Write sentences to form three paragraphs about winds; one sentence for the first paragraph to tell what winds are, several sentences for the second paragraph to tell the good effects of winds, and several sentences for the third paragraph to tell their bad effects. Write other sentences about winds to form a fourth paragraph.

In this way you can form a composition about winds. Composition means a putting together. We group related words to form a sentence, related sentences to form a paragraph, and related paragraphs to form a theme or composition.

Write a composition about a snow storm and use the following outline. Form paragraphs by placing in groups sentences that refer to the same thing and that are closely related in thought:

Appearance of the sky and other objects before the

storm.

Clouds, wind, snowflakes. How the house, fences, fields, and other objects look after the storm.

Children with sleds on the hillside. Party of boys and girls. Bells jingling. Horses dashing along. Children shout. Horses frightened run away. Sleigh tips over. one hurt. All walk home.

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EXERCISE

Study the following selection:

TRAVELS BY THE FIRESIDE.

The ceaseless rain is falling fast;
And yonder gilded vane,
Immovable for three days past,
Points to the misty main.

It drives me in upon myself,
And to the fireside gleams,

To pleasant books that crowd my shelf,
And still more pleasant dreams.

I read whatever bards have sung
Of lands beyond the sea;

And the bright days when I was young
Come thronging back to me.

In fancy I can hear again

The Alpine torrents roar,

The mule bells on the hills of Spain,
The sea at Elsinore.

I see the convent's gleaming wall
Rise from its groves of pine,
And towers of old cathedrals tall,
And castles by the Rhine.

I journey on by park and spire,
Beneath centennial trees,

Through fields with poppies all on fire,
And gleams of distant seas.

I fear no more the dust and heat,
No more I feel fatigue,

While journeying with another's feet
O'er many a lengthening league.
Let others traverse sea and land,
And toil through various climes;
I turn the world round with my hand,
Reading these poets' rhymes.
From them I learn whatever lies
Beneath each changing zone;

And see, when looking with their eyes,
Better than with mine own.

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

A simple sentence may have two or more subjects, predicates, or objects in which the action or actions terminate. Such sentences are referred to as simple sentences with compound subjects, predicates, or objects as the case may be.

In the above poem point out all simple sentences, and in each sentence point out the subject and the predicate. Copy all complex sentences, and point out in each clause the subject and the predicate.

Find all the compound sentences, and in each clause the subject and the predicate.

Point out all nouns and all pronouns.

and pronouns are subjects?

Which nouns

Point out all adjectives, verbs, adverbs, prepositions, and conjunctions. How many parts of speech are there?

Write a biographical sketch of the poet Longfellow.

Place and date of birth.
Where he was educated.
His career as a college
professor.

His principal poems.
His dramas.

His character as a man.
Place and date of death.

MODIFICATIONS NUMBER

There are many modifications in the meaning and in the use of words. We will now consider one of these.

Examine the following sentences:—

The good ship flies to milder skies.

The golden moments fly.

The rosebush reddens with the blush of June.

The maples redden in the sun.

He is a man of mirthful speech.

They are slaves who dare to be
In the right with two or three.

Point out each noun used to denote a single object. Point out each noun used to denote more than one object. Which of these nouns are used as subjects of verbs?

Point out each pronoun used to denote a single object. Point out each pronoun used to denote more than one object.

A noun or a pronoun that denotes a single object is in the singular number.

A noun or pronoun that denotes more than one object is in the plural number.

How do the verbs in the first and second sentences differ in form? the verbs in the third and fourth sentences?

Point out the verb in the fifth sentence, and in the principal clause of the last sentence. Do both of these verb forms belong to the same verb?

A verb is in the same number as its subject.