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BY ALLEN H. WELD, A. M.
LUTHOR OF LATIN LESSONS AND READER, AND AN ENGLISH GRAMMAR.

PORTLAND:

PUBLISHED BY SANBORN AND CARTER,
EXCHANGE STREET.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1847, by ALLEN H. WELD, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Maine. SYNOPSIS OF GRAMMATICAL RELATIONS.

SUBJECT.

The SUBJECT of a sentence
may be a noun or pronoun) a
verb in the infinitive; a clause;
or any word or letter of which
omething can be affirmed.)

See Gram. § 35, 36, 37, 28, 34, or Parsing Book, pages 5,6.

MODIFIERS OF THE SUBJECT.

The MODIFIERS of the subject may
be a noun in apposition; an adjec
tive; a preposition with its object
(adjunct); a participle; a verb in the
infinitive; a relative clause; and rare-
ly an adverb.

The Subject, whose meaning is modified by one or more words,
is called the MODIFIED (or logical) SUBJECT.

SIMPLE

MODIFIERS OF THE PREDICATE

The MODIFIERS of the predicate may
be a noun in the objective case, (if the
verb is transitive;) a verb in the infini-
tive; an adverb; a preposition with
its object (adjunct); a clause; and
rarely an adjective.

The Predicate, whose meaning is modified by one or more words,
is called the MODIFIED (or logical) PREDICATE.

SENTENCES.

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of the good.

from your own admission.
verdant, in the winter.
from a Saxon word.

to-morrow.

to be accommodated.

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