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State the difference.

Express now our three other sentences in

a similar manner.

Children. The child plays.

The children play.

The fly sips.

The flies sip.

The parrot talks.

The parrots talk.

Mother. I shall now say something of one

object, and you are to express it of many.

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What am I, and what are you to do?

The pane is of glass.

Children. The panes are of glass.

Mother. The door is of wood.
Children. The doors are of wood.
Mother. The tree has leaves.
Children. The trees have leaves.
Mother. The star is brilliant.
Children. The stars are brilliant.
Mother. Does the boy read?
Do the boys read?

In what are these two sentences alike?
Children. They both express a question.
Mother. In what do they differ?

Children. The first sentence contains a question concerning one boy only, and the second concerning more than one, or perhaps many.

Mother. The bird sings.

Turn this into a question.
Children. Does the bird sing?
Do the birds sing?

Mother. The dog barks.

Children. Does the dog bark?

Mother.

Do the dogs bark?

In what are these sentences alike,

and in what do they differ?

Now change our three other sentences into questions, and express them first in the singular, then in the plural number. The pane is of glass.

Change this sentence into two questions? Children. Is the pane of glass?

Are the panes of glass?

Mother. The door is of wood.
Children. Is the door of wood?

Are the doors of wood?

Mother. The tree has leaves.
Children. Has the tree leaves?

Have the trees leaves?

Mother. Boy, read!

Boys, read!

In what are these two sentences alike? Children. They both contain an address, Mother. Wherein do they differ?

Children. In the first sentence only one boy, but in the second several boys are addressed. Mother. The bird sings.

Change this into an address. Children. Bird, sing!

Birds, sing!

Mother. Try now to manage other sentences

in the same manner.

The child is quiet.

Form of this sentence two addresses.

Children. Child, be quiet!

Children, be quiet, &c.

Mother. Boy, do you read?

Boys, do you read?

In what are these two sentences alike? Children. They both contain an address and a question.

Mother. In what do they differ?

Children. In the first sentence one boy only is addressed and questioned, in the second more than one.

Mother. The bird sings.

Form this into an address and a question, in the singular and in the plural number.

Children. Bird, do you sing?

Birds, do you sing?

Mother. Turn our other sentences into ad

dresses and questions, and express them in the singular and plural.

Each of the six sentences we have hitherto spoken in the affirmative, may be expressed in two different ways, but how? Children. They may be expressed, speaking either of one or of several objects, either in the singular or in the plural number.

Mother. Can they be expressed in two different ways in the affirmative order only?

Children. They can also be expressed in two different ways, when forming a question, an address, or an address joined to a question.

Mother. How many times, therefore, can you express each sentence in two different ways? Children. Four times.

Mother. How many different sentences can you then form of each single sentence we have spoken?

Children. Eight different sentences.

Mother. And how many single sentences did we speak ?

Children. Six.

Mother. Thus we are able to form six times eight different sentences.

How many are they when added together? Shall we now try once more to pronounce them all together?

You will now find it easy, and you will be
pleased to find that you can form so
many sentences and speak so correctly.
To make it more easy to you, I shall go
through the first sentence myself.
The boy reads.

The boys read.

Does the boy read?

Do the boys read?

Boy, read!

Boys, read!

Boy, do you read?

Boys, do you read?

Children repeat.

Mother. How many sentences are we to form of each single sentence?

Are you sure that I have spoken eight sentences?

Proceed now in the same manner with the remaining eight sentences.

The children of the second class now form in the same manner of each of the remaining five sentences, eight different sentences, which the children of the first class repeat.

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