EXERCISE 333.

Analyze the following sentences, and parse the participles and infinitives. Expand participle-phrases to clauses, and tell how the clauses affect the meaning of the main statement.

1. Strive to keep your appointments. 2. I have but a few more words to say. 3. Cease to do evil; learn to do well. 4. The mere fact of his father's paying the debt is no proof of its being a proper expenditure. 5. It was no easy task to bridge the chasm. 6. To profess and to possess are very different. 7. Evil falls on him who goes to seek it. 8. Gone are the birds that were our summer guests. 9. His great work having been well done, he rests at last. 10. He that is good at making excuses is seldom good for anything else. Let him learn the luxury of doing good. 11. Let us prevent his anger by sacrificing ourselves. 12. The law is made to protect the innocent by punishing the guilty. 13. By observing truth we shall secure the respect of others. 14. He saw a star fall from heaven and vanish in utter darkness. 15. It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.

16. England owes her liberties to her having been conquered by the Norman. 17. Eyes raised towards heaven are always beautiful, what ever they be. 18. Selfishness is making one's self the most important personage in the world. Happiness shared is perfected. 19. Silently to persevere in one's duty is the best answer to calumny. 20. You find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an earnest effort to confer that pleasure on others?

21. Freedom's battle, once begun,

Bequeathed from bleeding sire to son
Though baffled oft, is ever won.

22. Rest is not quitting the busy career;
Rest is the fitting of self to its sphere.

'Tis loving and serving the highest and best;

'Tis onwards! unswerving, and that is true rest.

23. To be graduated with a college diploma without having entered into the true spirit of college life by bearing an active part in its manifold and stimulating experiences, is to have failed of securing the best results of the course.

CHAPTER XXIV.

PHRASES, CLAUSES, AND COMBINED SENTENCES

REVIEW EXERCISE 334.

1. What are sentences? (§ 109.) 2. How are they divided with regard to kind? (§§ 113-117.) 3. How with regard to form? (§§ 187, 188, 365, 366.) 4. Define each kind. 5. What is a phrase? (§ 154.) 6. Name and define several kinds of phrases. (§§ 181, 224, 238, 561 (a), 562 (a).) 7. What is a clause? (§ 333.) 8. Name and define the kinds of clauses. (§§ 334, 342, 542.) 9. Name the modifiers of nouns and pronouns. (§§ 241, 334, 600, 609.) 10. Name the modifiers of verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. (§§ 214 (b), 241, 552, 601, 614 (a).)

619. The Base of a Sentence. The essential predicate is always a verb or verb-phrase. The subject, object, or subjective complement may be·

1. A Noun: Napoleon overthrew the government, and became Emperor.

2. A Pronoun: They released us.

Debtors are those in debt.

3. An Adjective [as Subjective Complement only]: They are silent. Out of sight is out of mind.

4. A Phrase:

To be absent is to be forgotten.

His keeping busy prevented his being homesick.
They will be in search of work.

5. A Noun-clause:

6. A Quotation:

What I learn cannot be taken from me.

We know that life is uncertain.

The fact is that he is totally blind.

"I still live" was the last that he said.

His dying words were, "Don't give up the ship."
Galileo exclaimed, "It does move."

(a) The subject in imperative sentences is generally omitted. You, thou, or ye may be supplied in analyzing.

2. An Infinitive-phrase: A plan to light th

An Adjective clause: Those that think 4. An Appositive Noun-clause:

Prove th 5. An Explanatory Noun-clause: It is tr

621. II. A verb, infinitive, participle verb may be modified by

1. A Noun or Noun-phrase: Stay a month 2. An Infinitive-phrase: The land is pleas We came to dem 3. An Adverb-clause: Stand wherever you

622. Compound Elements. Any tence, whether a part of the base or a compounded of two or more simple joined by conjunctions. Thus :

In Him we live and move.
Speak firmly but kindly.

He is both wis

Learn who he

EXERCISE 335.

Analyze these sentences, and show which tence are compound:

1. There health and plenty cheered the labori and daily exercise was the origin and secret of rode the hunters through the valleys or over t study, a desire to do right, and care in the c traits of his character. 5. We were deeply imp and sublimity of the cataract and its surroundi they choose, to live at peace with none, or to 7. Either sooner or later temperance fortifies

licated clearly. The following forms

ective clause modifying the noun (or pro

tive is

1. The relative pronoun who, which,

that, as.

2. The relative adverbs where, when, whence, why, etc.

erb-clause modifying the verb (adj. or adv.) oting time, place, cause, manner, comparison, ncession, purpose, etc.

tive is

used

tive is

1. The conj. adv. where, when, while, whence, as, etc.

2. The sub. conj. till, before, after, if, for, because, as, than, that, etc.

1. As subject of the verb

2. As object of the verb

3. As object of the prep.
4. As subjective complement of
5. In apposition with the noun

6. To explain the anticipative subject
(or object) it.

1. The conj. pro. what, whatever, whoever, etc.

2. The conj. adv. how, why, when, where, etc.

3. The sub. conj. that or whether.

selections for analysis and parsing,

g directions:

nary for the meaning of unfamiliar words.

3. Select the clauses and show how each is used.

4. Classify the sentence and analyze each part of it.

EXERCISE 336.

1. Classify the clauses in these sentences, and show, according to the preceding forms, how each is used.

2. Parse the clause-connectives.

1. We acquire the strength that we overcome. 2. O Solitude! where are the charms that sages have seen in thy face? 3. Life is what we make it. 4. Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty. 5. What pleases you will please me. 6. The fact is that he has betrayed my confidence. 7. He knew not that the chieftain lay unconscious of his son. 8. It is in vain that you seek to escape. 10. What he spake, though

11. All that he does is to

9. While he slept the enemy came. rt lacked form a little, was not madness. distribute what others produce. 12. He that fights and runs away may live to fight another day. 13. The best of what we do and are is poor enough. 14. I thank God that I never hated any man because he was poor or because he was ignorant. 15. A great many men, if put into the right position, would be Luthers or Columbuses. 16. No wonder you are deaf to all I say. 17. He whistled as he went, for want of thought. 18. Nothing waxeth old sooner than a good turn or a favor. 19. When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead. 20. Be silent, or say something better than silence. 21. Patience is so like Fortitude, that she seems either her sister or her daughter. 22. His misery was such that none of his friends could refrain from weeping. 23. What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted? 24. Thrice is he armed who hath his quarrel just; and he but naked, though locked up in steel, whose conscience with injustice is corrupted. 25. Still the wonder grew that one small head could carry all he knew. 26. When Strength and Justice are true yoke-fellows, where can be found a mightier pair than they? 27. You will gain a good reputation, if you endeavor to be what you desire to appear. 28. He made it clear that the plan was impossible. 29. He felt as though himself were he on whose sole arm hung victory.

30. Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see,

Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.