Essentials of English; Higher Grades (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: You will see that each sentence begins with a capital letter. A sentence is a group of words that expresses a complete thought. Every sentence should begin with a capital letter. Oral Exercise Which of the following groups of words express a complete thought? Make a sentence of each incomplete group. 1. The storm was furious. 2. The lightning flashed. 3. The threatening clouds overhead. 4. The captain who anxiously paced the deck. 5. The captain anxiously paced the deck. 6. In one of the pauses of the storm. 7. The whistling of the wind through the rigging. 8. As the ship rolled and tossed from side to side. 9. I tried to walk the deck. 10. The thundering heavens and the mountainous waves. 11. The night was black. 12. The blackness of the night and the fury of the storm. Oral And Written Exercises I. In the following selections the various thoughts are not separated by periods as they should be, nor are capitals used in all cases where they belong. Read the selections, making up your mind where capital letters and periods should be placed and where and's should be omitted. Let different pupils write the different paragraphs on the board as they think they should be written and let the rest of the class criticize the work. If there are mistakes, ask questions of the writer that will show him wherein he is wrong. 1. Cinderella reached home tired and cold and her sisters came and talked about the wonderful princess and she listened but said not a word. 2. The passengers were saved they could hardly express their joy and gratitude they threw their arms about the necks of the noble horses whose speed had carried them beyond the range of the highwaymen's rifles. 3. The Japanese houses are beautifully made the floors are so p...