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Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition by Kellogg, Brainerd, Reed, Alonzo, 1899-
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A word from our supporters: File extension EPS | The dark sunny That bright wearisome This dingy commercial Those short blue These soft adventurous Five brave fleecy Some tiny parallel Several important cheerless Many long golden A warm turbid +Direction+.--_Prefix to each of these nouns several appropriate adjectives:_-- River, frost, grain, ships, air, men. +Direction+.--_Couple those adjectives and nouns below that most appropriately go together:_-- Modest, lovely, flaunting, meek, patient, faithful, saucy, spirited, violet, dahlia, sheep, pansy, ox, dog, horse, rose, gentle, duck, sly, waddling, cooing, chattering, homely, chirping, puss, robin, dove, sparrow, blackbird, cow, hen, cackling. * * * * *LESSON 14.MODIFIED PREDICATE.ADVERBS.+Introductory Hints+.--You have learned that the subject may be modified; let us see whether the predicate may be. If we say, _The leaves fall_, we express a fact in a general way. But, if we wish to speak of the time of their falling, we can add a word and say, The leaves fall _early_; of the place of their falling, The leaves fall _here_; of the manner, The leaves fall _quietly_; of the cause, _Why_ do the leaves fall? We may join a word to one of these modifiers and say, The leaves fall _very_ quietly. Here _very_ modifies _quietly_ by telling the degree. _Very quietly_ is a group of words modifying the predicate. The predicate with its modifiers is called the +Modified Predicate+. Such words as _very, here_, and _quietly_ form another part of speech, and are called +Adverbs+ (Lat. _ad_, to, and _verbum_, a word, or verb). Adverbs may modify adjectives; as, _Very ripe_ apples are healthful. Adverbs modify verbs just as adjectives modify nouns--by limiting them. The horse has a _proud step_ = The horse _steps proudly_. The +Predicate+ with its +Modifiers+ is called the +Modified +Predicate, or _Logical Predicate_. +DEFINITION.--An _Adverb_ is a word used to modify a verb, an adjective, or an adverb.+ [Footnote: See Lesson 92 and foot-note.] Analysis and Parsing. 1. The leaves fall very quietly. leaves | fall ========|====== \The | \quietly \very +Oral Analysis+.--_Very quietly_ is a modifier of the predicate; _quietly_ is the principal word of the group; _very_ modifies _quietly_; _the leaves_ is the modified subject; _fall very quietly_ is the modified predicate. +Parsing+.--_Quietly_ is an adverb modifying _fall_, telling the manner; _very_ is an adverb modifying _quietly_, telling the degree. |