Lessons in the Speaking and Writing of English Volume 2 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ...What is the difference between the sentences below? A basket of corn was in the sand. There was a basket of corn in the sand. What is the subject of each sentence? How is the word there used? Why could not there be the subject? Change the sentences below so that each shall begin with there: By the wood was a river. Canoes were on the shore. No Indians were in sight. That night was a great rain. Wild geese and ducks were in the sky. Write these sentences with there in its proper place in each. Are the sentences complete and clear when there is not used? Who can tell now how there is used? When you added there, what did you write next? In which sentences did you place there was or there were before the subject? In which sentences did you find the subject already at the end of the sentence? 2. Written Practice in Subject and Predicate Copy the following sentences, and draw a single line under all the words that belong to each subject and two lines under all the words in each predicate: On another trip the Pilgrims found a deserted Indian village. The houses were made of young saplings bent into arches, with both ends sticking in the ground. They looked like arbors covered with mats. For chimney there was only a hole in the roof. In the center of the house was the fireplace. There were four posts with small sticks laid across them. From these sticks pots and kettles were hung for cooking. Round about the fire there were woven mats. These were used as beds. In the house wooden bowls, trays, dishes, earthen pots, and baskets of shells, rushes, bark, and grasses were found by the Pilgrims. There were also deer's heads and horns, and eagles' claws. There were also baskets full of parched acorns, dried fish, and different kinds of seeds. In a...