b. which was once the luminary of Caledonian regions Adjective sentence to a. c. and whence savage clans derive the blessings of religion... Adjective sentence to a, co-ordinate to b. EXAMPLE 2. a. Can the merchant predict b. that the speculation will be infallibly crowned with success c. on which he has entered? EXAMPLE S. a. Since I have mentioned this unaccountable zeal b. which appears in Infidels and Atheists c. I must further observe d. that they are likewise possessed with the spirit) of bigotry. ...... Adverbial sentence to e, (cause.) Substantive sentence object to o. EXAMPLE 4. a. I knew a person b. who possessed the faculty of distinguishing flavours in so great perfection .... c. that he would distinguish without seeing them, the particular sort ..... d. after he had tasted ten different kinds of tea e. which was offered to him EXAMPLE 5. a. Breathes there a man with soul so dead b. Who never to himself hath said c. This is my own, my native land d. Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned e. As home his footsteps he hath turned From wandering on a foreign strand a. Wide as is the difference between us in physical | advantages ...... b. and although the Greeks and Romans had no steam engines, telescopes, etc. .... c. yet in those matters there is a perfect resemblance d. which determine human character ....... a. And though her sons are scattered down each faithful heart d. As the palm beside the waters (rises) a. The shades of night were falling fast c. who bore mid snow and ice, a banner } REMARKS. 1. Care must be taken never to alter a word in the sentences to be analysed, or to insert one except in case of an actual grammatical ellipsis. Such an ellipsis occurs in example 7, where the two nouns, palm and cedar, have each the verb rises understood from the last line. 2. The nominative absolute and the infinitive mood are often used in the sense of adverbial sentences.-Thus in the passage: "The sense of an author being the first object of reading, care must be taken to express it accurately," the nominative absolute is equivalent to the adverbial sentence"As the sense of an author is the first object of reading;" and may be so analysed. Again, in the sentence: "To save himself from peril he recanted," the infinitive clause is equivalent to an adverbial sentence of purpose, that he might save himself," and has a totally different sense from the ordinary infinitive mood. In French this would be expressed by afin que, in German by um zu. EXERCISES. 49. Analyse the following complex sentences according to the method above explained and illustrated. 1. Mahomet was a native of Mecca, a city of that division of Arabia, which, for the luxury of its soil and temperature of its climate, has ever been esteemed the loveliest region in the world. 2. To obtain the pathetic and sublime in oratory requires those strong sensibilities of mind, which are given to few. |