Glass is hard, brittle, and transparent.
Coal, iron, Niagara Falls, flowers, war, ships.
+Direction+.—Compose sentences containing these nouns as attribute complements:—
Emperor, mathematician, Longfellow, Richmond.
+Direction+.—Compose sentences, using these verbs as predicates, and these pronouns as attribute complements:—
Is, was, might have been; I, we, he, she, they.
+Remark+.—Notice that these forms of the pronouns—I, we, thou, he, she, ye, they, and who—are never used as object complements or as principal words in prepositional phrases; and that me, us, thee, him, her, them, and whom are never used as subjects or as attribute complements of sentences.
+Direction+.—Compose sentences in which each of the following verbs shall have two complements—the one an object complement, the other an objective complement:—
Let some object complements be pronouns, and let some objective complements be introduced by as.
+Model+.—They call me chief. We regard composition as very important.