What are the subject and the predicate of this added sentence? _By a
piercing shriek of delight_ does what? Of what use are the phrases _at
first_ and _toward the brook_ in sentence 2? What group of words is joined
to _looked_ to tell on what occasion or how often? Find in this group a
subject, a predicate, and an object complement. What connects this group to
_looked_? What two sentences does _but_ here bring together? Does the
semicolon show that this connection is close? Point out what you think to
be the leading subject and the leading verb after _but_. _By some exquisite
ferns_ is joined to what? What group of words goes with _was diverted_ to
tell when? Find in this group a subject, a predicate, and an attribute
complement. Point out in the first part of 3 the leading subject and its
verb. What does _suddenly_ go with? What does _of shrieks_ modify?
_However_ is loosely thrown in to carry the attention back to what goes
before. Notice the commas. Answer the question made by putting _what_ after
_announced_. In this group of words used as object complement can you find
a subject, a predicate, and a complement? What two sentences does _and_
here bring together? Point out the subject, the predicate, and the
complement in the second of these. _Across a large fern_ is joined like an
adverb to what? _In a great deal of agony_ modifies what? Find a compound
predicate in 4. What phrase is joined to _was imbedded_ to tell where? The
group of words _as deeply as Toddie was (imbedded)_ is joined to what? Find
in 5 a compound predicate made up of three verbs, one of which has an
object complement.

+To the Teacher+.--See suggestions with the preceding selection. If our
exercises on the second paragraph above are found too hard, the compound
and complex sentences may be broken up into single statements.

We have indicated elsewhere that this sentence work may follow Lesson 40.