69. "I wish I was in Dixie!" 70. Neither the horse nor the ox are capable of reasoning. 71. When I asked, "Who can answer the question?" all shouted, "Me." 72. A fair wind is the cause of a vessel sailing. 73. I speak of Butler, he who wrote "Hudibras." 74. It was not us that played truant. 75. Every one must answer for themselves. 76. Everybody has their troubles. 77. The child whom we met is quite sick. 78. A butterfly, which thought himself an accomplished traveller, happened to alight on a beehive. 79. Earth existed first in a state of chaos. 80. I can speak both the French and German languages. 81. Read on the fourth and fifth page. 82. A pink is a delicate flower. 83. What sort of a bird is a grouse? 84. Macaulay is a better historian than a poet. 85. The clerk may make a memoranda of it. 86. I have lost my new pair of boots. 87. The company have just erected a fine brick four-story building. 88. Lake Superior is larger than any lake in the world. 89. Two negatives in English destroy one another. 90. The boy don't know anything about his lesson. 91. Geography is not as hard a study as arithmetic. 92. I can swim further out to sea than him. 93. I don't think any of them can read like me. 94. I am desirous to introduce to you my friend. 95. Wisdom, and not wealth, procure esteem. 96. He was very glad indeed to have met his friends. 97. I expected to have finished my work this morning. 98. I would not have let you gone to such a meeting. 99. That much has been proved. 100. Instruct him to carefully shun the danger. General Exercise. For Analysis and Parsing. 1. "You are a tyrant," he answered with a sigh. 2. "Stop!" said the driver, in a tone of anger. 3. "I do not mean," said the antiquary, "to intrude upon your lordship." 4. "A bird in the hand," says the old proverb, "is worth two in the bush." 5. So great was the demand for paper that the sovereigns of some countries, where the plant out of which it was made flourished, monop olized entirely its culture. 6. "All tickets, please," rang through the car. 7. I live as I did, I think as I did, I love you as I did.—Swift. 8. Deliver us from the nauseous repetition of as and so, which some 80-80 writers, I may call them so, are continually sounding in our ears. ~Felton. 9. Pausing a while, thus to herself she mused.--Milton. 10. Oh that those lips had language !—Cowper. 11. There is no man that sinneth not.-Bible. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. See the blind beggar dance, the cripple sing From liberty each nobler science sprung, A Bacon brightened, and a Spenser sung Savage. The why is plain as way to parish church –Shakespeare A dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old, Of right choice food are his meals, I ween, In his cell so lone and cold. The walls must be crumbled, the stones decayed, To pleasure his dainty whim, And the mouldering dust that years have made Close beside her, faintly moaning, Fair and young a soldier lay, Torn with shot and pierced with lances, Bleeding slow his life away.— Whittier His heart went pit-a-pat, but hers went pity Zekle.--Lowell 17. Down came the tree, nest, eagles, and all.—Fontaine. 18. 19. 20. 21. Laugh those who can, weep those who may.-Scott. Now they wax and now they dwindle, Whirling with the whirling spindle; Twist ye, turn ye! even so Mingle human bliss and woe.-Scott. The piper loud and louder blew, The dancers quick and quicker flew.-Burns. 23. 24. 25. The window jingled in its frame, And through its many gaps of destitution Overhead the dismal hiss Of fiery darts in flaming volleys flew.-Milton. Hands that the rod of empire might have swayed Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honor's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flattery soothe the dull, cold ear of death ?—Gray. 26. Away they went, pell-mell, hurry-skurry, wild buffalo, wild horse, wild huntsman, with clang and clatter, and whoop and halloo, that made the forest ring.-Irving. 27. This is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.-Bible. 28. Whatever is read differs from what is repeated.-Swift. 29. What ho! thou genius of the clime, what ho!—Dryden. 30. Mark what it is his mind aims at in this question, and not what words he expresses.-Locke. 31. In singing, as in piping, you excel.-Dryden. 32. There brighter suns dispense serener light, And milder moons imparadise the night.—Montgomery. 33. The beautiful strikes us as much by its novelty as the deformed itself.-Burkee PUNCTUATION. Punctuation treats of the use of points in dividing written composition. The chief use of punctuation is to divide discourse into sentences, and these again into parts, in such a manner as will best show the relation of the several parts to one another. Punctuation is based almost wholly on grammatical analysis. The same good judgment and accurate discrimination is needed, therefore, in the one as in the other. The chief points used are the following: The following are the most important rules for the use of the period. RULE I.-Complete Sentences.-A period should be placed at the end of every declarative or imperative sentence. Ex. "I am the teacher." "Let me hear you recite." Remark. The members of compound sentences are sometimes separated by periods; as, “The actual amount of money was smaller than we had expected. But we were not disappointed." RULE II.-Abbreviations.-A period should be placed after every abbreviated word. Ex.-Jno., Dr., Sept., LL.D., Rev. Jos. Barnes, A. M., D. D. Note.-I. When an abbreviation becomes a nickname, as Ben, Will, Sue, etc., it is not followed by a period. 2. Ordinal adjectives, as 4th, 7th, 10th, etc., are not abbreviations, but substituted forms for fourth, seventh, tenth, etc. No period, therefore, should be placed after them. 3. When the abbreviation is the last word of a declarative or an imperative sentence, only one period is necessary at the end of the sentence. 4. When the Roman numerals are used, a period is usually placed after each; as, Chap. VI., VII., and VIII. RULE III.-Complete Expressions.-A period should be placed after headings, titles, signatures, imprints, advertisements, etc., when the expression is complete in itself. Ex.-Grammar. Coates's Speaker. William Henry Herbert. Porter & Coates, Philadelphia. Wanted, a good horse. Exercise. Copy and punctuate the following, supplying capitals where necessary : 1. He that wants health wants everything 2. Philadelphia, Pa, Mar 4th, 1880 3. Hon J Ormond Wilsson, Supt Pub Instruction, Washington, DC 4. The Hon Thos Greenbank, D D, LLD, will preside to-night 5. Popular Astronomy by O M Mitchell DD 6. I have examined Chap VI, vol I, very carefully, and I am pleased with the arguments 7. Farm Ballads by Will Carlton 8. Messrs Porter & Coates, No 900 Chest St, Phila 9. Part III Chapter IV Bank Discount 10. Prof Henry L Adams, A M, Ph D |