are all willing shall be covered 13. It is better for us to go. 14. We pleased to have you remain. 15. America was dis- 3. Write objective elements to limit the transitive verbs in the following: 12. The runaway horse in the garden. 14. Farmers plant 16. Do you in the spring-time. 15. Mother thinks understand -? 17. Can you explain ? Connectives. The Connecting parts of sentences are 1. Relative Pronouns; as, "He who steals my purse, steals trash." 2. Conjunctions; as, "Men should not talk to please themselves, but those who hear them." 3. Conjunctive Adverbs; as, "We will come to see you when he returns." Independent Parts. The Independent Parts of sentences neither modify nor connect. They are 1. Nouns and pronouns in the Nominative Case Independent; as, "My father, must I stay?" "School having been dismissed, we went home," "Having conquered the enemy, the army retired." "Fair Greece! sad relic of departed worth! though fallen she is great." 2. Interjections; as, "Alas! his glory has departed." Yes, the report is certainly true. WRITTEN FORMS FOR SENTENCES CONTAINING CONNECTIVES OR INDEPENDENT PARTS. 1. He who steals my purse, steals trash. 2. We will come to see you' when he returns. 3. I know that he will remain with us. 4. The army having been defeated, they retreated to their own Note. In sentence (2) the conjunctive adverb when modifies the verb in both clauses, and is placed in parentheses. In sentence (3) the dotted line under that shows that it simply connects. Explanation. The independent part of the sentence is separated from the other by a dotted line. Exercise. Name the connectives and the independent parts in the following sentences: 1. Blessed be the hand that prepares a pleasure for a child! for there is no saying when and where it may again bloom forth.— Jerrold. 2. Lying is a great sin against God, who gave us a tongue to speak the truth, and not falsehood.-Sir Matthew Hale. 3. It is the ancient feeling of the human heart that knowledge is better than riches; and it is deeply and sacredly true.-Sydney Smith. 4. None are poorer because others are made rich.-H. Mann. 5 The good man is, in his way, the greatest of all artists.— Victor Cousin. 6. Experience is the best schoolmaster, but the school-fees are heavy. Coleridge. 7. The greatest man is he who chooses the right with invincible resolution.—Dr. Channing. 8. A lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright, But a lie which is half a truth is a harder matter to fight. 9. Mortals that would follow me, Love Virtue; she alone is free.-Milton. Phrases. Tennyson. A Phrase is a combination of two or more words forming a single expression, but not making complete sense. Phrases with regard to Form are— ." "Over the river." 1. Prepositional; as, “On the hillside," 2. Infinitive; as, "We strive to study diligently." Phrases with regard to Office are— 1. Substantive; as, "To do good is the duty of all." 2. Attributive; as, "He is in good health." 3. Explanatory; as, "It is sweet to die for one's country." 4. Independent; as, “Our friend being busy, we left the room." Phrases as Elements are 1. Adjective; as, “He makes no effort to secure the prize." 2. Adverbial; as, "Close by the stream the hut was built." 3. Objective; as, "Every one preferred to study." Remark. When the infinitive or the participial phrase is used as the subject, it is called the subject-phrase; as, "To waik too rapidly is tiresome." Exercise. Classify the phrases in the following, tell what kind of elements they are, and what they modify: 1. It is faith in something, and enthusiasm for something, that make a life worth looking at.-Holmes. 2. If we work upon marble, it will perish; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust.— Webster. 3. Hope, only Hope, of all that clings Around us, never spreads her wings.—Holmes. 4. Better for a man to possess manners than wealth, beauty, or talent.-Lord Lytton. 5. It is better to inspire the heart with a noble sentiment than to teach the mind a truth of science.-E. Brooks. 6. Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then a young heart beating under fourscore winters.— Emerson. 7. When a deed is done for freedom, through the broad earth's aching breast Runs a thrill of joy prophetic, trembling on from east to west. Lowell. Clauses. A Clause is a part of a sentence containing a subject and its predicate. Clauses, with reference to their use and their position in sentences, may be classified as follows: 1. The Subject Clause when used as the subject of a sentence; as, "That you have wronged me cannot be denied.” as, 2. The Predicate Clause when used as a predicate nominative; "My belief is that he will prosper." 3. The Relative Clause when introduced by a relative pronoun; as, "The man who is industrious will succeed." 4. The Appositive Clause when used in apposition with a noun or a pronoun; as, “The report that the thief has escaped is untrue." 5. The Adverbial Clause when used as an adverbial modifier; as, "I shall see him when he comes." 6. The Object Clause when used as an objective modifier; as, "They think that you have gone.” Note. The relative and the appositive clause are used as adjective modifiers. Exercise. Classify the clauses in the following sentences, tell what kind of elements they are, and what they modify: 1. The savage believed that to every man there is an appointed time to die.-Bancroft. 2. Montezuma displayed all the energy and enterprise in the commencement of his reign which had been anticipated from him.— Prescott. 3. Bunyan is almost the only writer that ever gave to the abstract the interest of the concrete.-Macaulay. 4. We admire the great deeds of Howard's benevolence, and wish that all men were like him.-Barnes. 5. One of the illusions is, that the present hour is not the critical, the decisive hour.-Emerson. 6. Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.-Bible. 7. Rivers will always have a shingly shore to play over, where they may be shallow, and foolish, and childlike; and another steep shore, under which they can prance, and purify themselves, and get their strength of waves fully together for due occasion.—Ruskin. 8. Oh joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live That Nature yet remembers What was so fugitive!- Wordsworth. |