Sweep

swept

Swell

swelled

Swim

sweeping swept

swelling swelled, swollen (a)

swam, swum swimming swum

SYNTAX:

OR,

THE MAKING OF SENTENCES

AND

EXPRESSING THESE GRAMMATICALLY.

Orthography taught how to spell,

Then etymology could tell

To

parse each word with ease;

Now that you've got nine parts of speech,
And know the uses too of each-

Take this part, if you please.

While others many blunders make,
Because they will not trouble take
To understand these rules.

I'm sure you would have no objections
If I should sometimes make corrections,
To sharpen up the tools?

RULE FIRST.

The verb with subject must agree
In person, number-this you'll see
While I explain to-day.

When subject is a pronoun, give
Each verb a personal nominative—
I, thou, he, we, you, they.

EXERCISE.

Correct the following errors.

Me walk to Ardrossan. Them sit too long. Him does not understand me. Them are not hard at all.

Us learn our lessons well. Me love my grandmamma. Them will not allow me to leave town Him pro

mised to send me his likeness; but him broke it. Thee art a little Quakeress. I know me am.

In GENDER too, avoid mistake,

O what a blunder you would make

If

you used she for he!

When subject's neither one nor other,
Then you require to use the neuter,
And say, it falls (that tree).

EXERCISE.

Correct the following errors.

Grandmamma told me her age; he was sixty. The tree was uprooted with the storm, and there she lies.