Harvey's Elementary Grammar and Composition · Lesson 97–98 · Part 2: Part II: The parts of speech in full
73. Parsing verbs
Goal: Your child parses a verb in the book's eight steps.
You'll need
- The book, open to this lesson
- Paper and a pencil (or a slate)
What's in the book
Lesson 97 gives the order of parsing a verb and Lesson 98 has models for "Liberty is sweet," "I shall go, if you remain," "The boy caught the horse" and more, with the rules for verbs, participles and infinitives.
The lesson, step by step
Review
Ask for the principal parts of go, see, write and bring.
The eight steps
The book's order: 1. A verb, and why? 2. Regular or irregular? 3. Principal parts. 4. Copulative, transitive or intransitive? 5. Voice. 6. Mode. 7. Tense. 8. Person and number. Then the rule:
A verb must agree with its subject in person and number.
Follow the models
Read the book's models aloud:
Liberty is sweet.
The boy caught the horse.
Your child repeats the parsing of "caught."
Participles and infinitives
The models also cover:
We heard the owl hooting.
I study to improve.
Read the rule:
An infinitive not used as a noun, depends upon the word it limits.
Parse
Parse three verbs from today's reading using the eight steps. Write one out in full.
Use it today
Make up a sentence and challenge your child to parse its verb.
Answers to the book's problems
caught: a verb; irregular; catch, caught, caught; transitive; active voice; indicative mode; past tense; third person, singular, to agree with its subject boy.
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