part of which something is said or asserted, and the part that makes this assertion.

The part of which something is asserted is called the Subject.

The part which makes the assertion is called the Predicate.

Write the subjects and the predicates of the following sentences separating them thus:

SUBJECT

The apples

Pineapples grow in Florida.

PREDICATE

are sweet

Great quantities of sugar and molasses are shipped from New Orleans.

Iron and copper are found along the shores of Lake Superior.

The Erie Canal connects Buffalo with Albany.
Trees of enormous size grow in California.

Valuable minerals are found in the Rocky Mountains. The central part of the United States is drained by the Mississippi River.

The Mammoth Cave in Kentucky is visited by many tourists every year.

Make sentences using each of the following groups of words as a subject:

The city of Chicago

Large forests

The tops of high mountains

SENTENCES-SUBJECT AND PREDICATE

The American Indians

Many boat-loads of lumber

The Great Lakes

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Make sentences using each of the following groups of words as a predicate:

flows into the Atlantic Ocean.

fill the air with fragrance.

contains gold and silver mines.
grow in California.

are shipped to Europe.

presented a beautiful sight.

In the examples given and in each of the sentences you have made, the subject is placed before the predicate. This arrangement of the parts of a sentence is called the

natural order.

The natural order is not always followed, often a part or all of the predicate is placed before the subject. This is called the inverted order.

Rearrange the following sentences so that they will have the natural order, and give the subject and predicate of each:

Soon after the sun had set the moon appeared.

By the roadside bloomed many wild flowers.

In the spring the birds will come back to the trees.
How rapidly the river flows!

Pouring forth his rapturous song, the lark soared high into the air.

"Unto the pure all things are pure."

Across the river came the sound of the village bell.

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Slowly and sadly we laid him down."

With soft and noiseless tread the Frost King approaches.

LESSON XV

COMPARISON

The wild rose is a much larger flower than either the apple or the pear blossom. Its petals are a deeper pink. There are five petals, just as there are in the apple and the pear blossoms, and there are as many stamens and pistils. So, though different in some ways, the flowers of the rose are very much like those of the apple and the pear.

The writer of this saw that the rose, the apple, and the pear blossom were alike in some respects and different in others. She made use of language to express these resemblances and differences. That is what you are to do in this lesson, with the objects named.

Observe that the sentences stating the ways in which the wild rose resembles the apple and the pear blossoms are put into one paragraph. In your own In your own writing be careful to put the sentences that state the resemblance of one thing to another into one paragraph and those stating the differences between them into another.

Write sentences, stating the ways in which goldenrod resembles each of the following:

the aster

the thistle

the sunflower

Write sentences telling how it differs from each.

STUDY OF A POEM

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In a similar manner, write sentences stating the ways in which the maple leaf resembles and differs from each of the following:

pine needles

an ivy leaf

an oak leaf

Write sentences stating the ways in which corn resembles and differs from each of the following:

Select other leaves, flowers, and fruits, and state their resemblances and differences.

LESSON XVI

STUDY OF A POEM1

AUTUMN WOODS

Ere, in the northern gale,

The summer tresses of the trees are gone,

The woods of autumn, all around our vale,
Have put their glory on.

The mountains that infold,

In their wide sweep, the colored landscape round,
Seem groups of giant kings, in purple and gold,

That guard the enchanted ground.

1 A conversation about the appearance of the trees in autumn will prepare for the study of this poem.

I roam the woods that crown

The upland, where the mingled splendors glow,
Where the gay company of trees look down
On the green fields below.

My steps are not alone

In these bright walks; the sweet southwest, at play,
Flies, rustling, where the painted leaves are strown
Along the winding way.

And far in heaven, the while,

The sun, that sends the gale to wander here,

Pours out on the fair earth his quiet smile,

The sweetest of the year.

Let in through all the trees

Come the strange rays; the forest depths are bright;
Their sunny-colored foliage, in the breeze,

Twinkles, like beams of light.

The rivulet, late unseen,

Where bickering through the shrubs its waters run,
Shines with the image of its golden screen,

And glimmerings of the sun.

Oh, Autumn! why so soon

Depart the hues that make thy forest glad,

Thy gentle wind and thy fair, sunny noon,

And leave thee wild and sad!- WILLIAM CULLEN Bryant.

Hints for the study of the poem, "Autumn Woods":Read the first stanza, and explain its meaning. Describe the picture which the second stanza presents. Why are the mountains compared to giant kings? By what is the poet accompanied in his walk?