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Graded Lessons in English an Elementary English Grammar Consisting of One Hundred Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class-Room by Alonzo Reed;Brainerd Kellogg
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1. Morning dawns, and the clouds disperse.
2. Prayer leads the heart to God, and he always listens.
3. A soft answer turneth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger.
4. Power works easily, but fretting is a perpetual confession of weakness.
5. Many meet the gods, but few salute them.
6. We eat to live, but we do not live to eat.
7. The satellites revolve in orbits around the planets, and the planets
move in orbits around the sun.
8. A wise son maketh a glad father, but a foolish son is the heaviness of
his mother.
9. Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old.
10. [Footnote: A verb is to be supplied in each of the last three
sentences.] Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before
a fall.
11. Towers are measured by their shadows, and great men, by their
calumniators.
12. Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow.




LESSON 63.

SENTENCES CLASSIFIED WITH RESPECT TO THEIR MEANING.

+Hints for Oral Instruction+.--You have already become acquainted with
three kinds of sentences. Can you name them?

+P+.--The Simple sentence, the Complex, and the Compound.
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