Higher Lessons in English Part 25

4. The man seemed an incarnate demon.

5. Henry VIII. had become a despot.

+Direction+.--_Using these nouns as attribute complements, write three sentences in the usual order, and then transpose them_:--

Rock, desert, fortress.

+Direction+.--_Restore these sentences to their usual order by moving the adjective complement and the verb to their customary places_:--

1. Happy are we to-night, boys.

2. Good and upright is the Lord.

3. Hotter grew the air.

4. Pale looks your Grace.

5. Dark rolled the waves.

6. Louder waxed the applause.

7. Blood-red became the sun.

8. Doubtful seemed the battle.

9. Wise are all his ways.

10. Wide open stood the doors.

11. Weary had he grown.

12. Faithful proved he to the last.

+Direction+.--_Transpose these sentences by moving the adjective complement and the verb_:--

1. My regrets were bitter and unavailing.

2. The anger of the righteous is weighty.

3. The air seemed deep and dark.

4. She had grown tall and queenly.

5. The peacemakers are blessed.

6. I came into the world helpless.

7. The untrodden snow lay bloodless.

8. The fall of that house was great.

9. The uproar became intolerable.

10. The secretary stood alone.

+Direction+.--_Write five transposed sentences, each with one of these adjectives as attribute complement, and then restore the sentences to the usual order_:--

Tempestuous, huge, glorious, lively, fierce.

LESSON 54.

ARRANGEMENT--TRANSPOSED ORDER.

+Direction+.--_Restore these sentences to the usual order by moving the adverb and the verb to their customary places, and note the loss_:--

1. Then burst his mighty heart.

2. Here stands the man.

3. Crack! went the ropes.

4. Down came the masts.

5. So died the great Columbus of the skies.

6. Tictac! tictac! go the wheels of thought.

7. Away went Gilpin.

8. Off went his bonnet.

9. Well have ye judged.

10. On swept the lines.

11. There dozed the donkeys.

12. Boom! boom! went the guns.

13. Thus waned the afternoon.

14. There thunders the cataract age after age.

+Direction+.--_Transpose these sentences by moving the adverb and the verb_:--

1. I will never desert Mr. Micawber.

2. The great event occurred soon after.

3. The boy stood there with dizzy brain.

4. The Spaniard's shot went whing! whing!

5. Catiline shall no longer plot her ruin.

6. A sincere word was never utterly lost.

7. It stands written so.

8. Venus was yet the morning star.

9. You must speak thus.

10. Lady Impudence goes up to the maid.

11. Thy proud waves shall be stayed here.

+Direction+.--_Write ten sentences in the transposed order, using these adverbs_:--

Still, here, now, so, seldom, there, out, yet, thus, never.

+Direction+.--_Restore these sentences to the usual order by moving the phrase and the verb to their customary places, and note the loss_:--

1. Behind her rode Lalla Rookh.

2. Seven years after the Restoration appeared Paradise Lost.

3. Into the valley of death rode the six hundred.

4. To such straits is a kaiser driven.

5. Upon such a grating hinge opened the door of his daily life.

6. Between them lay a mountain ridge.

7. In purple was she robed.

8. Near the surface are found the implements of bronze.

9. Through the narrow bazaar pressed the demure donkeys.

10. In those days came John the Baptist.

11. On the 17th of June, 1775, was fought the battle of Bunker Hill.

12. Three times were the Romans driven back.

+Direction+.--_Transpose these sentences by moving the phrase and the verb_:--

1. The disciples came at the same time.

2. The dreamy murmur of insects was heard over our heads.

3. An ancient and stately hall stood near the village.