followed by an interrogation point+. [Footnote: To The Teacher.--See Notes,
pp. 178, 179.]


SENTENCE-BUILDING.

Change each of the following declarative sentences into three interrogative
sentences, and tell how the change was made.

+Model+.--_Girls can skate. Can girls skate? How can girls skate? What
girls can skate?_ You are happy. Parrots can talk. Low houses were built.

Change each of the following into an imperative sentence. Notice that
independent words are set off by the comma.

+Model+.--_Carlo eats his dinner. Eat your dinner, Carlo_. George plays the
flute. Birdie stands on one leg.

Change each of the following into exclamatory sentences.

+Model+.--_You are happy. How happy you are! What a happy child you are!
You are so happy!_

Time flies swiftly. I am glad to see you. A refreshing shower fell. Lapland
is a cold country. It is hot between the tropics.

Write a declarative, an interrogative, an imperative, and an exclamatory
sentence on each of the following topics.

Weather, lightning, a stage coach.