SECOND GENERAL EXERCISE Copy both sections (the first consists of fairly familiar terms, the second of less familiar terms) of each of the following word-groups.

Add to each word-group as many cognate words as you can (1) think of for yourself, (2) find in the dictionary by looking under the key-syllable.

Fill the blanks in the sentences after each word-group with terms chosen from the first section of words in that group.

Nevertheless, the mass of quotations, most of them with exact references, collected by him, and printed under the word-groups which they illustrated, was a service never to be undervalued or forgotten, and his work, 'A New Dictionary of the English Language ...

Some predicates may consist of a single word or word-group, able in itself to complete a sentence:

The word-groups which are used as modifiers are the phrase and the clause.

Uses of Verbs.+A verb is the word or word-group that makes an assertion or statement, and it is therefore the most important part of the whole sentence.