186 USING OTHER VERB FORMS 1. Our cat often lies by the open fire. 2. Sometimes when it is very cold, Fido lies on the other side of the fireplace. 3. Yesterday they both lay there fast asleep. 4. They had lain there an hour when Jack came home. 5. They did not lie still very long after Jack came. The verb lie means to rest. Copy the following sentences, filling the spaces with 7. They thought 'twould be better that stormy night Το down and sleep than to quarrel and fight. 8. The angel of the flowers one day Beneath a rose-tree sleeping 9. The sea and the sky like a load on my weary eye. 10. The snow did not on the ground. 187 USING THE VERB LAY One of you may stand at the front of the room and give the following directions, calling on a different child each time. Each child must obey the order promptly, and then tell what he did. 1. Lay your history on your desk, 2. Lay the chalk on the blackboard ledge, 3. Lay your arithmetic paper inside of your book, 4. Lay your spelling book on the teacher's desk, 5. Lay your pencil on your desk, The verb lay means to place. Copy the following sentences, filling the spaces with a form of the verb lay. 1. Who stole the four eggs I And the nice nest I made? 2. The rain has 3. I have 4. John 5. Father 6. Did you 7. Fred 8. Our hens 9. Stuart 10. Frank has 11. The mason 12. Mary the dust. all my things out ready for school. his fishing line on the porch steps. his watch on the bureau every night. your coat on the bed? his bag of marbles on the table. a great many eggs. the wood on the hearth. the bricks on the wall. - her book down and lost it. 188 USING SIT AND SET One of you may stand at the front of the room and give the following directions, calling on a different child each time. Each child must obey the order Other promptly and must then tell what he did. directions may be added if you wish. 1. Sit up straight, 2. Sit near the teacher's desk, 3. Sit on the right side of the room, 4. Sit in the vacant seat, 5. Sit in the back part of the room, 6. Sit by Another child may go to the front of the room and give the following directions to different children. Each child must perform the action and then tell what he did. 1. Set the pitcher on the table, 2. Set the chair near the door, 3. Set the flowers on the window-sill, 4. Set the chair in front of the teacher's desk, 5. Set the window stick in the corner, 6. Set the box of chalk on the teacher's desk. Notice that the verb sit or any of its forms affects only the person performing the action. The verb set carries the action from the person doing it to the object on which the action is performed. Copy the following sentences, filling the vacant spaces with the verb sit or set or some form of the verb. 1. At evening when the lamp is lit, Around the fire my parents ——; They at home and talk and sing, And do not play at anything. 2. The night clouds had lowered And the sentinel stars — their watch in the sky. 3. Little white Lily 7. Mary the bird-cage on the table. 8. The little children 9. I on the floor to play. my watch by observatory time. 10. Have you — here long? 11. Still the school-house by the road. 1. The sun rises early in the summer. 2. Yesterday I rose when the sun did. 3. Have you ever risen with the sun? Present Past raise raised Complete 1. It is so warm that I must raise the window. 2. Ralph raised a heavy iron bar from the floor. 3. What is the heaviest weight that you have raised? Notice that the verb rise affects only the doer of the action, but the verb raise affects both the doer and the person or object which receives the action. Copy the following sentences, filling the spaces with a form of the verb rise or the verb raise. 10. The sun that brief December day cheerless over hills of gray. 190 USING TEACH AND LEARN 1. A serious illness made Helen Keller blind, deaf, and dumb when she was only nineteen months old. 2. She could not learn. Her parents did not know how to teach her. 3. When she was almost seven years old, Miss Sullivan began to teach her. 4. She became very eager to learn. |