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.
LESSON 39.
COMPLEMENTS.
+Hints for Oral Instruction+.—When we say, The sun gives, we express no complete thought. The subject sun is complete, but the predicate gives does not make a complete assertion. When we say, The sun gives light, we do utter a complete thought. The predicate gives is completed by the word light. Whatever fills out, or completes, we call a +Complement+. We will therefore call light the complement of the predicate. As light completes the predicate by naming the thing acted upon, we call it the +Object Complement+.
Expressions like the following may be written on the board, and by a series of questions the pupils may be made to dwell upon these facts till they are thoroughly understood.
The officer arrested ——-; the boy found ——-; Charles saw ——-; coopers make ——-.