Practical Lessons in ... EnglishD.C. Heath & Company, 1887 |
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... apostrophe . From what two words is don't made ? Why is the apostrophe used ? Words , like I've and don't , made from two words by omitting a letter or letters , are called contractions . An apostrophe should be used in a contraction ...
... apostrophe . From what two words is don't made ? Why is the apostrophe used ? Words , like I've and don't , made from two words by omitting a letter or letters , are called contractions . An apostrophe should be used in a contraction ...
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... ? Whose horse ran away ? To what did the / web belong ? What has been added to each of the words boy , doctor , and spider , to show that they denote possession ? Add the apostrophe ( ' ) and s to a Words that Denote Possession.
... ? Whose horse ran away ? To what did the / web belong ? What has been added to each of the words boy , doctor , and spider , to show that they denote possession ? Add the apostrophe ( ' ) and s to a Words that Denote Possession.
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M. F. Hyde. Add the apostrophe ( ' ) and s to a singular noun , to form the possessive . WRITTEN EXERCISE . I. Write sentences containing the following : - Helen's letter , a girl's hat , the boy's hand , a dog's bark , a lady's glove ...
M. F. Hyde. Add the apostrophe ( ' ) and s to a singular noun , to form the possessive . WRITTEN EXERCISE . I. Write sentences containing the following : - Helen's letter , a girl's hat , the boy's hand , a dog's bark , a lady's glove ...
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... apostrophe ( ' ) to a plural noun ending in s , to form the possessive . WRITTEN EXERCISES . I. Write sentences containing the possessive plural forms of these words : soldier , boy , pony , teacher , sister , fly , horse , merchant ...
... apostrophe ( ' ) to a plural noun ending in s , to form the possessive . WRITTEN EXERCISES . I. Write sentences containing the possessive plural forms of these words : soldier , boy , pony , teacher , sister , fly , horse , merchant ...
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... apostrophe with these words . my , mine , yours , hers , their , his , our , theirs , your , her , its . ours , LESSON XLVIII . DICTATION EXERCISE . I. Here are the girls ' hats . 2. Here are their hats . 3. These hats are theirs . 4 ...
... apostrophe with these words . my , mine , yours , hers , their , his , our , theirs , your , her , its . ours , LESSON XLVIII . DICTATION EXERCISE . I. Here are the girls ' hats . 2. Here are their hats . 3. These hats are theirs . 4 ...
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Alice's birthday apostrophe apple asserts an action bell bird brown thrush capital letter Cherries ripe COMPOSITION containing the plural Copy the following Copy these sentences denote possession DICTATION EXERCISE Edith Example fill the blanks fly steps following sentences following words form the plural fourth sentence hear horse John Henry Taylor kind of letter knife LESSON LUCY LARCOM mark is placed Mention five words Mention the words mouse orange pencil person or thing picture playmates plural form possessive form pronouns pupil question Read the second Read these sentences REVIEW river second sentence second statement singing sound speak spoken stanza star-spangled banner story Teacher tence third sentence third statement tree verbs walk woman word asserts word describes word in Italics word shows WORDS THAT ASSERT WORDS THAT DENOTE words that mean WORDS THAT SHOW Write sentences containing Write the names Write the words WRITTEN EXERCISE
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Page 105 - BETWEEN the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's occupations, That is known as the Children's Hour. I hear in the chamber above me The patter of little feet, The sound of a door that is opened, And voices soft and sweet. From my study I see in the lamplight, Descending the broad hall stair, Grave Alice, and laughing Allegra, And Edith with golden hair.
Page 76 - WHEN beechen buds begin to swell, And woods the blue-bird's warble know, The yellow violet's modest bell Peeps from the last year's leaves below. Ere russet fields their green resume, Sweet flower, I love, in forest bare, To meet thee, when thy faint perfume Alone is in the virgin air. Of all her train, the hands of Spring First plant thee in the watery mould, And I have seen thee blossoming Beside the snow-bank's edges cold.
Page 53 - There's a merry brown thrush sitting up in the tree ; He's singing to me ! he's singing to me ! And what does he say, little girl, little boy? Oh, the world's running over with joy. Don't you hear? don't you see? Hush ! look in my tree ! I'm as happy as happy can be.
Page 54 - So the merry brown thrush sings away in the tree, To you and to me, to you and to me; And he sings...
Page 80 - SOMEBODY'S MOTHER. The woman was old, and ragged, and gray, And bent with the chill of the winter's day; The street was wet with a recent snow, And the woman's feet were aged and slow. She stood at the crossing and waited long Alone, uncared for, amid the throng Of human beings who passed her by, Nor heeded the glance of her anxious eye. Down the street, with laughter and shout, Glad in the freedom of school let out...
Page 105 - ... the mists of the deep Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows...
Page 37 - Peeping, peeping, here and there, In lawns and meadows everywhere, Coming up to find the spring, And hear the robin redbreast sing ; Creeping under children's feet, Glancing at the violets sweet, Growing into tiny bowers, For the dainty meadow flowers : — We are small, but think a minute Of a world with no grass in it...
Page 46 - The name of a person addressed should be separated from the rest of the sentence by a comma or commas.
Page 64 - At last, when the shadows of evening were falling, And the sun, their great father, his children was calling, Four sunbeams sped into the west. All said, " We have found that in seeking the pleasure Of others, we fill to the full our own measure," — Then softly they sank to their rest.
Page 63 - FOUR little sunbeams came earthward one day, Shining and dancing along on their way, Resolved that their course should be blest.