A. Douai's Series of Rational Readers (Volume 3); Combining the Principles of Pestalozzi's and Froebel's Systems of Education. with a Systematic Classification of English Words, by Which Their Pronunciation, Orthography and Etymology May Be Taught Readily (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874. Excerpt: ... PART II. Beading and Grammatical Exercises. LESSON I. Grammar. 1. To speak means to give audible expression to thought. Every thought of ours, that is uttered, forms a Sentence. 2. Our thoughts may be either simple, or compound. Therefore our sentences are also cither simple or compound. 3. The following are simple sentences: The bird sings.--A fish can swim.--All men must die.--Whales arc mammals. 4. The following are compound sentences: Some birds swim, and some fishes fly.--She must be sick, or she must be absent.--While the sun shines, it is day.--You will remain happy, if you be virtuous. 5. Grammar teaches us, how to think, speak and write correctly. It tells us, how to form sentences which can be understood, and how to connect them properly. 6. In each sentence, even in the simplest, we speak of something. Find in the above sentences the thing of which something is spoken, and what is said of it. 7. The thing of which something is spoken is called, in Grammar, the Subject; that which is said of it is called the Predicate. 8. Find in the following simple sentences the Subject and the Predicate: Children are sometimes unruly.--She would not believe it.--At night all cows look black.--There are no dragons.--This mill is driven by water. 9. Try now to invent for yourselves some sentences, and state which ia the Subject, and which the Predicate in each Note. Beginners are likely to mistake the first word or words of a sentence for the Subject, the last word or words for the Predicate. In the sentence: at night all cows look black--they will mistake 'night' for the Subject In the sentence: there are no dragons--they will state that 'there' is the Subject Question those that do so somewhat as follows: what look black at night?--what are there not?--And w...