Simple, compound, complex Punctuation. X. Every direct question is followed by the mark of interrogation. Interrogative sentences may, like declarative sentences, be simple, compound, complex, compound-complex, the interrogative clause or clauses always being independent. Note.-Indirect questions will be discussed along with substantive clauses. The elements of the interrogative sentence occupy the same position in a diagram as those of a declarative sentence. EXERCISES 1. Canst thou minister to a mind diseased? 2. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy ctory? 3. Can any good thing come out of Nazareth? 4. What shall it profit a man to gain the whole world and >se his own soul? 5. Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do hey live forever? 6. Am I my brother's keeper? Is Saul also among the prophets? 7. Don't you remember sweet Alice, Ben Bolt? 8. What are the wild waves saying, Sister, the whole day long? 9. You hear that boy laughing? You think him all fun? 10. What fairylike music steals over the sea, Entrancing our sense with its charmed melody? II. Which of them, he or Adrian, for a good wager, first begins to crow? 12. O star-eyed Science ! hast thou wandered there, To waft us home the message of despair? 13. Who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? 14. Whence and what art thou, execrable shape? 15. Which way shall I fly Infinite wrath and infinite despair? 17. You are not like Cerberus, three gentlemen at once, are you? 18. When shall spring visit the mouldering urn? When shall spring dawn on the night of the grave? 19. What mighty ills have not been done by woman? 20. What boots it at one gate to make defence, 21. What, all my pretty chickens and their dam at one fell swoop? 22. You condemn the fault and not the actor of it? 23. Whether of them twain did the will of his father? 24. Must we in all things look for the how, and the why, and the wherefore? 25. Which seems to you the nearest to heaven, Socrátes drinking his hemlock, Regulus going back to the enemy's camp, or that old New England divine sitting comfortably in his study and chuckling over his conceit of certain poor women burned to death in his own town, and going roaring out of one fire into another? 26. Where is our usual manager of mirth? What revels are in hand? Is there no play 27. Beautiful river! goldenly shining, Birklands around thee, mountains above thee, 【VII. THE IMPERATIVE AND THE EXCLAMATORY SENTENCE The imperative sentence is used to express a com- Commands and, requirement, wish, or entreaty : Go fetch me a quart of sack. Take thrice thy money. Bid me tear the bond. Come into the garden, Maud. Do poor Tom some charity. mood The imperative sentence regularly uses the impera- Imperative ive mood of the verb. This, in its simplest form, is ike the root infinitive; but the imperative is conjugated also in the emphatic and progressive forms. It nas both active and passive voice, but only the present Subject ense. As a command, or the like, is given directly to the person commanded, the imperative mood proper would be used only in the second person; and as the subject of the commanded action is supposed to be present, no noun or pronoun need be expressed to represent this subject. When a subject is expressed it usually follows the verb. The singular form is not distinguished from the plural. The forms of the imperative are as follows: Note.-Beware has only the infinitive and imperative forms. Do be stirring da be gone do have done are rather idiomatic than requ Modifiers Simple, compound, complex First person Substitutes in first and third The verb in the imperative sentence takes the complements and modifiers going along with verbs in other sentences; and the imperative sentence, like the declarative and interrogative, may be simple, compound, or complex, the imperative clause being the independent one: Come go with me and be my love. Comrades, leave me here a little. Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel. Have done, have done; here comes the gentleman. As the first person plural may really include a second (we I and thou, I and he, etc.), there may be, and often is, in poetical expression what seems a first person plural imperative : Now tread we a measure. Break we our watch up. A periphrastic imperative for the first and third persons is made by using the regular imperative of let with the infinitive and its subject accusative. This construction expresses, however, wish, instruction, or direction rather than a command: Let us take our leave. Let him be no kinsman to my liege. Let dogs delight to bark and bite. Let no such man be trusted. Let your loins be girded about, and let your lamps. be burning. |