feel the spirit of the age in which he lives and thinks and does his work. 5 As the woman heard, Fast flowed the current of her easy tears, 6 If any man ask me what a free government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so. 7 But to my mind, though I am native here And to the manner born, it is a custom More honored in the breach than in the observance. 8 Harpers must lull him to his rest, With the slow soft tunes he loves the best, Like the dew on a summer hill. 9 It has been observed that one of the curious contrasts which make up that complex creature, Walter Scott, is the strong attraction which drew him, as a Lowlander the born natural antagonist of the Gael, to the Highland people. 10 If these brief lays of sorrow born Were taken to be such as closed Grave doubts and answers here proposed, Then these were such as men might scorn. 11 When the public man omits to put himself in a situation of doing his duty with effect, it is an omission that frustrates the purposes of his trust almost as much as if he had formally betrayed it. 12 If you convey a false impression, what difference does it make how you convey it? 13 In after-days, when grasses high O'ertop the stone where I shall lie, 66 14 But when the days of golden dreams had perish'd, And even Despair was powerless to destroy, Then did I learn how existence could be cherish'd, Strengthen'd, and fed, without the aid of joy. 15 Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My music shows ye have your closes. 16 If the spirits of the departed are cognizant, as we fondly trust they are, of the sentiments which animate the breathers of this world," Shakespeare's may well be filled with profoundest love and gratitude in the perception of how much it was permitted to contribute towards the elevation and refinement of the world. 17 When ye fight with a wolf of the pack you must fight him alone and afar, Lest others take part in the quarrel and the pack is diminished by war. 18 If you mean to please any people, you must give them the boon which they ask. 19 When popular discontents have been very prevalent, it may well be affirmed and supported that there has been generally something found amiss in the constitution or the character of government. 20 Is it not better at an early hour In its calm cell to rest the weary head, While birds are singing and while blooms the bower, 116. Complex Sentences containing two or more Subordinate Clauses not related to each other are analyzed as follows:— EXAMPLE: Poor wretches that depend On greatness' favor dream, as I have done, A Complex Declarative Sentence. Principal Proposition, Poor wretches dream, wake, and find nothing; First Sub ordinate Clause, that depend on greatness' favor, adjective modifier of wretches; connective that (relative pronoun); Second Subordinate Clause, as I have done, adverbial modifier of dream; connective as (conjunctive adverb). [Detailed analysis as in 109.] Exercise 93. Analyze according to the model given above the sentences in Exercise 92. 117. Complex Sentences sometimes contain Parenthetical Clauses which are inserted as a comment on what the sentence states: as, I should do Brutus wrong, and Cassius wrong, Note: The Relative Pronoun as frequently introduces Parenthetical Clauses, its antecedent being the Principal Proposition taken as a whole (85): as, "Carlyle, as Lord Morley says, preached the doctrine of silence in thirty volumes." CHAPTER IX THE CONJUNCTION 118. A Conjunction is a word used to connect Words, Phrases, or Clauses. According to their use, conjunctions are classified as (1) Co-ordinate and (2) Subordinate. Note 1: Co-ordinate Conjunctions connect Words, Phrases, and Clauses of the same rank. Words and Phrases are of the same rank when they bear the same relation to some other word in the sentence. Clauses are of the same rank when they are both Principal or both Subordinate. The chief Co-ordinate Conjunctions are: and, but, or, nor, not only-but also. Note 2: Subordinate Conjunctions connect Subordinate Clauses with Principal Propositions and hence are only used in Complex Sentences. The chief Subordinate Conjunctions are: that, if, lest, because, since, although, than, as (107). Note 3: The Subordinate Conjunction that frequently introduces Noun Clauses and is then known as an Introductory Subordinate Conjunction (64). Note 4: Conjunctions used in pairs are called Correlative Conjunctions. They are: both-and; either-or; whether-or; neither-nor; not only-but also. The first Conjunction of the pair is merely Introductory, the connective force belonging to the second. Note 5: The following expressions are best explained as Phrasal Conjunctions: in order that; for as much as; as if; as though, etc. Note 6: But (when it means except), till, until, and since are often used as Prepositions: as, "Since his exile, she has despised me most "; " Spirits are not finely touched but to fine issues." Exercise 94. In the following sentences find the coordinate conjunctions and tell what words or phrases each connects: 1 Now the dog was a hound of the Danish breed, Stanch to love and strong at need. 2 And whether his view was right or wrong Has little to do with this my song. 3 A night of memories and of sighs I consecrate to thee. 4 King Canute was weary-hearted; he had reigned of years a score, Battling, struggling, pushing, fighting, killing much and robbing more. 5 Monsieur the Curé down the street Comes with his kind old face, With his coat worn bare, and his straggling hair, 6 Shrilling pipe or fluting whistle Fife of frog and call of tree-toad, 7 In this, or in some other spot, 8 On either side the river lie Long fields of barley and of rye. 9 Now folds the lily all her sweetness up And slips into the bosom of the lake. 10 They strike mine eyes, but not my heart. 11 Hast thou named all the birds without a gun? Loved the wood-rose and left it on its stalk? |