SENTENCE-BUILDING.
+To the Teacher.—+Call attention to the agreement of verbs with compound subjects. Require the pupils to justify the verb-forms in Lesson 36 and elsewhere. See Notes, pp. 165-167.
Write predicates for the following compound subjects.
Snow and hail; leaves and branches; a soldier or a sailor; London and
Paris.
Write compound predicates for the following subjects.
The sun; water; fish; steamboats; soap; farmers; fences; clothes.
Write subjects for the following compound predicates.
Live, feel, and grow; judges and rewards; owes and pays; inhale and exhale; expand and contract; flutters and alights; fly, buzz, and sting; restrain or punish.
Write compound subjects before the following predicates.
May be seen; roar; will be appointed; have flown; has been recommended.
Write compound predicates after the following compound subjects.
Boys, frogs, and horses; wood, coal, and peat; Maine and New Hampshire;
Concord, Lexington, and Bunker Hill; pins, tacks, and needles.
Write compound subjects before the following compound predicates.
Throb and ache; were tried, condemned, and hanged; eat, sleep, and dress.
Choose your own material and write five sentences, each having a compound subject and a compound predicate.