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English grammar

Chapter 67: LXIV. REVIEW OF VERBS: PARSING
By Lillian Kimball Stewart
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A practical, classroom-oriented guide that presents the principles of modern English usage through clear definitions, progressive lessons, and abundant exercises. It begins with sentences, subjects, and predicates, then treats parts of speech — nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections — followed by phrases, clauses, sentence analysis, verb tense, mode and voice, agreement, and punctuation. Each topic is arranged pedagogically to build from simple to complex constructions, with drills and illustrative sentences to promote correct spoken and written habits and to develop students' ability to analyze and apply grammatical forms.

LXIV. REVIEW OF VERBS: PARSING

266. Study again Lessons XXIII-XXVII, XLIX-LXIII. Make an outline of verbs, having the following main topics:—

(1) Classification.

(2) Properties.

(3) Conjugation.

(4) Principal Parts.

(5) Auxiliaries.

(6) Agreement.

Fill in the subtopics and recite in detail from your outline with illustrations of every point.

Exercise.—Parse the verbs in the following sentences according to the outline on p. 150:—

1. If you have a Halloween party, shall you invite the Cromers?

2. At first the chemist said he couldn’t do anything about it; but when Agamemnon said they would pay in gold if he would only go, he packed up his bottles in a leather case, and went back with the Peterkins.

3.

Faith’s journeys end is welcome to the weary,
And heaven, the heart’s true home, will come at last.

4. We are going to have a tile well, and Mr. Jones is going to oversee the men who dig it.

5. This woodchuck was neither handsome nor interesting, but he knew how to take care of himself.

6. Sheep are usually kept in flocks of from one thousand to three thousand under one or more shepherds.

7. Rabbits telegraph each other by thumping on the ground with their hind feet.

8. Lady Moon, Lady Moon, where are you roving?

9.

Breast the wave, Christian, when it is strongest.
Watch for day, Christian, when the night’s longest.

10. Even so did men talk round the king’s cages at Oodeypore.

11. Your Uncle Nathan and I used to be called the bothering Bodleys, because we were always teasing to find out something.

12. The Peterkins had been so busy inside the house that they had not noticed the ceasing of the storm outside.

13. For thou, Lord, wilt give thy blessing unto the righteous, and with thy favorable kindness wilt thou defend him as with a shield.

14. My father’s, like every other young ladies’ school near a village, was very much disturbed by the attentions of the village young men.

15. If any man have a hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine and go into the mountains and seek that which goeth astray?

16. They were sitting round the breakfast table and wondering what they should do because the lady from Philadelphia had gone away.