Round, frolicsome, first, industrious, jolly, idle, skillful, each, the, faithful, an, kind, one, tall, ancient, modern, dancing, mischievous, stationary, nimble, several, slanting, parallel, oval, every.
Build simple sentences in which the following descriptive adjectives shall be employed as attribute complements. Let some of these attributes be compound.
Restless, impulsive, dense, rare, gritty, sluggish, dingy, selfish,
clear, cold, sparkling, slender, graceful, hungry, friendless.
Build simple sentences in which the following descriptive adjectives shall be employed.
Some of these adjectives have the form of participles, and some are derived from proper nouns.
+CAPITAL LETTER—RULE.—An Adjective derived from a proper noun must begin with a capital letter+.
Shining, moving, swaying, bubbling, American, German, French, Swiss,
Irish, Chinese.
LESSON 74.
CLASSES OF VERBS.
+Hints for Oral Instruction+.—The man caught makes no complete assertion, and is not a sentence. If I add the object complement fish, I complete the assertion and form a sentence—The man caught fish. The action expressed by caught passes over from the man to the fish. Transitive means passing over, and so all those verbs that express an action that passes over from a doer to something which receives, are called +Transitive verbs+.