are at grandma's. 5. Where are father's hat, coat, and cane? I like apples. How many times have we used the words I like in these four statements? Tell these four things in such a way that we need not say I like more than once. What new word have we put in this statement? Give the statement, using and only once. better? Which sounds How many names have we in our statement? What do we call several names mentioned one after another? Make one statement of each of the following pairs of state ments: Farmers sow wheat. 5. Farmers sow barley. LESSON 25. WRITTEN EXERCISE. Make one statement of each of these groups, and use the comma when needed: ATTENTION WORDS. The chicken eats wheat. The chicken eats corn. The chicken eats barley. The chicken eats worms. LESSON 26. ATTENTION WORDS. ORAL EXERCISE. 1. Albert, did you bring in the wood? 2. I am going to the orchard, Alice. 3. I will go with you, Harry, if father is willing. What word in number one calls the attention of the per son spoken to? Whose attention is called in number two? Give the attention word in number three. Read each without the attention word. By what mark are the attention words separated from the other words? Supply attention words in the following: , where are the flowers? James has a new foot-ball, Will you sing,, if I will play for you? and do you wish to ride with me? LESSON 27. WRITTEN EXERCISE. 1. Write three questions with an attention word at the beginning of each. 2. Make two statements and put an attention word at the end of each. 3. Write this statement three times, putting an attention word in a different place each time: It is raining so hard that I cannot go out to play. LESSON 28. THE COMMAND. ORAL EXERCISE. 1. You are carrying my basket, John. 2. Will you carry my basket, John? 3. John, carry my basket. Which group of words is a question? Which group is a statement? Which one tells or commands John to do something? You may tell or 1. open the door. command some one to: 2. shut the window. 3. put the book on the table. Give three other commands. How does the command begin and end? LESSON 29. WRITTEN EXERCISE. Make commands of these words. When the attention words occur, separate them from the rest of the command by commas: |