Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1895 — A Study in Grammar. [ARTICLE]

A Study in Grammar.

A teacher in one of the lower grades of a city school was endeavoring to impress upon her puplls'the fact that a plural subject takes a verb in the plural. “ Remember this,” she said ;J“girls are, boys are; a girl is, a boy is. Now, do you understand it?” Every hand in the room was raised in assent. “Well, then,” continued the teacher, “who can give me a sentence with girls—plural, remember?’’ This time only one hand was raised, and that belonged to a pretty little miss. “Please, ma’am,” she said, with all the assurance of a primitive reasoning, “I can give a sentence. ‘Girls, are my hat on straight?’ ” A chain of small daisies between two flexible gold bands composes a new bracelet of an admired style.