(e) Adverbial modifier (introduced by a Conjunctive Adverb or by a Subordinating Conjunction), (ƒ) Object of a Preposition. 520. From an examination of the above table, it is seen that the Subject, the Object, the Attribute, an Adjective modifier, and an Adverbial modifier may each be either a word element, a phrase element, or a clause element. Exercise 225. Bring in original sentences illustrating each of the kinds of elements mentioned in the table in par. 519. Miscellaneous Complex Sentences for Analysis. While leanest beasts in pastures feed, The fattest ox the first must bleed. He that loseth his conscience has nothing left that is worth keeping. My advice is that you endeavor to be honestly rich or contentedly poor. The most convenient habit you can acquire is that of letting your habits sit loose upon you. Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders generally discover everybody's face but their own. He that is giddy thinks the world turns round. The vile strength he wields For earth's destruction, thou dost all despise. Trifles discover the character more than actions of importance. Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. This is the cat that caught the rat that ate the malt that lay in the house that Jack built. It is not growing like a tree In bulk doth make man better be. Though good things answer many good intents, Crosses do still bring forth the best events. When the infant begins to walk, it thinks it lives in strange times. This morning, like the spirit of a youth That means to be of note, begins betimes. The men Whom nature's work can charm, with God himself It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient. It was the winter wild When the heaven-born Child All meanly wrapp'd in the rude manger lies. I knew 'twas I, for many do call me fool. The truth you speak doth lack some gentleness, Soon as the evening shades prevail The moon takes up the wondrous tale. Lowliness is young ambition's ladder To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam. Laziness travels so slowly that Poverty soon overtakes him. I stood on the bridge at midnight, As the clocks were striking the hour. The boy stood on the burning deck A time there was, ere England's griefs began, That which is a competency for one man is not enough for another. They that govern most make least noise. He who ascends to mountain-tops shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapped in clouds and snow, Had I but died an hour before this chance I had lived a blessèd time. I love my pretty home, My little garden gay, Where all things look so bright This gladsome first of May. Those who plan some evil From their sin restrain. In peace there's nothing so becomes a man I feared to view my native spot Where one who loved it now was not. Clouds that love through air to hasten, 'Tis strange the miser should his cares employ Half the ill we do was done Regions Cæsar never knew Thy posterity shall sway. You talk of wondrous things you see. With patience I can bear A loss I ne'er can know. They set, as sets the morning star, which goes Not down behind the darkened west. Now 'tis little joy To know I'm further off from heaven Than when I was a boy. Who knows not that truth is strong next to the Almighty { Go search it there where to be born and die Of rich and poor make all the history. Hadst thou sprung In deserts where no men abide Thou must have uncommended died. Well I know How the bitter wind doth blow. Do whate'er you have to do COMPOUND SENTENCES. 521. Sentences made up of two or more Simple or Complex sentences connected by Coördinating Conjunctions are called Compound Sentences. 522. The members of a Compound Sentence sometimes follow one another without expressed Conjunctions; as, The way was long, the wind was cold, The minstrel was infirm and old. We have here three coördinate clauses: 1. The way was long. 2. The wind was cold. 3. The minstrel was infirm and old. 523. The Clauses of a Compound Sentence are usually joined by expressed Conjunctions; as, They had been friends in youth, But whispering tongues can poison truth, And life is thorny and youth is vain. Here we have five coördinate clauses joined by Conjunctions. A Subordinate Clause is dependent upon some other part of a Complex Sentence; Coördinate Clauses are quite independent of each other. 524. In analyzing Compound Sentences treat each Coördinate Clause as though it stood alone. 525. In analyzing a Compound Sentence which contains nor or neither and nor, it may be necessary to put in an Adverb of negation. The Compound Sentence "The boy was not clever, nor was he good" may be separated into 1. The boy was not clever. Exercise 226. Analyze the following sentences. Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it. The stream will not flow and the hill will not rise We lay beneath a spreading oak, And from the turf a fountain broke The waves beside them danced, but they The rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the rose. The good south wind still blew behind, But no sweet bird did follow, Nor any day for food or play Came to the mariner's hollo. 526. A Compound Sentence may be made up not only of Coördinate Simple Clauses, but of Coördinate Complex Clauses; as, "I love my brother because he is kind, and I admire him because he is clever;" or of a Simple and a Complex Clause; as, "I speak what I do know, and I lie not." 527. Note that Subordinate Clauses may also be compounded; as, “We saw your sister when we were going and when we were coming back." We have here two Subordinate Clauses which are Coördinate; together they may be regarded as a Compound Subordinate Clause. The whole sentence is a Complex Sentence, having but one principal assertion, we saw. Exercise 227. Analyze the following sentences. a. Charity creates much of the misery it relieves, but does not relieve all the misery it creates. |