Well is the adverb corresponding to the adjective good. Which of the following sentences is correct and why?

John sure can drive a car good.
John surely can drive a car well.

Adjectives in the Predicate. We have learned that predicates either express action of the noun or they describe the noun. The predicate that describes the subject is made up of a verb that links the subject with the adjective, noun, or pronoun that refers to the subject.

The hill is high and steep.

My mother is unselfish.

She looks tired.

Arithmetic seems hard for John.

The boys in this neighborhood are quarrelsome.

In these sentences the italicized words are adjectives used in the predicate.

Use this or that, not these or those, to modify kind, variety, sort, and such words.

EXERCISE

Answer the following questions with complete sentences, using Give your answers aloud.

this or that.

PICTURE STUDY

EARLY SPRING

Alexander H. Wyant (1836-1892)

An Ohio boy who wished very much to draw the people and scenes around him had no teacher. He lived far away from centers of art; but so greatly did he desire to become an artist that he taught himself till he was twenty years old. Then he went to New York and later to Europe, where he saw what great masters had done. Although Wyant's first work was portraits, he soon turned from people to nature, and made a great name for himself as a landscape artist. George Inness, a great American landscape painter, and Turner and Constable were the masters from whom he drew his inspiration.

The picture, Early Spring, is a good example of Wyant's pictures. He looked at nature tenderly, and saw the soft shadows, the tremulous leaves, the delicate atmosphere, which he represents on canvas.

Perhaps no American painter is more popular than Wyant. All the great galleries of America have some of his canvases. Early Spring is in the Art Museum of Worcester, Mass. Seven of his pictures hang in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The boy who struggled through difficulties in his early years became one of America's best known and most admired artists.

IX. CLAUSES AND COMPLEX SENTENCES

Subordinate Clauses. In reading the following groups of words you feel unsatisfied with each, do you not? No one of them makes a complete statement. And yet, if you examine them you will see that each group contains a subject and a predicate. What is the matter, then? Why are they not complete sentences? What is needed to make each a complete sentence? Supply what is necessary to complete the meaning of each group of words.

When you come home

While we were in the country

After the rain is over

Because it is too cold

Whom I invited

Which you gave me
Where the strawberries grow
That was run over

These groups of words are known as subordinate clauses. They are clauses because each group contains a subject and a predicate; and they are subordinate because they are not complete in themselves. In the army a captain is subordinate to a colonel; he is below the colonel in rank, and must take orders from the colonel. In the same way a subordinate clause is below a principal clause in rank. The part of the sentence that gives orders to the subordinate clause is the principal clause. In the sentence "When you come home I shall be delighted to see you," I shall be delighted to see you is the main idea, and therefore forms the principal clause, to which the clause when you come home is subordinated.

EXERCISES

A. In the following sentences select the principal clauses and the subordinate clauses:

1. We were the first who ever burst

Into that silent sea.

2. If a well-trained bloodhound is brought to the scene of a crime within a short time after it was committed, he will unfailingly run down the criminal.

3. Milk often travels thirty-six hours before it is delivered to the

consumer.

4. If your pumps slip at the heel, just put a strip of adhesive tape
across the back to make them stay on.

5. He found his cap where he had tossed it the night before.
6. When a cafeteria is wisely located and well run, it is a profitable

business.

7. He politely showed the stranger where he could find a good

hotel.

8. When I wrote my advertisement I did not stint myself for space. 9. I decided to go to high school because I needed an education. 10. I found him only after I had walked all over town.

II. Columbus was the first man who ever sailed over the Atlantic. 12. It is hard to give up a dog you have reared.

B. Make a list of the words that introduce the subordinate clauses given above.

Of what use is a subordinate clause? Let us see. In the following sentences there are no subordinate clauses:

I wrote my advertisements. I did not stint myself for space.
I decided to go to high school. I needed an education.

I found him. I had walked all over town.

He found his cap. He had tossed it there the night before.

Do these sentences fully express the thoughts of the writer?