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Analyze the following sentences, and afterwards express the analysis according to the foregoing diagram forms:

1. To be gentle is the test of a lady. — Feltham.

2. A nation cannot afford to do a mean thing. - Sumner. 3. To be furious in religion is to be irreligiously religious. Penn.

4. To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the melody of ignorance. Alcott.

5. To be selfish is to be ignoble. Haweis.

6. To be true is manly, chivalrous, Christian. Carlyle.

Analyze the following sentences, and note how the relations of clause forms are expressed in subsequent diagram forms :

1. Trees grow while we sleep.

2. They who mourn shall be comforted.

3. All noticed that the birds were leaving.

4. That he was courageous can hardly be denied.
5. If sorrow is shadow, joy is sunshine.

6. He asked what he was doing.

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Analyze the following sentences, and afterwards express the analysis according to the foregoing diagram:

1. If knowledge is power, patience is powerful.

- Robert Hall.

2. What I have done is due to patient thought.

- Sir Isaac Newton.

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3. The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide. - Longfellow. 4. Clothes form the intellect of the dandy.. Shaw. 5. Every fact that is learned becomes a key to other facts. Youmans.

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6. To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life. - Johnson.

7. They never fail who die in a great cause. Byron. 8. Not to know what happened before we were born is always to remain a child. Chatfield.

9. What we seek we shall find; what we flee from, flies from us. - Emerson.

10. Success is full of promise till men get it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown. - Beecher.

F. SUMMARY OF DEFINITIONS.

A phrase is a group of words that is used as a part of speech and does not contain a subject and predicate.

A clause is a group of words that is used as a part of speech, and contains a subject and predicate. A principal sentence is a sentence that is not dependent on another sentence for its meaning.

A subordinate sentence is a sentence that is dependent on another sentence for its complete meaning.

A simple sentence is a sentence that consists of one subject and a predicate, or a number of subjects and predicates regarded as one.

A compound sentence is a sentence that consists of two or more principal sentences.

A complex sentence is a sentence that consists of one principal sentence and one or more subordi

nate sentences.

Analysis is the separation of a sentence into its parts or elements.

Synthesis is the putting together of the elements or parts of a sentence to form a sentence.

Logical analysis is the separation of a sentence into its thought elements.

Grammatical analysis is the separation of a sentence into its word elements.

Diagramming is a visual representation of the products of an analysis.

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PART II.

THE MODIFICATIONS AND RELA-
TIONS OF PARTS OF SPEECH.

I. NOUNS.

A. CLASSES OF NOUNS.

A noun is a word used as the name of some person, place, or thing.

Note that each of the following nouns is the name of a class, or the name shared by individuals of a class:

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77. A noun that is the name of a class or the

name shared by individuals of a class is called a

common noun.

Common is from the Latin communis common, general.

Note that each of the following common nouns is used as a name of a group of similar things:

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Common
Noun.

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