junctions. Remember that correlative conjunctions should always stand directly before the words or groups of words that they connect. 54. COMBINING SENTENCES Make one sentence of each of the following groups of sentences. Tell whether you have made a simple, a complex, or a compound sentence. Ask yourself, "Has the sentence onę subject and one predicate?" 1. The monument is in Washington. It was built in honor of our first President. 2. The statue represents Liberty. It is in New York harbor. It was presented to the United States by France. 3. The trees beautify the school grounds. They are elms. 4. The life-saving crew showed great heroism. They saved the man. He was sinking for the third time. 5. The ship started on its voyage. The whistles were blowing. The band was playing. 6. My brother and I built a raft. It was of green aspen logs. We set it afloat. 7. It was a warm spring day. We went into the woods. We hoped to find some arbutus. 8. Jack had a new gun for Christmas. It was a Winchester rifle. 9. Winter is the coldest season of the year. makes it very enjoyable. Christmas 10. The factories belched forth columns of smoke. The smoke was black and disagreeable. 11. John went to the store. He bought a pocketknife. He gave the knife to his brother for a birthday gift. 12. Do not kill the birds. They eat injurious insects. They protect the fruit and vegetables. 13. The hunters came. The quails flew away. They did not want to be killed by the hunters. 14. John Wanamaker was a poor boy. He paid strict attention to business. He became one of the world's greatest merchants. 15. James Whitcomb Riley was the Hoosier poet. wrote many poems of childhood. He loved children. He Here are a few more Assignment for fast workers. difficult problems in combining sentences. 1. General John J. Pershing was the American Commander in the great World War. He was retired September 12, 1924. He was sixty-four years old. This is the retirement age in the army. 2. All night the music of the nightingale filled the moonlit valley. The moon sank gradually. The first pink tinges of dawn began to show in the east. 3. For a few days we enjoyed the raft. The green wood began to get water-logged. We should have used seasoned material. 4. The bark began to disappear from our raft. The beavers took it for food. We threw in plenty for them to eat. 55. ENRICHING THE VOCABULARY Arrange the following words in alphabetical order, giving the correct syllabication of each word. Look in the dictionary for correct pronunciation and meaning of words. Place a check mark after every word that you now use in your own vocabulary. How many new words. must you add today? Use them in sentences to assure yourself that the meaning is clear: 極富 3. support 9. courteous 13. opinion 15. demerits 17. disapproving 18. standpoint 56. WRITING FRIENDLY LETTERS I A letter written to a friend should be written as one would talk if conversing with that friend. It should deal with matters in which you and your friend are mutually interested. A good letter writer expresses in his own original way the things that he wishes to say. When you write a letter, you should look it over very carefully before you send it, to be sure that it is neat and accurately written. Here is a letter in which the writer seems to be talking: Dear Harry, 1652 Park Road I know you will have a good laugh when you read what happened to us the other night. Mother had gone out, leaving Alice, Dan, and me alone. Dan undressed in the living room by the fire and went across the hall on his way to bed. No sooner had he passed the door, than he gave a blood-curdling scream and came back looking as if he had seen a ghost. That was enough for Alice and me. We jumped up, got behind the table, and began to scream at the top of our lungs. As nobody came to our aid, I ran out into the yard and met the man who lives next door hurrying to us bareheaded, holding a big pistol in his hand. Then we calmed down long enough to ask Dan what he had seen, and he tearfully informed us that there was a big black cat in the hall! Now wouldn't you like to know what poor Mr. Man-nextdoor thought? Affectionately yours, May Read the letter May wrote to her small friend. Imagine you are Mr. Man-next-door. Write the letter he might have written his son John, who is away on a visit, telling him of the girls' mistake. Point out the five parts in the letter you have just read. What kind of punctuation does an abbreviation require? If the word my were used before dear in the salutation of May's letter, what change would have to be made in capitalization? Read the first sentence and the last sentence in the body of the letter. What punctuation is always used after the complimentary close? What word or words in the complimentary close begin with a capital? II POINTS TO REMEMBER IN WRITING LETTERS In writing letters always be very careful of your spelling and punctuation. Be neat and accurate. Never divide a word at the end of a line except at the end of a syllable. Indent the first word in every paragraph. Always try to use a good pen, good ink, good paper, and a blotter. Just as a person is judged by his dress, so he is judged by the kind of material he uses in writing letters. It is not good form when writing a letter to go from the first page to the fourth, then back to the second, then to the third, etc. It is better to write the letter pages just as they come. Sometimes, if there are four letter pages and you write only enough to fill two pages, it is better to finish the letter on the fourth page instead of the second page. It is very awkward to crowd your last sentence or two at the bottom of a page and thus be forced to put the complimentary close and the signature on another page. It is better to rewrite your letter than to do this. Always fold your letter neatly before putting it into the envelope. Letter paper for friendly letters ought, preferably, to be white, unruled paper. The envelope and the paper should match, and the paper, when properly folded, should fit neatly into the envelope. The four-page sheet of paper generally used should be folded once by turning the lower half evenly over the upper half. Bad spelling is a mark of illiteracy. Your personal spelling list should have corrected a bad spelling habit by this time. Friendly letters should never be written on business paper and should not be typewritten. The usual size of writing paper for women's correspondence is 534 x 614 inches. Assignment. Draw as neatly as you can the outline of an envelope on a piece of paper. Choose a surname for Harry, as well as the name of the street, city, and state where he lives, and write the superscription or outside address on the envelope. What must you put in the upper left-hand corner of the envelope to be sure that the letter will not be lost? |