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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...20. Show that a clause or phrase may be used as an adjective. 21. How may an adjective be used? SYNOPSIS FOR REVIEW. Adjective. r Descriptive, Classes Numeral, Demonstrative, r Positive degree, Modification.. Comparison. I Comparative degree. t Attributive, Uses 1 Predicate, » Interrogative. r Positive degre Comparative c Superlative degree. t Attributive, Predicate, I Objective complement. CHAPTER XII. Classes of Verbs. 1. Frank caught a fish. 4. Fred ran against a tree. 2. She broke her needle. 5. Mary skates on the river. 3. He killed a butterfly. In each of these sentences what word asserts action? In sentences 1, 2, and 3, what receives the action? Is there any preposition before this word? Do we require the name of the objects, fish, needle, butterfly, to complete the meaning of the verbs, caught, broke, killed? We do; hence we say that some verbs represent the action as terminating directly upon some object. In sentences 4 and 5, what word receives the action? Does this action pass over from the subject to the object directly, or by the aid of a preposition? Can you say Fred ran a tree, or Mary skates the river? No; Fred ran against the tree, and Mary skates on the river. Hence, some verbs do not represent the action as terminating directly upon an object. This difference of meaning separates verbs into two principal classes:--1. Transitive verbs. 2. Intransitive verbs. A transitive verb is one which expresses an action that terminates directly on some object. An intransitive verb is one which does not require an object to complete its meaning. Supply objects to the following transitive verbs:--9. The king levied. 10. The physician prescribes. 11. Spring revives. 12. The weary laborer reached 13. Good men comfort. 14. Good kings love their. 15. ...
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