Common School Grammar; With Models of Clausal, Phrasal, and Verbal Analysis and Parsing, Gradually Developing the Construction of the English Sentence - Softcover
Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865. Excerpt: ... has ever seen, are covered with the soil of twenty centuries. The man who is without God in the world, has broken the chain that binds him to the throne of the universe. RULE XX. Connective adverbs connect clauses, and show relation of time, place, manner, or cause; as, James will go when William comes. I will go where John goes. I will see how John does it. I will know why John does it. John found the book where he left it. This is a compound sentence, consisting of an independent and an adverbial clause. "John," the grammatical subject of the independent clause, is not modified. "Found," the grammatical predicate, is directly modified by the object "book," and by the clause "where he left it," used here as an adverb of place. "He," a substitute for "John," is the subject of the adverbial clause; "left" is the predicate; and " left it" the modified predicate. Where is a connective adverb, and connects the two clauses, showing the relation of place between the two actions to be identical. EXERCISES. Direction. Analyze Vie sentences, and parse the connective adverbs. A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines. Catch the bear before you sell his skin. He looked a Roman senator in the days when Rome survived. There is nothing humbler than ambition when it is about to climb. When men speak ill of you, live so that nobody will believe them. He went to see how money might be made. If, then, that friend demand why Brutus rose against Caesar, this is my answer. RULES OF SYNTAX, ILLUSTRATIONS AND EXCEPTIONS IN ARRANGEMENT AND CONSTRUCTION. RULE I. The subject of a finite verb is in the nominative case; as, The boy studies. He will learn. Note 1. Like the Latin construction of an accusative before the infinitive mood, an objective case is often us...
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