--_Lowell_.
Exercises on the Composition of the Sentence and the Paragraph.
TO THE TEACHER.--These and similar "Exercises" are entirely outside of the
regular lessons. They are offered to those teachers who may not, from lack
of time or of material, find it convenient to prepare extra or
miscellaneous work better suited to their own needs.
The questions appended to the following sentences are made easy of answer,
but in continuing such exercises the teacher will, of course, so frame the
questions as more and more to throw responsibility on the pupil.
It will be evident that this work aims not only to enforce instruction
given before Lesson 17, but, by an easy and familiar examination of words
and groups of words, to prepare the way for what is afterwards presented
more formally and scientifically. ADAPTED FROM IRVING'S "SKETCH BOOK."
1. From this piazza the wondering Ichabod entered the hall.
2. This hall formed the center of the mansion and the place of usual
residence.
3. Here, rows of resplendent pewter, ranged on a long dresser, dazzled his
eyes.
4. In one corner stood a huge bag of wool ready to be spun.
5. In another corner stood a quantity of linsey-woolsey just from the loom.
6. Ears of Indian corn and strings of dried apples and peaches hung in gay
festoons along the walls.
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