What is asked in the first sentence? What in the second sentence? What word is used to express permission? What word expresses the power of doing?

WRITTEN EXERCISE.

Copy the following sentences, filling the blanks with some form of may, or can : —

LESSON LVIII.

THINK; GUESS; EXPECT.

1. I think they will come.

2. I could not guess the riddle.

3. I expect a letter to-morrow.

What word is used in the first sentence, to express an opinion?

What does the speaker say in the second sentence?

do when you guess a riddle?

What do you

When does the speaker say he expects a letter? Would it be right to say, "I expect a letter yesterday"? Why not?

Expect refers to future action.

Do not use guess or expect when you mean think.

WRITTEN EXERCISES.

I.

Copy the following sentences, filling the blanks with some form of think, guess, or expect:

II.

Write sentences, using the following verbs correctly:

STOP AND STAY.

1. He could not stop the horses

2. We shall stay in the city two weeks.

What is meant by stopping the horses? What is meant by staying in the city?

What does the word stop mean? What does the word stay mean? Read the following sentences, and give the meanings of the words printed in Italics :

1. Did you stop at Chicago on your way home?

2. Where did you stay while you were in the city?

3. The driver is stopping the car.

4. Mr. Hunt is staying at the Mountain House.

5. The boat will stop at the first landing.

6. They are staying at the hotel.

7. He could not stop the leak.

8. She will stay at home this evening.
9. We shall stay here a few days.

10. Our friends are staying in New York.

MODELS FOR PARSING VERBS, INFINITIVES, AND
PARTICIPLES.

To parse a verb tell

I. Its conjugation-regular or irregular.

2. Its principal parts.

3. Its class

transitive or intransitive.

4. Its voice-active or passive (if transitive).

5. Its mode.

6. Its tense.

7. Its person and number-when it has special forms.

8. Its subject.

Example I.— A flat stone marks the spot where the bard is buried.

Marks is a regular verb-mark, marked, marked. It is transitive, active voice, indicative mode, present tense, third person, singular number, agreeing with its subject stone.

Is buried is the passive form of the regular verb bury — bury, buried, buried. It is transitive, passive voice, indicative mode, present tense, third person, singular number, agreeing with its subject bard.

Example II. The dew was falling fast.

Was falling is the progressive form of the irregular verb fallfall, fell, fallen. It is intransitive, indicative mode, past tense, third person, singular number, agreeing with its subject dew.

Example III.-I may do that I shall be sorry for.

May is a defective verb, transitive, indicative mode, present tense, used with the subject I.*

Do is the present infinitive of the irregular verb do-do, did, done. It is transitive, active voice, object of the verb may.

Shall be, made up of the auxiliary shall and the infinitive of the verb be, is the future tense of the verb be. It is irregular, be, was, been, — intransitive, indicative mode, used with the subject I.

Example IV.- Be silent, that you may hear.

Be is an irregular verb-be, was, been,-intransitive, imperative mode, present tense, used with the subject you understood.

* Grammarians who recognize a potential mode would parse the phrase may do, in this example, as the potential, present, of the verb do.