Harvey's Elementary Grammar and Composition · Lesson 16 · Part 1: Part I: The elementary course
15. Analyzing sentences with objects
Goal: Your child analyzes sentences that have an object, and says why each verb is transitive, intransitive or copulative.
You'll need
- The book, open to this lesson
- Paper and a pencil (or a slate)
What's in the book
Page 26 finishes Lesson 16 with nouns to use as objects and a model analysis of "Scholars learn lessons" with ten sentences to analyze. Page 27 gives models for pointing out verbs, with ten sentences.
The lesson, step by step
Review
Ask: What is a transitive verb? Intransitive? Copulative? Give an example of each.
Nouns as objects
Use some of the book's nouns as objects in sentences, aloud: cars, grass, books, laws, wheat, letters. For example: "Cows eat grass."
Learn the analysis model
Read the book's model analysis of
Scholars learn lessons.
It names the kind of sentence, the subject, the predicate and the object, and asks "why?" for each. Your child says it after you.
Analyze
Analyze some of the book's sentences aloud with the model:
Dogs hunt rabbits.
Jane studies botany.
Haste makes waste.
Point out the verbs
Page 27 gives models like "Grows is a verb; (why?): intransitive..." Use them on these:
Viola blushed.
Stephen was a martyr.
Henry struck William.
Your child names each verb and its class and says why.
Check together
Check with the answers below.
Use it today
Find a sentence with an object in today's reading and analyze it aloud.
Answers to the book's problems
Analysis (subject / verb / object): Dogs / hunt / rabbits; Jane / studies / botany; Eli / drives / horses; Horses / draw / wagons; Men / build / houses; Farmers / sow / grain; Merchants / sell / goods; Haste / makes / waste; Soldiers / fight / battles; Cats / catch / mice. Verbs on page 27: blushed, intransitive; was, copulative; may be, copulative; sell, transitive; build, transitive; swim, intransitive; is, copulative; should be, copulative; kill, transitive; struck, transitive.
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