+Model.+— Nouns.
Wood |
Paper |
Oil |
Houses + burn or burns.
Coal |
Leaves |
Matches |
Clothes |
+Remark.+—Notice that, when the subject adds s or es to denote more than one, the predicate does not take s. Note how it would sound if both should add s.
+Every subject+ of a sentence is a +noun+, or some word or words used as a noun. But not every noun in a sentence is a subject.
+Direction.+—Select and write all the nouns and pronouns, whether subjects or not, in the sentences given in Lesson 18.
In writing them observe the following rules:—
+CAPITAL LETTER—RULE.—Proper, or individual, names and words derived from them begin with capital letters.+
+PERIOD and CAPITAL LETTER—RULE.—Abbreviations generally begin with capital letters and are always followed by the period.+
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