1. Ah! you are an April poem.

2. Know ye that the Lord he is God.

3. I heard the bells on Christmas Day.

4. The great throat of the chimney laughed.

5. Then he climbed the tower of the Old North Church.

6. If we have promised them aught, let us keep our promise.

7. Oh! young Lochinvar is come out of the West.

8. I chatter, chatter, as I flow

To join the brimming river.

9. Is not God upon the ocean,

Just the same as on the land? 10. Love loveth best of all the year October's bright blue weather.

11. Heaven and earth help him who plants a tree, And his work his own reward will be.

12. Breathes there a man with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,

This is my own, my native land?
Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned,
As home his footsteps he hath turned

From wandering on a foreign strand?

(2) Read "The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England" (Appendix) carefully. Tell the part of speech of each word in the last three stanzas.

(3) Note the picture of the Mayflower. Who were the Pilgrims? Why did they come to America? With the aid of your history, write a paragraph giving an account of the voyage of the Pilgrims in the Mayflower. Tell the part of speech of the first thirty words in the paragraph.

As we see here, the subject of a sentence may consist of a single word, as Mary; or of a group of words, as A friend of Mary's.

If the subject consists of a single word, the word is always a substantive (noun or pronoun or word used as a noun).

If the subject consists of a group of words, the group contains a substantive, which forms the essential, or principal, part of the subject, as friend in the foregoing example. The essential, or principal, part of the subject is called the subject substantive to distinguish it from the entire, or complete, subject.

For other examples of subject substantive, note the italicized part of the complete subject of the following sentences:

The subject substantive is the essential, or principal,

part of the complete subject.

The subject substantive is often called the simple subject.

27. Predicate Verb Defined. Note these exam

ples:

Charles came.

Mary stayed in school.

As we see here, the predicate of a sentence may consist of a single word, as came; or a group of words, as stayed in school.

If the predicate consists of a single word, the word is always a verb.

If the predicate consists of a group of words, the group contains a verb, which forms the essential, or principal, part of the predicate, as stayed in the foregoing example. The essential, or principal, part of the predicate is called the predicate verb to distinguish it from the entire, or complete, predicate.

For other examples of predicate verb, note the italicized part of the complete predicate of the following sentences:

Who told you this?

Charles has not yet come home.

A lie faces God and shrinks from man.

The predicate verb is the essential, or principal, part of the complete predicate.

The predicate verb is often called the simple predicate.

28. Subject or Verb Omitted. — The subject of an imperative sentence is not generally expressed except for emphasis; as,

Go (you go) with me.

The verb, when it can readily be supplied, is sometimes omitted; as,

This is mine; that, yours (is yours).