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Name the subject and the predicate in each of the sentences on the opposite page.

Copy the following subjects and supply the predicates.

1. Daisies and buttercups

2. Jack-in-the-Pulpit

3. The poison ivy

4. The boys and girls of our school

5. Walter and his mother

Copy the following predicates and supply the subjects.

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was the first president of the United States. is very useful.

discovered America.

wrote many interesting stories for children. is a good book for boys and girls.

Copy the subjects in the following list, and choose for each subject a suitable predicate from the list of predicates.

SUBJECTS

1. The mining of coal

2. Cotton

3. New York

4. The Star-Spangled Banner

5. Silver and gold

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PREDICATES

is raised largely in the South.
is our national song.

is the chief industry of Pennsylvania.
are found in the Rocky Mountains.

is the largest city in the United States.

The subject of a sentence is the part about which something is stated.

The predicate of a sentence is the part which states something about the subject.

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STUDYING THE SIMPLE SUBJECT AND THE

VERB

1. Our American soldiers fought hard during the war. 2. When they were not fighting they often played games.

3. Twenty-five thousand baseballs were sent to France at one time.

What is the subject of the first sentence? Of the second? Of the third? Ask yourself the question, “Is it the part about which an assertion is made?”

Read the predicate of each sentence. Does it make an assertion about the subject?

Find the one particular word in each subject about which the assertion is made. This word is the simple subject.

Find the word in each predicate which makes the statement about the subject. This word is the verb. The simple subject and the verb are the sentence

masters.

They control the sentence thought.

Find the simple subject and the verb in the following sentences.

1. Into each life some rain must fall.

2. Silent and soft and slow,

Descends the snow.

3. The Star-Spangled Banner in triumph shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

4. In autumn the ships of the merchants came with kindred and friends.

5. In the midst of the scene a breathless messenger

entered.

6. All in the valley of death

Rode the six hundred.

7. In your hearts is the happiness of the birds.

8. The robins filled all the blossoming orchards with their glee.

9. The old house by the lindens

Stood silent in the shade.

The simple subject is the one particular word about which something is stated.

The simple predicate is the verb.

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TALKING ABOUT PLAYS

How many of you have seen A Poor Little Rich Girl acted on the screen or on the stage? If you have seen it, you may prepare to tell the class about the organ grinder's visit to the poor little rich girl. Be sure to tell it so that your classmates will enjoy the fun of it.

If you have not seen this play, you may select a funny incident from some other play or moving picture

that you have seen. Your teacher must approve of your selection before you prepare it.

On page 210 are the titles of some plays that boys and girls like.

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1. Miss George Washington.

2. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.

3. Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch.

4. Penrod.

5. Seventeen.

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USING THE VOICE

TH (VOCAL)

The th that you have learned to form and speak correctly has a twin brother. The brothers are so exactly alike that when you see them you cannot tell them apart. But neither one can pretend to be the other, as mischievous twins sometimes do. For, while they look alike, they sound quite unlike.

In these sentences that you have just read, the other sound of th belongs to the words the, that, brother, them, neither, other, they.

1. The new th is made by the same position of the tongue as the first one you learned.

2. Tell what the position is.

3. Place your tongue in position and then say after your teacher, the, that, them, they.

4. Notice that this sound of th is made by blowing out between the tongue and teeth, just as the other was made. At the same time you hear a sound coming from the throat. Put your fingers on your throat as you pronounce that, and you will feel the vibrations.

5. Breathe in deeply but gently.

6. Place the tongue in position for th.

7. Breathe out on the th, making the throat sound. 8. Be sure not to let the tongue come outside of the teeth.

Write down all the words you can think of that contain this sound of th. It is called the voiced or hard th. The sound of th in thin is called the soft or aspirate th.

Tell the words you have written, watching carefully the position of your tongue as you speak each word.

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READING A POEM

There is a beautiful little song in Shakespeare's play, As You Like It. It is sung by one of the courtiers belonging to the court of the banished Duke, who is living in the Forest of Arden. Here is a stanza from it: Who doth ambition shun And loves to lie in the sun,

Seeking the food he eats,

And pleased with what he gets,

Come hither! Come hither! Come hither!

Here shall he see

No enemy

But winter and rough weather.

In this stanza of the song, the singer invites anyone who is tired of the life of courts and cities, where everyone must work hard to gain wealth, or position, or the good will of his king or duke, to come to the woods where life is simple.

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