Poor, how, with, through, or, and.

+Direction+.--Expand these sentences by supplying subjects:--

1. Give us this day our daily bread.

2. Why dost stare so?

3. Thank you, sir.

4. Hear me for my cause.

5. Where hast been these six months?

6. Bless me!

7. Save us.

+Direction+.--_Expand these by supplying the verb or some part of it_:--

1. n.o.body there.

2. Death to the tyrant.

3. All aboard!

4. All hands to the pumps!

5. What to me fame?

6. Short, indeed, his career.

7. When Adam thus to Eve.

8. I must after him.

9. Thou shalt back to France.

10. Whose footsteps these?

+Direction+.--_Expand these by supplying both subject and verb, and note the loss in vivacity_:--

1. Upon them with the lance.

2. At your service, sir.

3. Why so unkind?

4. Forward, the light brigade!

5. Half-past nine.

6. Off with you.

7. My kingdom for a horse!

8. Hence, you idle creatures!

9. Coffee for two.

10. Shine, sir?

11. Back to thy punishment, false fugitive.

12. On with the dance.

13. Strange, strange!

14. Once more unto the breach.

15. Away, away!

16. Impossible!

+Direction+.--_Contract these by omitting the subject or the verb_:--

1. Art thou gone?

2. Will you take your chance?

3. His career was ably run.

4. Are you a captain?

5. May long life be to the republic.

6. How great is the mystery!

7. Canst thou wonder?

8. May a prosperous voyage be to you.

9. Are you here?

+Direction+.--_Contract these by omitting both subject and verb, and note the gain in force and animation_:--

1. I offer a world for sale.

2. Now, then, go you to breakfast.

3. Sit you down, soothless insulter.

4. I want a word with you, wife.

5. Those are my sentiments, madam.

6. Bring ye lights there.

7. It is true, sir.

8. We will drink a health to Preciosa.

9. I offer a penny for your thoughts.

10. Whither are you going so early?

+Direction+.--_Construct ten full sentences, using in each, one of these adverbs or phrases or nouns, and then contract the sentences by omitting both subject and verb_:--

Why, hence, to arms, silence, out, to your tents, peaches, room, for the guns, water.

LESSON 58.

REVIEW.

TO THE TEACHER.--See suggestions, Lesson 16.

+Direction+.--_Review from Lesson_ 51 _to Lesson_ 57, _inclusive_.

Ill.u.s.trate the different positions--Usual and Transposed--that the words and phrases of a declarative sentence may take; ill.u.s.trate the different positions of the parts of an interrogative, of an imperative, and of an exclamatory sentence; ill.u.s.trate the different ways of contracting sentences.

Exercises on the Composition of the Sentence and the Paragraph.

(SEE PAGES 162-165.)

TO THE TEACHER.--See notes to the teacher, pages 30, 150.

LESSON 59.

COMPLEX SENTENCE--ADJECTIVE CLAUSE.

+Introductory Hints+.--The sentences given for a.n.a.lysis in the preceding Lessons contain each but one subject and one predicate. They are called +Simple Sentences+.