board and write one or two paragraphs about it. You may develop your composition in any one of three ways. You can describe the device, explain how it works, or tell the story of seeing it used. Label your composition, description, exposition, or narration.

Painting the Church Steeple

Printing a Book or a Newspaper
Towing a Wrecked Automobile
Mixing Cement

Putting a New Roof on Our House
Filling a Silo

Loading Animals on to a Steamship
Excavating with a Steam Shovel

171. DIAGRAMS

A diagram is a picture which shows the relation of the different parts of a sentence. Its chief advantage is to show quickly and vividly the relations of the different parts of a sentence.

Hard-adjective modifying the noun work. well-adverb modifying the verb pays.

III

SIMPLE SENTENCE WITH AN ADJECTIVAL AND AN ADVERBIAL PHRASE

Hard work in our youth pays well in old age.

IV

COMPOUND SUBJECT AND COMPOUND PREDICATE

Boys and girls work and play.

Boys

girls

and

and

work

Boys and girls-compound subject. work and play-compound predicate.

play

V

COMFOUND PHRASE

Wheat is raised in the United States and in Canada.

OBJECT AND OBJECTIVE COMPLEMENT

They elected James chairman.

They elected chairman | James

chairman-objective complement. James-object complement.

VII

ATTRIBUTE COMPLEMENT AND APPOSITION

Mary, my sister, is the leader.

COMPOUND SENTENCE

The bell has rung and school has begun.

The bell has rung-first independent clause. school has begun-second independent clause.

X

COMPLEX SENTENCE AND ADJECTIVAL CLAUSE

The boy who is honest is respected.

COMPLEX SENTENCE AND ADVERBIAL CLAUSE

Patriots respond when duty calls.

COMPLEX SENTENCE NOUN CLAUSE

That fresh air is necessary is acknowledged by everybody.