AND EXERCISES IN ENGLISH GRAMMAR BY ANNIE WEBB BLANTON INSTRUCTOR IN ENGLISH, NORTH TEXAS STATE NORMAL SCHOOL CHARLES E. MERRILL CO. 44-60 EAST TWENTY-THIRD STREET AUTHOR'S NOTE The exercises and definitions in this book are intended to supply deficiencies in the text-book, or to furnish a course for a brief review of grammar. While each exercise gives practice chiefly on the subject designated by its title, material for review of most of the topics previously studied is included in many of the exercises. Sentences for practice in analysis can be found in each SECTION. OUTLINE FOR ANALYSIS OF THE SENTENCE A. THE SIMPLE SENTENCE I. INTRODUCTION. 1. Kind of sentence. 2. Complete subject and complete predicate. II. ANALYSIS OF THE SUBJECT. 1. Subject noun or pronoun. 2. Modifiers of the subject noun or pronoun. III. ANALYSIS OF THE PREDICATE. 1. Predicate verb and its complement or objects. 2. Modifiers of the predicate verb. 3. Modifiers of each complement or object. B. THE COMPOUND SENTENCE I. Give the kind of sentence. Mention the clauses of which it is composed, and state how they are connected. II. Analyze each clause as if it were a simple sentence. C. THE COMPLEX SENTENCE I. Give the kind of sentence and tell of what clauses it is made up, stating, as each clause is mentioned, whether it is independent or dependent. II. Proceed as in the analysis of the simple sentence treating the dependent clauses as single noun, adjective, or adverbial elements, as parts of the independent clause or clauses. III. Take up each dependent clause, stating what kind of clause it is, how it is introduced, and how it is connected. with its independent clause, and then analyze it as if it were a single sentence. UNIVERSITY III. Elements consisting of more than one word. 1. The Clause. (1) Independent. (2) Dependent. 2. The Phrase. (1) Adjective. (2) Adverbial. (3) Independent. IV. Elements consisting of one word-the parts of speech. 1. Principal Elements. (1) Noun. (2) Pronoun. (3) Verb. 2. Modifiers. (4) Adjective. |