FIRST REVIEW AND SUMMARY REVIEW I. 1. Write a statement about a boy. 2. Write a statement about a dog. 3. Write a statement about a book. 4. Write a statement about a box. 5. Write a statement about a top. II. 1. Ask a question about a girl. 2. Ask a question about a cat. 3. Ask a question about a pencil. pencil. 4. Ask a question about a desk. 5. Ask a question about an apple. III. Write statements in answer to each of these questions: 1. What is a cat? 2. What is a rose? 3. What day is to-day? 4. What is your name? 5. What is your father's name? IV. Place the proper mark after each of the following sentences: 1. John left the book on the table 2. Did you see it 3. Mary took it away 4. Where did she put it 5. I do not know 6. I think it is on the shelf. SUMMARY A something. A statement is a sentence used to tell question is a sentence used to ask something. of every sentence should begin with a capital. of every line of poetry should begin with a capital. A period should be placed after every statement. The first word A question mark should be placed after every question. 5 10 15 20 THREE COMPANIONS WE go on our walk together— Dog is a gentleman brave; He'd kneel to her like a slave; As dog and gentleman can. I'd rather be a kind doggie, I think, than a cruel man. - DINAH MULOCK CRAIK. com pan'ions, cour'age, kneel, gen'tle man. What kind of a day does the fifth line tell about? Read the line that tells about a cloudy day. How do you know that the companions will go out in any kind of weather? Read the line that tells that the dog would wait upon the baby. 21 THE FOX AND THE CAT A Fox was boasting to a Cat of its clever tricks for escaping its enemies. "I have a whole bag of tricks," he said, "which contains a hundred ways of escaping my enemies." 5 "I have only one," said the Cat; "but I can generally manage with that." Just at that moment they heard the cry of a pack of hounds coming toward them, and the Cat scampered up a tree and hid herself in the 10 boughs. "This is my plan," said the Cat. you going to do?" "What are The Fox thought first of one way, then of another; and while he was thinking the hounds 15 came nearer and nearer, and the Fox was caught by the hounds and soon killed by the hunts men. Miss Puss, who had been looking on, said, "Better one safe way than a hundred on which 20 you cannot reckon." -Esop's Fables. boast, to brag, to talk big; en'e mies, those who would do harm to one; bough, a branch of a tree. The cat ran very fast. The hound could run as fast. A tree stood near. The cat jumped. The trick saved the cat. Write these sentences, but change cat, hound, tree, and trick so that they will mean more than one. |