LESSON LXIV.
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ANALYSIS OF COMPLEX AND COMPOUND SENTENCES.
Model I.—Love had he found in huts where poor men lie.
Kind, a complex sentence.
Analysis of (A.)
Kind, a principal clause.
Subject, he.
Predicate, had found.
Object, love.
Adv. mod. of predicate, in huts where poor men lie.
Analysis of (B.)
Kind, an adj. clause, mod. huts.
Subject, men.
Adj. mod. of subj., poor.
Predicate, lie.
Adv. mod. of pred., where.
Model II.—Tell me who did it.
Kind, a complex sentence.
Analysis of (A.)
Kind, a principal clause.
Subject, [you.]
Predicate, tell.
Direct object, who did it.
Indirect object, me.
Analysis of (B.)
Kind, a noun clause, direct obj. of tell.
Subject, who.
Predicate, did.
Object, it.
Model III.—He goes home when I return.
Kind, a complex sentence.
Analysis of (A.)
Kind, a principal clause.
Subject, he.
Predicate, goes.
Adv. modifiers of pred., home, when I return.
Analysis of (B.)
Kind, an adv. clause, mod. goes.
Subject, I.
Predicate, return.
Adv. mod. of pred., when.
Model IV.—It doth appear you are a worthy judge.
Kind, a complex sentence.
Analysis of (A.)
Kind, a principal clause.
Real subject, you are a worthy judge.
Representative subject, it.
Predicate, doth appear.
Analysis of (B.)
Kind, a noun clause, real subj. of doth appear.
Subject, you.
Predicate, { verb incomplete predication, are.
{ complement of predicate, a worthy judge.
Model V.—The boy does not know this part of the wood, but he runs on.
Kind, a compound sentence.
Analysis of (A.)
Kind, a principal clause.
Subject, boy.
Adj. mod. of subj., the.
Predicate, does know.
Object, part.
Adj. modifiers of obj., this, of the wood.
Adv. mod. of pred., not.
Analysis of (B.)
Kind, a principal clause.
Subject, he.
Predicate, runs.
Adv. mod. of pred., on.
Model VI.—
From yonder ivy-mantled tower
The moping owl does to the moon complain
Of such as, wandering near her secret bower,
Molest her ancient, solitary reign.—Gray.
Kind, a complex sentence.
Analysis of (A.)
Kind, a principal clause.
Subject, owl.
Adj. modifiers of subj., the, moping.
Predicate, does complain.
Adv. modifiers of pred.,
from yonder ivy-mantled
tower, to the moon,
of such as, wandering . . . .
. . . . reign.
Analysis of (B.)
Kind, an adj. clause, mod. such.
Subject, as.
Adj. mod. of subj., wandering near her secret bower.
Predicate, molest.
Object, reign.
Adj. modifies of obj., her, ancient, solitary.
Model VII.—Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old, he will not depart from it.—Bible.
Kind, a compound-complex sentence.
Analysis of (A.)
Subject, [you.]
Predicate, train.
Object, child.
Adj. mod. of obj., a.
Adv. modifiers of pred., up, in the way he should go.
Analysis of (B.)
Kind, an adj. clause, mod. way.
Subject, he.
Predicate, the verb-phrase, should go.
Analysis of (C.)
Kind, an adv. clause, mod. will depart.
Subject, he.
Predicate, { verb of incomplete predication, is.
{ complement of predicate, old.
Adv. of mod. of pred., when.
Analysis of (D.)
Kind, a principal clause.
Subject, he.
Predicate, will depart.
Adv. modifiers of pred., not, from it, when he is old.
EXERCISES.
1. The evil that men do lives after them.—Shakespeare.
2. An idler is a watch that wants both hands.—Cowper.
3. If sinners entice thee, consent thou not.—Bible.
4. “I have it ready,” said Bassanio; “here it is.”—Lamb.
5. I think of those upon whose rest he tramples.—Bryant.
6. It is a great day when the sled is loaded with the buckets, and the procession starts for the woods.—Warner.
7. Meantime the French had given way, and were flying in all directions.—Warburton.
8. I believe there is no permanent greatness to a nation except it be based upon morality.—Bright.
9. Gilliatt had thrust his arm deep into the opening; the monster had snapped at it.—Hugo.
10. The things we have described occupied only a few minutes.—Hugo.
11. The Turks spread gradually over the battlefield below us, slaughtering as they advanced.—Forbes.
12. There were many boys in the room by whom that little scene was taken to heart before they slept.—Hughes.
13. General Brock, who had risen as usual before day-break, hearing the cannonading, galloped from Niagara to the scene of action.—Miss Machar.
14. In walking one day up the mountain behind Montreal, I leaned over a paling which enclosed the water reservoir of the city.—Argyle.
15. Then was committed that fearful crime, memorable for its singular atrocity, memorable for the tremendous retribution which followed.—Macaulay.
16.She was a phantom of delight
When first she gleamed upon my sight.—Wordsworth.
17.He that died at Azan gave
This to those who made his grave.—Arnold.
18.He sendeth the springs into the valleys,
Which run among the hills.—Bible.
19.Thy dress was like the lilies,
And thy heart as pure as they.—Longfellow.
20.A pound of that same merchant’s flesh is thine;
The court awards it, and the law doth give it.—Shakespeare.
21. Happy is the man whose good intentions have borne fruit in deeds and whose evil thoughts have perished in the blossom.—Scott.
22. There was one tall Norman knight who rode before the Norman army on a prancing horse, throwing up his heavy sword and catching it, and singing of the bravery of his countrymen.—Dickens.
23. This dashed the spirits of the Iroquois, and they sent a canoe to call to their aid five hundred of their warriors, who were mustered near the mouth of the Richelieu.—Parkman.
24. The parent who sends his son into the world uneducated, defrauds the community of a useful citizen and bequeaths to it a nuisance.—Chancellor Kent.
25. The smoke which hung upon the field rolled in slow and heavy masses back upon the French lines, and gradually discovered to our view the entire of the army.—Lever.
26.As o’er the verdant waste I guide my steed,
Among the high, rank grass that sweeps his sides,
The hollow beating of his footsteps seems
A sacrilegious sound.—Bryant.
27.Scarcely the hot assault was staid,
The terms of truce were scarcely made,
When they could spy, from Branksome’s towers,
The advancing march of martial powers.—Scott.
28.I made a footing in the wall,
It was not therefrom to escape,
For I had buried one and all,
Who loved me in a human shape.—Byron.
29.So the storm subsides to calm;
They see the green trees wave
On the heights o’erlooking Grève;
Hearts that bled are stanched with balm.—Browning.
30.He who from zone to zone
Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight
In the long way that I must tread alone
Will lead my steps aright.—Bryant.
31. Columbus tried to pacify them with gentle words and promises of large rewards; but finding that they only increased in clamor, he assumed a decided tone.—Irving.
32. Wolfe and the troops with him leaped on shore; the light infantry, who found themselves borne by the current a little below the intrenched path, clambered up the steep hill, staying themselves by the roots and boughs of the maple and spruce and ash trees that covered the precipitous declivity.—Bancroft.
33. The boys, who were twelve and ten years old, aided by the soldiers, whom her words had inspired with some little courage, began to fire from the loop-holes upon the Iroquois.—Parkman.
34. She had told Tom, however, that she would like him to put the worms on the hook for her, although she accepted his word when he assured her that worms couldn’t feel.—George Eliot.
35. The beadle, who performed it, had filled his left hand with yellow ochre, through which, after every stroke, he drew the lash of his whip, leaving the appearance of a wound upon the skin, but in reality not hurting him at all.—Cowper.
36.On a rock whose haughty brow
Frowns o’er old Conway’s foaming flood,
Robed in the sable garb of woe,
With haggard eyes the Poet stood.—Gray.
37.Between the dark and the daylight,
When the night is beginning to lower,
Comes a pause in the day’s occupations
That is known as the Children’s Hour.—Longfellow.
38.The gallant youth, who may have gained,
Or seeks, a “Winsome Marrow,”
Was but an infant in the lap
When first I looked on Yarrow.—Wordsworth.
39.She told me all her friends had said;
I raged against the public liar;
She talked as if her love were dead,
But in my words were seeds of fire.—Tennyson.
40.The dwarf, who feared his master’s eye
Might his foul treachery espy,
Now sought the castle buttery,
Where many a yeoman, bold and free,
Revelled as merrily and well
As those that sat in lordly selle.—Scott.
PART FIFTH.
COMPOSITION.