LESSON 47. SENTENCE-BUILDING.

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Supply attribute complements to the following expressions. (See Caution,
Lesson 40.)

The marble feels ——. Mary looks ——. The weather continues ——. The apple tastes ——. That lady appears ——. The sky grows ——. The leaves of roses are ——. The undertaking was pronounced ——.

Write a subject and a predicate to each of the following nouns taken as attribute complements.

+Model+.—Soldier.—That old man has been a soldier.

Plant, insect, mineral, vegetable, liquid, gas, solid, historian, poet, artist, traveler, emperor.

Using the following nouns as subjects, build sentences each having a simple predicate and two or more object complements.

Congress, storm, education, king, tiger, hunter, Arnold, shoemakers, lawyers, merchant.

Build three sentences on each of the following subjects, two of which shall contain object complements, and the third, an attribute complement.

+Model+.—Sun.—
The sun gives light.
The sun warms the earth.
The sun is a luminous body.

Moon, oak, fire, whiskey.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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