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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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GENERAL REVIEW.

What is an object complement? What is an attribute complement? How does a
participle differ from a predicate verb? Illustrate. What offices does an
infinitive phrase perform? Illustrate. How are sentences classified with
respect to form? Give an example of each class. What is a simple sentence?
What is a clause? What is a dependent clause? What is an independent
clause? What is a complex sentence? What is a compound sentence? How are
sentences classified with respect to meaning? Give an example of each
class. What is a declarative sentence? What is an interrogative sentence?
What is an imperative sentence? What is an exclamatory sentence? What
different offices may a noun perform? Ans.--_A noun may be used as a
subject, as an object complement, as an attribute complement, as a
possessive modifier, as an explanatory modifier, as the principal word in a
prepositional phrase, and it may be used independently_. Illustrate each
use. What are sometimes substituted for nouns? _Ans.--Pronouns, phrases,
and clauses_. Illustrate. What is the principal office of a verb? What
offices may be performed by a phrase? What, by a clause? What, different
offices may an adjective perform? What parts of speech may connect clauses?
_Ans.--Conjunctions, adverbs, and pronouns_. (See Lessons 62, 59, and 57.)
Give rules for the use of the comma (Lessons 37, 54, 57). Give and
illustrate the directions for using adjectives and adverbs, for placing
phrases, for using prepositions, and for using negatives (Lessons 40, 41).

+To the Teacher+.--For additional review, see "Scheme," p. 185.

If the early presentation of an outline of technical grammar is not
compelled by a prescribed course of study, we should here introduce a
series of lessons in the construction of sentences, paragraphs, letters,
and general compositions. The pages following Lesson 100 will furnish
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