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Title: Oral and written English
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Potter, Milton Chase, 1873- Jeschke, Harry Jewett, 1873- Gillet, Harry O. (Harry Orrin), b. 1879
Subjects: English language
Publisher: Boston : Ginn
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do you make of the picture on the oppositepage ? What explains all this stir and bustle ? Whatis happening? What is the center of interest in it all?Does it seem as if these happy, laughing children wereeager to keep up with the smiling man ? Does he looklike a pleasant man, full of fun and jokes ? Oral Exercise. Invent some short story that will ex-plain this exciting scene, and give your story a title thatwill fit the picture. Think your story through to the endbefore telling it. The more interesting you can make it,the more the class will enjoy it.° Correction Exercise. Having told your story, listen tothose told by your classmates and decide in what respectsyour own could have been more interesting. Written Exercise. Perhaps you can now invent anentirely different story. Try to invent one that the classwill enjoy hearing you read aloud. Perhaps you willimagine that you are the smiling man or one of thechildren in the picture. Write it as well as you canwithout making it too long.
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Aiicr Uic painung by Kaulbiich 294 ORAL AND WRITTEN ENGLISH 196. Correct Usage — Verb Forms Some verbs are correctly used after Jiave, has, andhad, while others may not be used with these words. Oral Exercise, i. Read the following sentences aloud,speaking the words distinctly. Observe, as you read,which verbs are used with have, has, and had, and whichare used alone. 1. The janitor rang- the bell. Has he nmg the bell again ? 2. The children dt-ank water. They Jiad not dnink before. 3. The pupils sang old songs. They hadsnng them last year. 4. The boy tore his coat. But boys have always torfi their coats. 5. He ivore a new hat. He had zvom out his old one. 6. I sa%v what he did. I Jiave seen what he Jias done. 7. The girls ran, as they Jiad never run in their lives. 8. At last they came to the river. We had already come to it. 9. We ate our lunch there. We have eaten there often. 10. I lurote home about it. I have written many lettersabout it. 2. Use the verb forms above in sentence

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