Chapter LXIV: Review of Verbs: Parsing

=266.= Study again Lessons XXIII-XXVII, XLIX-LXIII. Make an outline of verbs, having the following main topics:—

(1) Classification.

(2) Properties.

(3) Conjugation.

(4) Principal Parts.

(5) Auxiliaries.

(6) Agreement.

Fill in the subtopics and recite in detail from your outline with illustrations of every point.

=Exercise.=—Parse the verbs in the following sentences according to the outline on p. 150:—

1. If you have a Halloween party, shall you invite the Cromers?

2. At first the chemist said he couldn’t do anything about it;
but when Agamemnon said they would pay in gold if he would only
go, he packed up his bottles in a leather case, and went back
with the Peterkins.

3.

Faith’s journeys end is welcome to the weary,
And heaven, the heart’s true home, will come at last.

4. We are going to have a tile well, and Mr. Jones is going to
oversee the men who dig it.

5. This woodchuck was neither handsome nor interesting, but he
knew how to take care of himself.

6. Sheep are usually kept in flocks of from one thousand to
three thousand under one or more shepherds.

7. Rabbits telegraph each other by thumping on the ground with
their hind feet.

8. Lady Moon, Lady Moon, where are you roving?

9.

Breast the wave, Christian, when it is strongest.
Watch for day, Christian, when the night’s longest.

10. Even so did men talk round the king’s cages at Oodeypore.

11. Your Uncle Nathan and I used to be called the bothering
Bodleys, because we were always teasing to find out something.

12. The Peterkins had been so busy inside the house that they
had not noticed the ceasing of the storm outside.

13. For thou, Lord, wilt give thy blessing unto the righteous,
and with thy favorable kindness wilt thou defend him as with a
shield.

14. My father’s, like every other young ladies’ school near
a village, was very much disturbed by the attentions of the
village young men.

15. If any man have a hundred sheep, and one of them be gone
astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine and go into the
mountains and seek that which goeth astray?

16. They were sitting round the breakfast table and wondering
what they should do because the lady from Philadelphia had gone
away.