Exercise 6. Development

Which of the following groups of words are declarative sentences?

Answer in regard to each sentence (1) What is the subject of thought? (2) What word or group of words represents it? (3) What sort of attribute (quality, condition, action, class, place, or material) is asserted? (4) What word or group of words represents this attribute? (5) What word or group of words asserts? (6) Are any attributes assumed of the subject of thought?

1. The small brook is rapid.

2. The boys skating on the pond are cold.

3. A beautiful red bird singing in the cage.

4. This large, heavy ring is iron.

5. That stately tree is a pine.

6. This old woman was always patient.

7. Mary has been sick.

8. The children playing.

9. The children played.

10. The president of the United States is energetic.

11. The president of the United States in 1862 was sympathetic.

12. In the cage sang a beautiful bird.

13. Being frightened, the child ran away.

14. Wheat being the best crop in our country.

15. To-morrow I shall be in Chicago.

16. Excited people running up and down the street.

17. Her anger was bitter.

18. She has been angry.

19. Turning toward the hearth, Silas Marner sat down.

20. This book is an arithmetic.

21. Mrs. Brown's love for her friends was unselfish.