English Spoken and Written: Lessons in language, literature, and composition

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Contents

A Story to be Written
34
LESSON PAGE 33 How to Use the Dictionary
37
Exercise in Silent Reading The Sphinx
38
Home Preparations for Winter Sentence Grouping
40
Birds Paragraph Writing
41
Study of a Picture The End of Day
42
The Tree Mental Picturing
43
Fur Bearers Paragraph Writing
46
Childs Play Explaining Things
47
Composition Subjects or Titles
48
Humble Helpers Exercises in Composition
49
Pumpkins Observation and Conversation
50
Winter Paragraph and Sentence Study
52
An Exercise in Planning and Writing
53
Little Lessons in History
54
A Picture Lesson Attacked by Wolves
56
A Story Suggested by a Picture
57
Home Sweet Home A Song
58
Contractions An Exercise in Observation
59
A Lesson in Good Form Contractions
60
Bits of Local Lore Conversation and Composition
61
Picture Study and Composition The Meeting
63
A Story to be Retold
64
Practice in Using Quotation Marks
65
Quotations at Beginning of Sentences
66
The Important Corporal A Character Study
67
A Use of the Comma
68
The Monkey and the Cats Reproduction
69
Practice Punctuation of Quotations
71
Lullaby for Titania For Memorizing
72
The Parts of a Sentence
74
The Predicate of a Sentence
75
Robert of Lincoln A Life History in Verse
81
The Heading
95
Exercises in Letterwriting
106
The Sower Conversation about a Great Picture
110
The Throstle Study of Poetry
111
Social Notes
112
Nouns
113
Practice Dandelions
114
Common and Proper Nouns
115
Surnames and Given Names
116
Reading and Mental Picturing Barbarossa
117
Legends and Other Tales
118
Composition
119
Making an Outline
120
Writing from Outlines 122 Synonyms and Antonyms 123 The Defense of Thermopyla Narration 124 Order in Storytelling 120
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Conversation
126
May
137
A Beautiful Word Picture From Sir Launfal
140
Verbs and What they Do 129 A Useful Verb
141
The Verbphrase
142
Complements 132 An Exercise in Storytelling
144
Review
145
Brittany
147
Study of Troublesome Forms 145 Avoiding Mistakes Shall or Will
156
A Reading Exercise How Arthur became King
157
Rain An Exercise in Explanation
158
Review
159
How Nouns show Possession
160
Irregular Possessive Forms
161
Review
162
Paragraph Writing The Topic Sentence
163
A Reading Exercise
164
A Study of Synonyms
165
Pronouns
166
Practice in the Use of Pronouns
167
A Quotation within a Quotation
168
Personal Pronouns
169
How to Use Personal Pronouns
170
The Proper Order of Pronouns
171
Picture Study and Composition Visiting
172
Modifiers Explained and Defined
173
Simple Subject and Simple Predicate
174
Adjectives
175
Other Adjectives
176
Uses of the Hyphen The Cornfield
177
Word Building Prefixes and Suffixes
178
A Study of Some Prefixes
179
Word Pictures in Poetry and Prose
180
The Study of a Picture Landscape with Mill
181
Lesson in Synonyms
182
Two Famous Explorers
183
Helping the Shoemaker
184
What my Old Shoe Told
185
Waves after a Storm
186
The Gentlemanly Horse
187
Irregular Comparison
188
A Swiss Legend
194
A Review
201
Mental Picturing An Exercise in Storytelling
203
Degrees of Quality
204
Comparison of Adjectives xiii
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161
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Warrens Address
218
History Story to be Retold Putnam and the Wolf
224
Leading Industries of New England An Exercise in Para
228
Variety of Expression
230
A Poets Call
234
Conjunctions
237
Character Study and Description
245
Independent and Dependent Clauses
251
Picture Study The Fishermans Daughter
257
Summary
266
Review of Punctuation
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Before the Rain Poetic Pictures 140
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Page 161 - I BRING fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams ; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun.
Page 72 - Philomel, with melody Sing in our sweet lullaby; Lulla, lulla, lullaby ; lulla, lulla, lullaby ; Never harm, nor spell nor charm, Come our lovely lady nigh; So, good night, with lullaby.
Page 58 - HOME. :Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home...
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Page 220 - The wonderful air is over me, And the wonderful wind is shaking the tree; It walks on the water, and whirls the mills, And talks to itself on the tops of the hills.
Page 17 - We were crowded in the cabin, Not a soul would dare to sleep, — It was midnight on the waters, And a storm was on the deep. 'Tis a fearful thing in winter To be shattered by the blast, And to hear the rattling trumpet Thunder, " Cut away the mast ! " So we shuddered there in silence, — For the stoutest held his breath.
Page 263 - Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend, For the lesson thou hast taught ) Thus at the flaming forge of life Our fortunes must be wrought ; Thus on its sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought.
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Page 35 - Without a sound of warning; , : When on the ground red apples lie In piles like jewels shining, And redder still on old stone walls Are leaves of woodbine twining...

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