CHAPTER VI 



ORAL AND WRITTEN LANGUAGE WITH GRAMMAR 

 GRADES 



FIFTH YEAR GRADE 



After a brief but careful review of the work of the pre- 

 ceding years in punctuation, the children are held respon- 

 sible for what they have learned. They 

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must use what they have been taught, the 



teacher does not stand ready to put in whatever is forgotten 

 by the child. Several new rules for the comma are now 

 demanded by longer and more involved sentences, some 

 of which also call for one or two of the simpler uses of the 

 semicolon; even the colon is needed by a few pupils. 

 These should all be given as needed, accompanied always 

 by an abundance of illustrative drill. Although but few 

 pupils are writing sentences requiring semicolons and colons, 

 the needed rules for their use should be given to avoid 

 incorrect punctuation by those few ; other writers may also 

 be led into strengthening their sentence structures in order 

 to employ the new marks after their uses have been ex- 

 plained. Wrong ideas of the relation between the parts of 

 a sentence may be imbibed if these rules are not given. It 

 is still necessary to drill on the use of quotation marks, the 

 punctuation of quotations, and the possessives of nouns in 

 both singular and plural. Their mastery is not easy, and, 

 although they have been in use since the first grade, new 

 conditions spring up, some of which seem stranger to the 



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