First Grammar Lessons: Part I, Lesson VII

First Grammar Lessons: Part I, Lesson VII

Lesson VII

The table is round.
The wall is high.
The curtain is red.

We speak of the table. We say about it that it is round.

‘Table’ is the subject. ‘Is round’ is the predicate. ‘Round’ is an adjective, therefore it must belong to a noun. What is round? The table. So ‘round’ belongs to the noun ‘table.’

All these adjectives, though they are away from their nouns, and in the predicate, belong to the nouns all the same.

Make six sentences about the sofa with ‘is’ and an adjective:

The sofa is large.
The sofa is green.
The sofa is wide.
The sofa is soft.
The sofa is new.
The sofa is handsome.

We might make these into one sentence by turning the six predicates into one.

The sofa is _____ now say the adjectives all one after the other, but put and between the two last.

When we write several sentences turned into one in this way, we put and between the last two adjectives, and a comma after each of them, except the one before the and.

The sofa is large, green, wide, soft, new and handsome.

To be learnt.

Adjectives must always belong to nouns.

Exercise VII

1. Make sentences with ‘is’ and an adjective for each predicate, about twenty things in the room:

The window is high.

2. Make six sentences with ‘is’ and an adjective for the predicate, about ‘ink,’ six about ‘the pen,’ etc.

3. Turn each of these sixes into one—remembering to put and between the two last adjectives and a comma after each of the others.