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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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6. Vulcan was a blacksmith.
7. The summer has been very rainy.
8. Columbus made four voyages to the New World.
9. The moon reflects the light of the sun.
10. The first vice-president of the United States was John Adams.
11. Roger Williams was the founder of Rhode Island.
12. Harvey discovered the circulation of blood.
13. Diamonds are combustible.
14. Napoleon died a prisoner, at St.. Helena.
15. In 1619 the first ship-load of slaves was landed at Jamestown.

The pupil will notice that _animal_, in sentence No. 2, is an _attribute
complement_, though it is not an adjective expressing a quality belonging
to man, but a noun denoting his class. +_Nouns_+ then may be +_attribute
compliments_+.

The pupil will notice also that some of the _object_ and _attribute
complements_ above have phrase modifiers.




LESSON 43.

SENTENCE-BUILDING.

Using the following predicates, build sentences having subjects,
predicates, and object complements with or without modifiers.

---- climb ----; ---- hunt ----; ---- command ----; ---- attacked
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