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"A work on english grammar and composition"

Impossible!
+Direction+.--_Contract these by omitting the subject or the verb_:--
1. Art thou gone?
2. Will you take your chance?
3. His career was ably run.
4. Are you a captain?
5. May long life be to the republic.
6. How great is the mystery!
7. Canst thou wonder?
8. May a prosperous voyage be to you.
9. Are you here?
+Direction+.--_Contract these by omitting both subject and verb, and note
the gain in force and animation_:--
1. I offer a world for sale.
2. Now, then, go you to breakfast.
3. Sit you down, soothless insulter.
4. I want a word with you, wife.
5. Those are my sentiments, madam.
6. Bring ye lights there.
7. It is true, sir.
8. We will drink a health to Preciosa.
9. I offer a penny for your thoughts.
10. Whither are you going so early?
+Direction+.--_Construct ten full sentences, using in each, one of these
adverbs or phrases or nouns, and then contract the sentences by omitting
both subject and verb_:--
Why, hence, to arms, silence, out, to your tents, peaches, room, for the
guns, water.
* * * * *
LESSON 58.
REVIEW.
TO THE TEACHER.--See suggestions, Lesson 16.
+Direction+.--_Review from Lesson_ 51 _to Lesson_ 57, _inclusive_.
Illustrate the different positions--Usual and Transposed--that the words
and phrases of a declarative sentence may take; illustrate the different
positions of the parts of an interrogative, of an imperative, and of an
exclamatory sentence; illustrate the different ways of contracting
sentences.


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