35. The Use of Capitals. Tell how capit get the meanings more easily in the following A wide-spreading Apple-tree stood in full bl it a straight Fir raised its dark and tapering the thousands of gay blossoms which cover said the Apple-tree. "What have you to show Dark green needles!" The Fir replied, "Th when winter comes, you will be bared of yo I shall be as I am now." When something without life is regarded as speaking) it is spoken of as personified. A p is written with a capital. Observe how qu set off the actual speeches. A Critical Exercise. Study the rules in the 37 and correct the following, giving the rule f Copy by dictation. SOME BIG TREES 1 some of the trees in california are four tho 2 they were growing before our revolutionary middle ages, and even before the catholic 3 one can imagine such a mighty tree saying, people, for i am older than the romans. socrates or abraham. 5 god alone has watched 4 i 6 we have some famous historic trees in amer in the east. 7 long before the declaration of in signed william penn smoked the pipe of peace under penn's treaty tree. 8 long before the democratic parties came into existence, befor the fourth of july, a majestic elm in cambr famous by washington. do you wonder that th 9 10 woodman, spare that tree! touch not a single bough! hind kat cre," son? But Then = (or vord Larks page ange. s old. re the egan. me, o than ularly ce was dians and Srated made rote: Begin with a capital(or capitals): 3. A quotation. (See the fable, page 36) 7. Names of persons and places. (John, Troy) 8. Names of the days, the months, and holidays. (Tu March, Easter) 9. Proper adjectives. (American) 10. Names for the Deity. (God) II. Names of epochs, or periods of time. (Dark Age 14. Names of political parties, religious denomin and other organizations. (Democrats, Ba Y. M. C. A.) 15. Names North, South, East, and West as sections country. (Trouble began in the West.) 16. A personified word. (Hear, O Tortoise.). 36. How the Verb Asserts. Some verbs make sense with the subject alone ("Birds fly "), but mo need some other word to complete their meaning. In the second and third sentences near the the verb links to the subject a substantive me as the subject; and in the fourth sentence th the subject an adjective describing it. Such linking verbs. Learn نن Pronouns following linking verbs are always tive case; as, "It is I." "It was we." beaus verb 1. Completed by noun or pronoun (accusative case) Subject verb 2. Completed by noun or pronoun tense subject (nominative case) 3. Completed by adjective describin cate adjective) The most common linking verbs are the form ture am was shall be had been is were have been should be Remember: After a linking verb (am, is, nominative case of the pronoun is used. Sentence Building. Write the following sent the blanks with the different words in parenthe used as direct objects are in the accusative case, meaning the same as the subject are in the nomi 1. The people saw 3. It was 4. The flower is 5. 6. (a (me, her, him, us, them (a maple, an oak, a chestn forester, I, Mary, she) (pink, fresh, pretty, fade see the rainbow. (I, We, They, You, T sees the tree. (He, She, It, The man) Recognizing Parts of Sentences. In the sent 39 find: (1) direct objects; (2) objects of completing predicates and referring to the subjects. 1. The early settlers were our first lumbermen. 2. Some trees have diseases. 3. Forests were valuable in building railroads. 4. Squirrels and chipmunks eat the nuts of trees. a 5. Caterpillars of butterflies and moths eat the leaves of 8. Furniture is made from the wood of the tree. 10. The first settlers got shelter and warmth from the fore 12. Men trapped the fur-bearing animals of the forests for the 16. 15. Forest fires kill thousands of trees in this country. 17. 18. Many forests are wasted by indiscriminate cutting of t 19. The first white settlers in America found forests every 20. The large trees protect the small trees. 21. Wind and snow may hurt the trees. 22. Lumbering, paper-making, tanning, and other indust pend upon the forest. 23. A seedling is a tree not yet three feet tall. 24. They marked the trail by chopping pieces of bark from t 25. The chestnut blight kills many chestnut trees. 26. Some trees in the forest have been growing for a long 27. The forest has many foes. 28. Products of the forests are worth millions of dollars 29. A sapling is a young tree. 30. Small settlements sprang up around the trading posts. 1 37. Unity or Sticking to the Subject. selection each sentence contributes some thoug as outlined on the right. Observe how each ser When all the sentences stick to the topic we sa DESCRIPTION OF A TREE 1 The white pine is one of the most valuable trees in the forests of America. 2 It is a giant of a tree, often a hundred and fifty feet high. 3 The trunk is large and very straight, and the lowest branches are far above the ground. 5 4 The white pine's leaves or needles grow in clusters of five. They are of a blue-green color, straight and slender. 6 Each needle is three-sided, with a small, blunt point at the end, and may be from a single inch to more than a foot long. 7 The tree's fruit is a cone, which ripens in the summer of the second season, and falls from the tree during the winter or spring. It is green, from four to eight inches long, and covered with loose scales. 9 The pine has very small winged seeds, which the winds carry far from the mother tree when the cone finally opens to let them out. 10 On the young trees the bark is smooth and green, turning to a dark gray as the tree grows older. 11 The bark on the trunks of large trees is broken up by long, deep furrows. 13 Much 12 The pine's wood is light and soft. even used for the frame of airships. 14 It is DORRANCE: The Story of the Forest |