AN ELEMENTARY ENGLISH GRAMMAR, CONSISTING OF ONE HUNDRED PRACTICAL LESSONS CAREFULLY GRADED AND ADAPTED TO THE CLASS-ROOM. BY ALONZO REED, A.M., FORMERLY INSTRUCTOR IN ENGLISH GRAMMAR IN THE POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, BROOKLYN AND BRAINERD KELLOGG, LL.D., PROFESSOR OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE IN THE REVISED EDITION, 1901. NEW YORK: MAYNARD, MERRILL, & CO., PUBLISHERS. NOTE. A word omitted or understood may be indicated the following sign: x. Should it be deemed necessary to distinguish the l of modifiers, the simple figures 1, 2, 3 seem to ans every purpose. Thus, adjective modifiers may be dicated as below by (1), adverbial modifiers by (2), objective modifiers by (3). When the modifying words are themselves modifi the simplest plan of diagramming is to place the modi to the right of the modified word and draw a short p pendicular line between them. This diagram is b readily and rapidly made. See the application in following sentences: fled rapidly. more | still was beaten. cruelly | very In the diagramming of phrases, whether infinitiv prepositional, or participial, the same principles shou be followed as in the diagramming of single words. See the following modified subjects: Bushels of apples efforts PRINCIPLES OF ANALYSIS. 7 The following modified subjects and predicates will be equally clear: 1. The snow on the hillside melted. 2. The snow lay on the hillside. 3. The leaves of the trees have fallen into the ditch. 4. The leaves have fallen from the trees into the ditch. 5. The steeples of the village pierced through the dense fog. 6. The finest trout in the lake are generally caught in the deepest water. In sentences having compound subjects or compound predicates the words are usually connected by a conjunction. A simple plan of indicating the compound element is that of connecting them by oblique lines, as indicated on next page. Conjunctions and other words used simply as connectives or independently may be indicated by placing a dotted line beneath, as in the following sentences: 1. William and Mary reigned in England. 2. John and his brother came on a visit to their aunt. |