Exercise.

Analyze the following simple sentences:

1. Knowledge is power.-Bacon.

2. Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world.-Coleridge. 3. Earnestness alone makes life eternity.-Carlyle.

4. Take things always by the smooth handle.-Jefferson.

5. The better part of valor is discretion.-Shakespeare.

6. How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank !—Shakespeare.

7. The groves were God's first temples.-Bryant.

8. Composition is the flowering out of a man's mind.-Mrs. Stowe. 9. Self-trust is the essence of heroism.-Emerson.

10. Westward the course of empire takes its way.-Berkeley.

11. An effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves.- Mrs. Child.

12. Leisure is time for doing something useful.-Franklin.

13. The strength of a nation is in the intelligent and well-ordered homes of its people.-Mrs. Sigourney.

14. How the universal heart of man blesses flowers!—Mrs. Child.

15. In character, in manners, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.-Longfellow.

16. Education is the cheap defence of nations.-Burke.

17. The true university of these days is a collection of books.Carlyle.

18. Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.-Bancroft.

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Night, sable goddess, from her ebon throne

In rayless majesty now stretches forth

Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world.-Young.

The splendor falls on castle-walls

And snowy summits old in story.-Tennyson.

Among the pitfalls in our way

The best of us walk blindly.-Alice Cary.

22. The cure of an evil tongue must be done at the heart.—Leighton.

23. Politeness is not always a sign of wisdom.-Landor.

24. Education should bring to mind the ideal of the individual.— Richter.

25. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.— Franklin.

26. True politeness is the spirit of benevolence showing itself in a refined way.-H. W. Beecher.

27. The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and to imitate Him.--Milton.

28. The chief art of learning is to attempt but little at a time.— Locke.

29.

The spacious firmament on high,
With all the blue ethereal sky,

And spangled heavens, a shining frame,
Their great Original proclaim.—Addison.

Models for Complex Sentences.

1. When the speaker had finished the audience retired.

This is a complex declarative sentence. The principal clause is the audience retired, and the subordinate clause, when the speaker had finished. Of the principal clause, the audience is the logical subject; the simple subject is audience, which is modified by the adjective element the; retired when the speaker had finished is the logical predicate; the simple predicate is retired, which is modified by the adverbial element when the speaker had finished. Of the subordinate clause, the speaker is the logical subject; the simple subject is speaker, which is modified by the adjective element the; had finished is the simple predicate, modified by the adverbial element when.

2. Them that honor me I will honor.

This is a complex declarative sentence. The principal clause is I will honor them, and the subordinate, that honor me. Of the principal clause, I is the simple subject, unmodified; will honor them that honor me is the logical predicate; the simple predicate is will honor, which is modified by the objective element them that honor me; them, the basis, is modified by the adjective element that honor me. Of the subordinate clause, that is the simple subject unmodified; honor me is the logical predicate; the simple predicate is honor, which is modified by the objective element me.

3. That we shall succeed is now certain.

The entire sentence is the

This is a complex declarative sentence. principal clause, and that we shall succeed is the subordinate. Of the principal clause, That we shall succeed is the simple subject unmodified; is now certain is the logical predicate; the simple predicate is is certain, of which certain is the attribute, and is the copula; certain is modified by the adverbial element now. Of the subordinate clause, we is the simple subject unmodified, and shall succeed is the simple predicate unmodified.

4. Do you think we shall have a pleasant time if we go?

This is a complex interrogative sentence, of which Do you think is the principal clause, and we shall have a pleasant time and if we go are subordinate clauses.

Of the principal clause, you is the simple subject unmodified; do think we shall have a pleasant time is the logical predicate; the simple predicate is do think, which is modified by the objective element we shall have a pleasant time.

Of the first subordinate clause, we is the simple subject unmodified, and shall have a pleasant time is the logical predicate; the simple predicate is shall have, which is modified by the objective element a pleasant time and the adverbial element if we go; time, the basis of the objective element, is modified by the adjective elements a and pleasant. Of the second subordinate clause, we is the simple subject unmodified, and go is the simple predicate unmodified; if is a connective joining the two subordinate clauses.

Exercise.

Analyze the following complex sentences:

1. Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.-Scott.

2. I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.Ruskin.

3. God helps them that help themselves.-Franklin.

4. Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.-Jefferson.

5. The best part of our knowledge is that which teaches us where knowledge leaves off and ignorance begins.-Holmes.

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I hold that Christian grace abounds

Where charity is seen.-Alice Cary.

One sweetly solemn thought

Comes to me o'er and o'er

That I'm nearer my home to-day

Than I've ever been before.-Phoebe Cary.

8. Man is the jewel of God, who has created this material world to keep His treasure in.-Parker.

9.

He prayeth best who loveth best

All things, both great and small.-Coleridge.

10. They are never alone that are accompanied by noble thoughts. -Sir Philip Sidney.

11. He struck a blow in the world that resounded through the universe.-Grattan.

12. Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue.-Emerson.

13. The books which help you most are those which make you think most.-Parker.

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Whene'er a noble deed is wrought,
Our hearts in glad surprise

To higher levels rise.-Longfellow.

15. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.-— Hawthorne.

16. Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.-Goldsmith.

17. The eternal stars shine out as soon as it is dark enough.Carlyle.

18. No one who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably depraved.—Carlyle.

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This is truth the poet sings,

That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things.-Tennyson.

20. Cursed be the social lies that warp us from the living truth.~ Tennyson.

21. Knowledge and timber should not be much used until they are seasoned.-Holmes.

22. How blessings brighten as they take their flight!-Young.

23. The poorest education that teaches self-control is better than the best that neglects it.-Sterling.

24. The Sabbath is the golden clasp which binds together the volume of the week.-Longfellow.

Models for Compound Sentences.

1. We must fight, or our liberties are lost. This is a compound declarative sentence. We must fight is the first member, and our liberties are lost is the second; or is a co-ordinate conjunction connecting the two members. Of the first member, we is the simple subject unmodified, and must fight is the simple predicate unmodified. Of the second member, our liberties is the logical subject; the simple subject is liberties, which is modified by the adjective element our; are lost is the simple predicate unmodified.

2.

The woods are hushed, the waters rest,

The lake is dark and still.

This is a compound declarative sentence, consisting of the three members, The woods are hushed, the waters rest, and the lake is dark and still. Of the first member, The woods is the logical subject; the simple subject is woods, which is modified by the adjective element the; are hushed is the simple predicate unmodified. Of the second member, the waters is the logical subject; the simple subject is waters, which is modified by the adjective element the; rest is the simple predicate unmodified. Of the third member, the lake is the logical subject; the simple subject is lake, which is modified by the adjective