may go into the fields or down the lane, but don't go into Mr. McGregor's garden."

3. Indeed I was seeking thee, Flathead, but each time we meet thou art longer and broader by the length of my arm.

4. Come, Lillie, it is time to go to bed.

5. Sweet, sweet home! there's no place like home.

6. Why, Father, you are rather old to play cat's cradle.

7.

Sail on, sail on, O ship of State!

Sail on, O Union strong and great!

8. Sir, I humbly beg your pardon.

9. I understand, noble lord, that you have lost two of your men. 10. Jefferson, I think I will go down into the kitchen and bake a pie.

11. A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!

12. There is none like thee in the jungle, wise, old, strong, and most beautiful Kaa.

13. Our price, your royal highness, is three shillings.

14. Grand old outlaw, hero of a thousand lawless raids, in a few minutes you will be but a great load of carrion.

15.

Brood, kind creature, you need not fear

Thieves and robbers while I am here.

16. Catch me, cowardly knaves, if you can.

17. The stately homes of England! how beautiful they stand ! 18. O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells.

XIV. IMPERATIVE SENTENCES

48. Besides declarative and interrogative sentences there is another kind of sentence used when we speak directly to a person for the purpose of telling him what to do; as, "Run into the garden, and fetch me the largest pumpkin you can find." This is called an imperative sentence.

49. The imperative sentence is often used in giving orders, commands, or directions, but it is used also in giving advice, and in making requests or entreaties; as,

Fling away' ambition.

Kindly reply by return mail.
Give us this day our daily bread.

50. Usually only the predicate of an imperative sentence is expressed, and so the first word of such a sentence is likely to be a verb. The subject is the pronoun you, thou, or ye, signifying the person or persons addressed. It is customary to omit this pronoun, and we say that the subject is "understood." Occasionally, however, it is expressed in familiar conversation; as, "You go away." Sometimes, too, in solemn commands the pronoun thou or ye is expressed; as, "Go and do thou likewise." "Keep ye the law."

Note that the verb in an imperative sentence commands rather than asserts.

An imperative sentence is frequently preceded by a term of address, but this must not be mistaken for the subject; as, "Father, hear our prayer."

The subject of an imperative sentence is the pronoun you, thou, or ye. This pronoun is usually omitted.

Exercise. Tell what the following imperative sentences denote. Select the predicate verbs, and the subjects whenever they are expressed. Select also the terms of address.

1. Open everything, go everywhere except to this little room. 2. Come and hold this skein of yarn for me.

3. Go and wash Kala Nag, and attend to his ears, and see that there are no thorns in his feet.

4. Don't count your chickens before they are hatched.

5. Rouse to some high and holy work of love.

6. Don't you show your face here with a pocket on you. If your heavy pants have any in 'em, rip 'em out.

Give freely and receive, but take from none

By greed, or force, or fraud, what is his own.

8. Learn to box, to ride, to pull an oar, and to swim.

9. Polly dear, say good morning to Mrs. Chatterton, and then run away.

10. Do the work first which is next at hand.

12. O Lord of Hosts, provide a champion for thy people. O brave marsh Mary-buds, rich and yellow,

13.

14.

15.

Give me your money to hold.

O Columbine, open your folded wrapper
Where two twin turtledoves dwell.

O Cuckoopint, toll me the purple clapper
That hangs in your clear, green bell.

Account for the commas in sentences 1, 3, 8, 9, and 11.

XV. INTERJECTIONS

51. There are certain words like oh, alas, pshaw, ugh, that are used to express strong feeling, joy, surprise, pain, disgust, anger, etc. These words are called interjections. An interjection is a part of speech.

52. Interjections are no part of the subject or the predicate of a sentence; hence, like terms of address, they are said to be independent. They are set off from the rest of the sentence by some mark of punctuation, usually an exclamation point, sometimes only a comma.

53. We may use a noun or a verb in such a way that it becomes an interjection; as, "Goodness! what a fright you gave me ! "Hurrah! the lake is frozen over!" Such a verb as hark is often used as an interjection, not to express sudden feeling so much as to arrest attention; as, "Hark! hark! the dogs do bark."

54. The interjection O is often used before a term of address; as, "O Lord, how manifold are thy works!"

Summary. An interjection is a word used to express sudden or strong feeling.

Exercise. Select all the interjections in the following sentences, and tell what each one is used for:

1. Boom! Boom!-two of the guns had gone off together. 2. Alas! Amanda, by mistake, had waked up the little boys an hour too early.

3. Bah! men are blood brothers of the monkey people.

4. Hallelujah! in one day more we shall be sitting in the sunshine on our own doorstep.

6. Ping! ping! ping! went the rifles; and Boom! boom! boom! answered the waves.

7. Aha! the world is iron in these days.

8. Alas! it was the head of old Silverspot.

9. Scrooge said, "Pooh! Pooh!" and closed the door.

10. Hark! hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings.

11. Alack-a-day! travelers encounter all the unusual bits of weather.

12. Hey! Willie Winkie, are you coming then?

13. O comrades, if we must fight, let us fight for ourselves.

14. Hush the winds roar hoarse and deep.

15. Lo, the star which they saw in the east went before them till it came and stood over where the young child was.

16. Piff! the packet landed exactly as it was intended, on the corn-husk mat in front of the screen door.

17. Oh, London is a man's town.

XVI. EXCLAMATORY SENTENCES

55. We have found that sentences are made to state, or to ask, or to command, and hence are classified as declarative, interrogative, and imperative.

There is a fourth class of sentence which resembles an interjection, being used to express sudden or strong feeling; as, "How calm and lovely the river was!" "What a pity it is!" These are called exclamatory sentences. They are always followed by an exclamation point.

56. Such sentences as those just quoted, which begin with how or what, are exclamatory in form as well as in sense, and are therefore sometimes called pure exclamatory sentences. They are always in the transposed order. Some sentences, however, are exclamatory only in sense. They are in the natural order, and when printed, could not be distinguished from declarative or imperative sentences if it were not for the exclamation point, which indicates that they were spoken with strong feeling; as, "Now you may see that noblest of all ocean sights for beauty, a full-rigged ship under sail!" "Helen Maria! leave the room this moment!

Summary. - An exclamatory sentence is one that expresses sudden or strong feeling.

Exercise. - Tell why each of these sentences is exclamatory. Rearrange in the natural order those which are transposed. Divide each of them into subject and predicate. Select the simple subject and the simple predicate.

1. How soundly he sleeps! From what a depth he draws that easy breath!

2. What tales he had told that day!

3. How doubly delicious things tasted in the clear, spicy air of the woods!

4. How keen a scent those children had for apples in the cellar ! 5. Oh, how sweet the water was! How it soothed the tender spots under her weary wings! How it cooled her ears and her tired eyelids!

6. With what a glory comes and goes the year!

7. What a racket those rusty cannon had made in the heyday of their unchastened youth! What stories they might tell now if their puffy, metallic lips could only speak!

8. Burn the hut over their heads!

9. Ugh! may the red mange destroy the dogs of this village!

10. Talk of the curiosity of women!

11. So blessedly evanescent is the memory of seasickness!

12. Hark! how the music leaps out from his throat!