isua-isnscatalog-1880-1881-017

Description:	STATE NORMAL SCHOOL. 17opportunity to supplement the recitation work in this branch of read¬ ing by appropriate exercises in the literary societies connected with .the school and by reading original themes before the entire school.ENGLISH GRAMMAR.FIRST GENERAL DIVISION—SENTENCES.I. Definition—A sentence is a group of words expressing a thought.II. Necessary elements of a sentence—1. Subject 2. Predicate 3. Assertion, or Copula.III. Necessary elements of a thought—1. The object of which the mind thinks, called the subject 2. The object or attribute in relation to which the subject is viewed, called the predicate 3. The relation which is thought between the subject and the predicate, called the re¬ lation, or connecting element.IV. Classes of predicates—1. In respect to meaning—(a) Substan¬ tive (b) Attributive. 2. In respect to form—(a) Combined with as¬ sertion (b) Uncombined.V. Modifiers—1. Of subject—(a) Adjective (b) Possessive (c) Apposi- tive. 2. Of substantive predicate—Same as of subject. 3. Of attribu¬ tive predicate—(a) Adverbial (b) Objective—direct and indirect.4. Of assertion—adverbial.VI. Classes of sentences in respect to meaning—1. Declarative—(a) Definition (b) Arrangement of elements (c)Punctuation. 2. Inter¬ rogative—(a) Definition (b) What elements of thought expressed may be inquired for (c) Arrangement of sentence elements (d) Sen¬ tences interrogative in form, but declarative in meaning (e) Punctu¬ ation. 3. Exclamatory—(a) Definition (b) Difference between and a sentence not exclamatory, but accompanied by feeling word (c) Ar¬ rangement of elements (d) Punctuation. 4. Imperative—(a) Defini¬ tion (b) Punctuation.VII. Classes of sentences with respect to the number and the rela¬ tion of the propositions—1. Simple. 2. Compound—(a) Definition  (b) Relation between the thoughts expressed by the members—addi¬ tion, opposition, alternation, reason and conclusion (c) Punctuation. 3. Complex—(a) Definition (b) Kinds of clauses used in forming— Substantive, adjective, adverbial.VIII. Sentences containing Participial and Infinitive forms—1. Mark or definition of the infinitive and of the participle. 2. What each expresses. 3. Uses and modifiers of each. 4. Classes of infini¬ tives—(a) Root (b) Participial, or the Gerund. 5. Nature and uses of clausal phrases.2—S. N. S.
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