An English Grammar eBook

James Witt Sewell
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 358 pages of information about An English Grammar.

An English Grammar eBook

James Witt Sewell
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 358 pages of information about An English Grammar.
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OUTLINE

381. (1) Find the principal clause.

(2) Analyze it according to Sec. 364.

(3) Analyze the dependent clauses according to Sec. 364.  This of course includes dependent clauses that depend on other dependent clauses, as seen in the “map” (Sec. 380). 107 |

Exercises.

(a) Analyze the following complex sentences:—­

1.  Take the place and attitude which belong to you.

2.  That mood into which a friend brings us is his dominion over us.

3.  True art is only possible on the condition that every talent has its apotheosis somewhere.

4.  The deep eyes, of a light hazel, were as full of sorrow as of inspiration.

5.  She is the only church that has been loyal to the heart and soul of man, that has clung to her faith in the imagination.

6.  She has never lost sight of the truth that the product human nature is composed of the sum of flesh and spirit.

7.  But now that she has become an establishment, she begins to perceive that she made a blunder in trusting herself to the intellect alone.

8.  Before long his talk would wander into all the universe, where it was uncertain what game you would catch, or whether any.

9.  The night proved unusually dark, so that the two principals had to tie white handkerchiefs round their elbows in order to descry each other.

10.  Whether she would ever awake seemed to depend upon an accident.

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