Harvey's Elementary Grammar and Composition · Lesson 123 · Part 2: Part II: The parts of speech in full
90. Miscellaneous exercises
Goal: Your child applies everything in Parts I and II to new sentences and verse.
You'll need
- The book, open to this lesson
- Paper and a pencil (or a slate)
What's in the book
Pages 145 to 147 are numbered sentences and short verse passages by many authors, for practice in analysis and parsing.
The lesson, step by step
Review
Ask: What are the parts of a letter?
What these pages are
These are practice sentences and verses. The scan doesn't show a separate instruction clearly, so use them as earlier lessons did: analyze each sentence and parse chosen words.
Start simple
Analyze a few short ones:
She saw a glory in each cloud.
Still waters are commonly deepest.
To-morrow may be brighter than to-day.
Parse a few words
Parse one noun, one verb and one adjective from:
Few days pass without some clouds.
Try a longer one
Analyze:
Few are qualified to shine in company; but it is in most men's power to be agreeable.
Name the kind of sentence, its members, and the infinitives.
Read the verses
Read one of the verse passages aloud together for pleasure, then find its subject and predicate.
Use it today
Choose a favorite sentence from your own reading and analyze it.
Afterwards
Use these pages for review a few sentences at a time over several days.
Answers to the book's problems
Examples: She saw a glory in each cloud: simple, declarative; subject She, predicate saw, object glory, modified by a and the phrase in each cloud. Still waters are commonly deepest: subject waters (modified by Still), copula are, predicate deepest (modified by commonly). Few are qualified...: compound sentence of two members joined by but; to shine and to be are infinitives.
Worked out for this site from the scan. If a number in your copy differs, trust the book.