into practice what you have learned about paragraph development and story telling.

1. A Brave Lighthouse Keeper

2. A Daring Forest Ranger

3. Father Damien

4. A Loyal Telephone Girl
5. A Courageous "Cop"

6. A Member of the Life Guards
7. A Sheriff Who Isn't Afraid

16. GENDER

Gender is that quality or change of form of a noun or pronoun which indicates distinctions of sex.

Nouns have three genders—the masculine gender, indicating the male sex; the feminine gender, indicating the female sex; the neuter gender, indicating those things which have no sex.

In the sentence, "Pershing was a great general,” Pershing names a man. Therefore, the noun Pershing is masculine gender.

In the sentence "Mary is reciting," Mary names a girl. Therefore, the noun Mary is feminine gender.

Words representing either masculine or feminine gender are said to be of common gender.

Example: people, children.

In the sentence, "The mountains are beautiful," mountains are things which have no sex. Therefore, the noun mountains is neuter gender.

Tell the gender of the nouns used in the paragraph on page 10.

Assignment for fast workers. An apt and fitting word does more than anything else to make one's speech and writing effective. Colonel Roosevelt was distinguished for his remarkable ability to apply a Who has not heard of the "square deal,' "strenuous life," "gag rule," "nature fakirs"? From Pilgrim's Progress he took the term "muck rakers.' In the World War he attacked "hyphenated Americans."

name.

1. Find out what Colonel Roosevelt meant by each of these terms.

2. Study the two paragraphs by Longfellow on page 45 to find nouns that are particularly fitting.

17. TEST DRILL-NOUNS

1. What are common nouns? proper nouns? Name three of each.

2. Name ten collective nouns. Use three of them in sentences.

3. Select the abstract nouns from the following list:

He got it from me.
They took it from him.
I'll get it from you.

3. Common Errors Corrected

18. PUNCTUATION EXERCISE

REVIEW OF TERMINAL MARKS AND COMMAS

Copy this story, dividing it into paragraphs and sentences. Insert capitals, commas, and other marks of punctuation where necessary. Be prepared to give the rule for every comma which you use.

Make a new paragraph for each speaker in the conversational part of the story.

THE FOX IN THE WELL

a fox fell into a well he tried by sticking his claws into the sides to keep his head above water soon a wolf came and peeped over the brink the fox appealed to him for aid begging for a rope or something which might aid him to escape the wolf moved with compassion at his misfortune expressed his concern ah poor Reynard said he I am sorry for you with all my heart how did you get into this sad condition friend replied the fox if you wish me well do not stand there pitying me but get me some help as fast as you can pity is cold comfort when one is up to the chin in water and within a hair's breadth of drowning

19. PARAGRAPH STUDY

MANNERS

There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be but to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing

things; each, once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage. They form at last a rich varnish with which the routine of life is washed and its details adorned. If they are superficial, so are the dew-drops which give such a depth to the morning meadows.

The power of manners is incessant-an element as unconcealable as fire. The nobility cannot in any country be disguised, and no more in a republic or a democracy than in a kingdom. No man can resist their influence. There are certain manners which are learned in good society, of that force that if a person have them, he or she must be considered, and is everywhere welcome, though without beauty, or wealth, or genius. Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes wherever he goes.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

What one idea does Mr. Emerson bring out in the first paragraph of Manners? What topic would you give this paragraph?

What is the main thought of the second paragraph? Write a topic for this paragraph.

This is a good place to review what you have learned about the paragraph.

What is meant by the topic sentence?

What is meant by an intruder sentence in a paragraph?

How can you tell whether a sentence belongs in a paragraph?

Write a paragraph on one of the following topics:

1. How I Earned a Dollar

2. Teaching My Dog a Trick

3. Making a Collection of Stamps
4. My Favorite Study

5. My Favorite Moving Picture Actor

6. How I Got Lost

7. How I Reached Home

Go over your paragraph to see if you can improve it. Did you have to look up the spelling of any words? If so, put them in your personal spelling list.

20. SPEAKING TO AN AUDIENCE

As you go through life, you may be called upon to speak to an audience. Here are a few suggestions which will be helpful to you in making yourself an interesting speaker:

1. Show by your voice that you mean what you say and say what you mean.

2. Have something worth while to say when you talk.

3. Avoid the habit of saying and, and, why, why. 4. Watch your articulation, enunciation, and pronunciation.

5. Stop when you are through with your speech.

If you are going to speak before your class or an audience on a prepared subject, have a card in your hand on which are written certain guide words. These words should be such as will serve to—

1. Remind you of your opening remark.

2. Remind you of what comes next.

3. List important points in order, so that you will not forget to say what you have planned to say. 4. Let you know when you have finished.

You will wish to use every device to hold your audience. A good posture is one. Practice standing