Good English, Oral and Written Volume 3 (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. 1918 Excerpt: ...a word that shows the relation between a Speech noun or a pronoun and some other word in the sentence (p. 85) Conjunction--a word (not a preposition) used to connect words or groups of words of the same class (p. 94) Interjection--a word used to express sudden or strong feeling (p. 101) Classify the words in the sentences given on the preceding page and tell how each is used. Lesson 7--The Substantive 1. Development. A noun, pronoun, or any word or group of words that is used as a noun or pronoun, is called a substantive. (a) An adjective may be used as a noun or a pronoun and therefore may be a substantive. Example: The tallest are not always the strongest. Tallest is an adjective used as the subject of the sentence; strongest is an adjective used as a predicate noun; both are, therefore, substantives. Select from the following sentences the adjectives that are used substantively. Tell how each substantive is used in the sentence in which it occurs. 1. The bravest are the tenderest. 2. The race is not always to the swift. 3. The best will be taken. 4. "The oldest and youngest Are at work with the strongest." 5. The biggest are usually the best. (b) A phrase may be used substantively. Examples: (l) Over the fence is out. (2) He came from over the river. Over the fence is a phrase used as the subject of the sentence; it is therefore a substantive. Over the river is a phrase used with the preposition from; it is therefore a substantive. (c) A clause, also, may be used as a substantive. Examples: 1. That water should come down in a slide amazed John. 2. His thought was thai he must not be a coward. 3. He knew that his mother liked loaches. In sentence 1 what is the subject? How are the clauses used in sentences 2 and 3? Select the substantive clauses...