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"Graded Lessons in English an Elementary English Grammar Consisting of One Hundred Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class-Room"


Build simple sentences in which the following _descriptive_ adjectives
shall be employed as _attribute complements_. Let some of these attributes
be _compound_.
Restless, impulsive, dense, rare, gritty, sluggish, dingy, selfish,
clear, cold, sparkling, slender, graceful, hungry, friendless.
Build simple sentences in which the following _descriptive_ adjectives
shall be employed.
Some of these adjectives have the _form_ of _participles_, and some are
_derived_ from _proper nouns_.
+CAPITAL LETTER--RULE.--An Adjective derived from a proper noun must begin
with a capital letter+.
Shining, moving, swaying, bubbling, American, German, French, Swiss,
Irish, Chinese.


LESSON 74.
CLASSES OF VERBS.
+Hints for Oral Instruction+.--_The man caught_ makes no complete
assertion, and is not a sentence. If I add the object complement _fish_, I
complete the assertion and form a sentence--_The man caught fish_. The
action expressed by _caught_ passes over from the man to the fish.
_Transitive_ means _passing over_, and so all those verbs that express an
action that passes over from a doer to something which receives, are called
+Transitive verbs+.


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