Harvey's Elementary Grammar and Composition · Lesson 109–111 · Part 2: Part II: The parts of speech in full
80. Conjunctions in full
Goal: Your child sorts conjunctions into coordinate, subordinate and correlative, and parses them.
You'll need
- The book, open to this lesson
- Paper and a pencil (or a slate)
What's in the book
Lesson 109 defines the classes of conjunctions, Lesson 110 gives the order of parsing, and Lesson 111 gives models and six sentences.
The lesson, step by step
Review
Ask: What does a conjunction do?
The classes
Read:
Conjunctions are divided into two general classes: Coordinate and Subordinate.
Coordinate Conjunctions are those which join elements of the same rank or name.
Subordinate Conjunctions are those which join elements of different rank or name.
Pairs
Read:
Correlative Conjunctions are coordinates or subordinates used in pairs, one referring or answering to the other.
Practice the pairs aloud: both, and; either, or; neither, nor; not only, but also.
Parse
The order: A conjunction, and why? Coordinate or subordinate, and why? What does it connect? Then the rule:
Conjunctions connect words, phrases, and sentences.
Parse:
Cold and hunger awake not her care.
We can not thrive unless we are industrious.
He was not only proud, but vain also.
Check together
Check with the answers.
Use it today
The book says to parse all the conjunctions in three sentences of your reading lesson.
Answers to the book's problems
1 and: coordinate, joins cold and hunger. 2 and: coordinate, joins came and went. 3 therefore: coordinate, joins the two members. 4 unless: subordinate, joins the clause we are industrious to can not thrive. 5 Though, yet: correlative. 6 not only, but (also): correlative.
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