And privilege of government—
Powers that the fifty give.
If fifty men are really fools—
And five have all the brains—
The five must rule as now we find;
But if the fifty have the mind—
Why don't they take the reins?
Exercise 5
Select all the nouns in the following. Write their singular, plural and possessive forms. Decide whether they are abstract or concrete, common or proper or collective, masculine, feminine or neuter.
Brother!
Whoever you are, wherever you are on all the earth, I greet you.
I extend to you my right hand.
I make you a pledge.
Here is my pledge to you:—
I refuse to kill your father. I refuse to slay your mother's son. I refuse to plunge a bayonet into the breast of your sister's brother. I refuse to slaughter your sweetheart's lover. I refuse to murder your wife's husband. I refuse to butcher your little child's father. I refuse to wet the earth with blood and blind kind eyes with tears. I refuse to assassinate you and then hide my stained fists in the folds of any flag.
Will you thus pledge me and pledge all the members of our working class?—Kirkpatrick.
SPELLING
LESSON 4
Some of our consonants also have more than one sound. We have also certain combinations of consonants which represent one sound. This combination of two letters to represent one sound is called a digraph, as gh, in cough, ch in church. A digraph may either be a combination of two consonants or of two vowels or of a vowel and a consonant. The following table contains the consonants which have more than one sound:
c—k as in cat
c—s as in vice
g—j as in ginger
g—hard as in go
s—sh as in sure
s—zh as in usual
s—soft as in also
s—z as in does
x—soft as in extra
x—gz as in exist
The following table gives the digraphs most commonly used:
ng—as in ring, tongue
ch—as in church and much
ch—k as in chasm
ch—sh as in chagrin
th—as in then, those
th—as in thin and worth
ce—sh as in ocean
ci—sh as in special
dg—j as in edge
gh—f as in rough
ph—f as in sylph
qu—kw as in quart
qu—k as in conquer
sh—as in shall
si—sh as in tension
si—zh as in vision
ti—sh as in motion
The use of these digraphs gives us a number of additional sounds. Notice the use of the consonants which have more than one sound and also the digraphs in the spelling lesson for the week. Mark the consonants and digraphs.
Monday
Commence
Certain
General
Gradual