LESSON 3

Let the pupils be required to tell what they learned in the previous
lessons.

+Teacher+.--When I pronounce the two words _star_ and _bud_ thus: _star
bud_, how many ideas, or mental pictures, do I call up to you?

+Pupil+.--Two.

+T+.--Do you see any connection between these ideas?

+P+.--No.

+T+.--When I utter the two words _bud_ and _swelling_, thus: _bud
swelling_, do you see any connection in the ideas they stand for?

+P+.--Yes, I imagine that I see a bud expanding, or growing larger.

+T+.--I will connect two words more closely, so as to express a thought:
_Buds swell_. A thought has been formed in my mind when I say, _Buds
swell_; and these two words, in which something is said of something else,
express that thought, and make what we call a _sentence_. In the former
expression, _bud swelling_ it is assumed, or taken for granted, that buds
perform the act; in the latter, the swelling is asserted as a fact.

_Leaves falling_. Do these two words express two ideas merely associated,