EXAMPLE. Milton was a great poet. Interrogative. Was Milton a great poet? Exclamatory. What a great poet Milton was! 1. Sir Isaac Newton was a great philosopher. 2. Benjamin Franklin wrote many excellent maxims. 3. A good boy will study hard to learn his lesson. 4. Pope has left us many admirable lines.

5. America has attained a desirable rank among nations of the world.

6. Julia entered the parlor gracefully.

7. Philadelphia is a large city.

8. Gratitude is a noble emotion.

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Convert the following declarative into the corre sponding interrogative and imperative sentences: EXAMPLE. Stephen prepares his lesson well. Interrogative. Does Stephen prepare his lesson well? Imperative. Let Stephen prepare his lesson well. 9. The army marches.

10. The dog barks.

11. The cannon roar in honor of victory.

12. The books are ready.

13. His good fortune makes him happy.

14. They did their duty.

15. Bees gather honey from flowers.

LESSON XLI.

EXERCISE.

WRITE six declarative, six imperative, six interrogative, and six exclamatory sentences, each of

which shall contain one of the following words in order:

EXAMPLE. Words-happy, speak, come, loss.
Sentences. Declarative-The good are happy.
Imperative-Let no one speak.

Interrogative-Has my brother come?

(For the answers to these questions, see the first eleven Lessons.)

WHAT is an article? a noun ? a pronoun ? an adjective? a verb ? an adverb ? a conjunction? a preposition? an interjection ?

What word prefixed to a verb shows that it is in the infinitive mood?

To. Thus, to eat, to keep, to save, are in the infinitive mood.

EXERCISE.

1. Write five sentences containing a subject, a transitive verb, and an object; as," The bee makes honey."

2. Write five sentences containing an adjective, a noun, a transitive verb, and an object; as, "The provident ant lays up her store."

3. Write five sentences containing a subject, a transitive verb, an object, and an adverb; as, "Louise studied her grammar faithfully."

4. Write five sentences containing a verb in the infinitive mood; as, I tried to learn my lesson."

5. Write five sentences in which the subject will contain two nouns connected by the conjunction and; as, "The lion and the tiger are the fiercest of animals."

LESSON XLIII.

VARIETY OF ARRANGEMENT.

How may we obtain variety in a succession of sentences? By employing a different arrangement of the words or clauses, or a different construction.

When the variety consists in the arrangement, what is it called?

Variety of Arrangement.

When the variety consists in a difference of construction, what is it called?

Variety of Expression.

EXERCISE.

Arrange the words in the following sentences differently, but in such a way that the meaning may remain the same:

EXAMPLE.

The night was dark.

Paris is the capital of France.

Transposed. Dark was the night.

The capital of France is Paris.

1. Furious was the storm.

2. Mournfully the wind waved among the branches. 3. The longest river in Europe is the Volga.

4. Than virtue nothing is lovelier.

5. Here lies the lamented Warren.

6. Grammar teaches us to speak correctly, and to write accurately.

7. Of ancient traders, the first and most expert were the Phoenicians.

8. Formerly, it required a week for a person to go from New-York to Albany.

9. From Corsica the Carthaginians obtained honey and raisins.

10. At last summer has set in.

11. Suddenly a shout arose.

12. We cannot prize a good character too highly. 13. Perhaps you left it at home.

14. The sheriff seized his prisoner roughly.

15. Do you not know me, Mary?

16. How careful ought we to be to avoid vice!

17. Let me go, I beseech you.

18. Generally, the North American Indians are dressed in buffalo-skins.

19. There hangs the picture of my father

20. Here stands your servant.

LESSON XLIV

VARIETY OF ARRANGEMENT.

EXERCISE.

ARRANGE the clauses in the following sentences differently, but in such a way that the meaning

may remain the same. The pupil must remember to make such changes in the punctuation as may be required by the transposition.

EXAMPLE. Well pleased with my visit, I returned home. Transposed. I returned home, well pleased with my

visit.

1. Never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day.

2. Sir Isaac Newton, one of the greatest mathema- . ticians the world has ever produced, was born in Woolsthorpe, England, on Christmas day, a. D. 1642.

3. Cæsar, after having reached the pinnacle of human greatness, perished by assassination.

4. My good friend, where are you going?

5. Washington is buried at Mount Vernon, on the banks of the Potomac River.

6. During the night, the enemy moved their camp. 7. She sunk down in the road, exhausted by fatigue. 8. Cannon were first used about 500 years ago, at the battle of Cressy.

9. By the code of Lycurgus, all the Spartans were compelled to eat at a common table.

10. In every part of Europe, we find the French lan-* guage spoken.

11. While the clouds thus hid the moon from view, I heard a loud groan.

12. Improve every moment while you are in school. 13. We must strive hard, if we wish to excel. 14. If Columbus had been less persevering, the Western Continent might not yet have been discovered.

15. By the enterprising merchants of Venice, the first bank was established.