West Point: An Intimate Picture of the National Military Academy and of the Life of the CadetRichardson, Robert C. (Robert Charlwood)
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West Point: An Intimate Picture of the National Military Academy and of the Life of the Cadet
Richardson, Robert C. (Robert Charlwood)
United States Military Academy
2. Write a simple sentence containing a compound subject. Write a
simple sentence containing a compound predicate. Write a complex
sentence containing an adjective clause. Write a complex sentence
containing an adverbial clause of manner. Write a sentence
containing a preposition with a compound object. Write a sentence
containing an adverb clause of time. Write a sentence containing a
noun (or substitute) clause used as the subject of the sentence.
Write a complex sentence containing an adverb clause of place.
Write a sentence containing an adjective phrase, and an adverb
phrase. Write a sentence containing a verb in the passive voice.
3. Write sentences containing the following: The preterite (or
past) tense (active voice) of the verb “choose.” The perfect tense
(active voice) of the verb “swim.” The pluperfect (or past perfect)
tense (active voice) of the verb “burst.” The future perfect tense
(active voice) of the verb “eat.” The perfect tense (active voice)
of the verb “know.” The present participle of the verb “lie.” The
perfect infinite of the verb “study.” The perfect participle of
the verb “knock.” The future tense, passive voice, of the verb
“defeat.” The future perfect tense, passive voice, of the verb
“pay.”
4. In the passage below, indicate the gender of all the nouns and
pronouns by the following device: Underscore once those that are
masculine; twice those that are feminine; thrice all those that are
neither.
“The bride kissed the goblet, the knight took it up.
He quaffed off the wine, and he threw down the cup,
She looked down to blush, and she looked up to sigh,
With a smile on her lips and a tear in her eye.
He took her soft hand ere her mother could bar,--
‘Now tread we a measure!’ said young Lochinvar.
So stately her form and so lovely her face,
That never a hall such a galliard did grace;
While her mother did fret, and her father did fume,
And the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and plume;
And the bride-maidens whispered, ‘‘Twere better by far,
To have matched our fair cousin with young Lochinvar.’”
5. Write sentences containing the following: An auxiliary verb.
The comparative of “recent.” The superlative of “bad.” The plural
of “lily.” The masculine of “witch.” An intransitive verb. A
collective noun. The comparative of “lazy.” The plural of “shelf.”
The plural of “ruby.”
6. Parse the words in italics in the following sentences: “Some
soils, _like_ the rocky tract _called_ the Estabrooke Country in
_my_ neighbourhood, is so suited to the apple, that it will grow
_faster_ in _them without any_ care, _than_ it _will_ in many
places with any amount of _care_.”--Henry D. Thoreau.
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