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COMPOSITION--CONNECTED TERMS.
Direction.+--_Using the nouns below, compose sentences with compound
subjects; compose others in which the verbs shall form compound predicates;
and others in which the adjectives, the adverbs, and the phrases shall form
compound modifiers:_--
In some let there be three or more connected terms. Observe Rule, Lesson
21, for punctuation. Let your sentences mean something.
NOUNS.
Washington, beauty, grace, Jefferson, symmetry, lightning, Lincoln,
electricity, copper, silver, flowers, gold, rose, lily.
VERBS.
Examine, sing, pull, push, report, shout, love, hate, like, scream, loathe,
approve, fear, obey, refine, hop, elevate, skip, disapprove.
ADJECTIVES.
+Direction.+--_See Caution, Lesson_ 13.
Bright, acute, patient, careful, apt, forcible, simple, homely, happy,
short, pithy, deep, jolly, mercurial, precipitous.
ADVERBS.
+Direction.+--_See Caution, Lesson 15._ Neatly, slowly, carefully, sadly,
now, here, never, hereafter.
PHRASES.
On sea; in the city; by day; on land; by night; in the country; by hook;
across the ocean; by crook; over the lands; along the level road; up the
mountains.
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LESSON 24.
REVIEW.
CAPITAL LETTERS AND PUNCTUATION.


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