EXERCISE.

Select the verbs of incomplete predication, and state the word or words

that complete the predication:—

1. This water is warm.

2. He became a sailor.

3. My brother studies in the evening.

4. This man has been sick for a month.

5. Some murmur when their sky is clear.—_French._

6. A soft answer turneth away wrath.—_Bible._

7. An idler is a watch that wants both hands.—_Cowper._

8. Sweet was the sound, when oft, at evening’s close,

Up yonder hill the village murmur rose.—_Goldsmith._

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=LESSON XXXVI.=

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