English Grammar and Composition Author:Larkin Dunton Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 4. Will you join me at twelve o'clock ? 5. Call at my house on your way home. 6. The camel is called the ship of the desert. 7. Learn to labor and to wa... more »it. 8. How blue the sky looks ! 9. The seeds of the pine tree are hidden in the pine cone. 10. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience. 11. Deep in the wave is a coral grove. 12. The springing grass and the swelling buds give promise of warmer weather. IV. ? NOUNS. Study the following words. Think of the object or quality for which each word stands : Boy, man, girl, woman, father, mother, dog, cat, hen, duck, goose, robin, swallow, horse, colt, cow, calf, tree, bush, grass, flower, stone, iron, lead, gold, silver, love, patience, truth. These words are the names of things or of qualities about which we' can think. Such words are called nouns. A noun is a word used as a name. A noun is a part of speech. Point out the nouns in each of the, following sentences: 1. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. 2. The love of money is the root of all evil. 8. Gold and silver are precious metals. 4. Tall oaks from little acorns grow. 5. Daniel Webster was distinguished as an orator. To The Teacher. ? Illustrations for further drill may be found on page 208 and the pages following. chapter{Section 4Make a list of the names of all the animals you can recall; another list of the names of vegetables used for food. Write five sentences about animals, and five about vegetables, using names from the lists you have just made, and underline the nouns in each sentence. V. ?PRONOUNS. The teacher could say, " The teacher called John and told John to bring the teacher John's book;" but such an expression would not be good English. It would be better for the teac...« less