In the speech you can see a few words suggesting movement. For example, in the sentence ‘The sap which courses through the trees carries the memories of the red man’ the word ‘course’ means ‘flow’ or‘move rapidly’.

II. Pick out from the speech other words that denote movement. If necessary, refer to a dictionary and use them in your own sentences.

• What is the relationship of the above underlined parts with the first part of the sentences?
• What type of word do you see at the beginning of the underlined part?
• Which is the most important word in it?

You have learnt earlier that a sentence contains the subject and the predicate. The underlined parts of the sentences given above are predicates. The important word in a predicate is the verb.

As you can see, each of these predicates has at least one verb (sentences 1 and 2). In the second sentence ‘must’ is the helping (auxiliary) verb and ‘teach’ is the main verb.

Look at the river. It has very little water in it. Once it was flowing well. Now it is dying. Can’t you hear the cries of the dying river? The water in it is polluted. Do you get its stink? You cannot drink it. You cannot give this water even to animals. Animals will not go near it. We must make the river live forever. We must make the river our own companion.