TABLE OF CONTENTS.

TWENTY-FIVE CAREFULLY GRADED STEPS IN GRAMMAR AND COMPO-
SITION; AND RULES FOR CAPITALIZATION AND PUNCTUATION

AS NEEDED.

1. Analysis and Composition of Sentences with Simple Subjects

and Predicates - Capital Letters, Period, Interrogation Point,

Parts of Speech, Nouns, Verbs, Pronouns

2. Analysis and Composition of Sentences with Subjects modified

by Adjectives

3. Analysis and Composition of Sentences with Predicates modified

by Adverbs

4. Analysis and Composition of Sentences with Subjects and

Predicates modified by Prepositional Phrases -The Para-

graph, Prepositions.

5. Expansion of Adjectives and Adverbs into Phrases, and Con-

traction of Phrases into Adjectives and Adverbs

6. Analysis and Composition of Sentences with Compound Sub-

jects and Predicates - Conjunctions, Interjections, Exclama-

tion Point

7. Analysis and Composition of Sentences with Nouns, Pronouns,
and Adjectives as Complements-Object Complement, Attri-
bute Complement, Narration, Position and Use of Modifiers.

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9-33

33-44

44-60

60-66

66, 67

70-79

79-84, 95-97

8. Analysis and Composition of Sentences with Participles and

Infinitive Phrases — The Participle, Descriptive Writing 102-108

9. Analysis and Composition of Sentences with Nouns and Pro-

nouns as Modifiers - Comma, Argument

115-120

10. Analysis and Composition of Complex Sentences containing

Adjective Clauses

124-128

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12. Analysis and Composition of Complex Sentences containing

Noun Clauses .

136-139

13. Analysis and Composition of Compound Sentences

Inde-

pendent Clauses

140, 141

14. Declarative, Interrogative, Imperative, and Exclamatory Sen-

20. Classes of Conjunctions and of Other Connectives in Sentences

167-170

21. Nouns and Pronouns with all their Modifications in Sentences

176-192

22. Adjectives and Adverbs with their one Modification in Sen-

193-197

197-217

23. Verbs with all their Modifications in Sentences

24. Composition of Sentences in Paragraphs and of Paragraphs

56-60, 86-89, 108-113, 122-124, 133-136, 145, 146,

152-156, 171-174

in Themes

25. Composition of Paragraphs in Letters-Summary of Rules of

Syntax, Proof Marks

REVIEW OF GRADED LESSONS

ABBREVIATIONS.

INDEX

229-246

247-271

272

279

THE teacher is recommended to occupy the time of at least two or three recitations, in talking with his pupils about language, always remembering that, in order to secure the interest of his class, he must allow his pupils to take an active part in the exercise. The teacher should guide the thought of his class; but, if he attempts to do all the talking, he will find, when he concludes, that he has been left to do all the thinking.

We give below a few hints in conducting this talk on language, but the teacher is not expected to confine himself to them. He will, of course, be compelled, in some instances, to resort to various devices in order to obtain from the pupils answers equivalent to those here suggested.

LESSON 1.

Teacher. I will pronounce these three sounds very slowly and distinctly, thus b-u-d. Notice, it is the power, or sound, of the letter, and not its name, that I give. What did you hear?

Pupil.
T.

- I heard three sounds.

Give them. I will write on the board, so that you can see them, three letters - b-u-d. Are these letters, taken separately,

signs to you of anything?

P.

Yes, they are signs to me of the three sounds that I have just heard.

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