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"New National Fourth Reader"

--Name the _emphatic words_ in the last
paragraph of the lesson, and mark the _inflections_.
In determining upon the _emphasis_ to be given to the words of a
sentence, the only guide we have to follow is the _meaning_. We must
ask ourselves, "Which, words are of special importance to the meaning?"

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Language Lesson.--Change each of the sentences given below to
_statements_, expressing as nearly as possible the same meaning.
"What troubles you to-day?"
"Tell me at once what the matter is!"
"Let us shout for Meccatina, and its mountains bare and brown!"
Model.--"What is your name?" changed to the form of a _statement_,
becomes--"I wish you to tell me your name."
Let pupils write four _questions_, and then change them to
_statements_, expressing as nearly as possible the same meaning.

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LESSON LXXV.

plun'dered, _stripped of their goods by force_.
surge, _a rolling swell of water; billows_.
verge, _extreme side or edge_.
sheer, _straight up and down_.
frag'ments, _pieces; small portions_.


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