2. LAW FOR MODIFYING TERMS. Secondly. Modifying terms must be embraced in the lower half-section of the elliptical figure; or, if essentially substantive, and employed either as grammatical adjuncts or only as logical modifiers, in the complete ellipse. Under this rule, are included adjectives and adverbs used as grammatical adjuncts, and nouns, pronouns, and irregular substantives, employed as logical adjuncts. Examples will be found below, in the words, The, ancient, their, the, storied, animated, Back, the, its, Hermit, and Apostle. 3. LAW FOR AUXILIARY OR CONNECTIVE TERMS. Thirdly. Proper grammatical auxiliary terms, or connectives, employed either to introduce sentences, or to connect words, phrases, or propositions, should be enclosed in the small horizontal ellipse. This rule applies to all conjunctions, whether purely conjunctive or partly * Errors occur in other points in these diagrams, as well as some others following, which will be noticed elsewhere. adverbial or pronominal. Examples will be found below, in the words, or, ere, But, and that. LAW FOR CIRCUMSTANTIAL RELATIVES. Fourthly. Circumstantial relatives used to introduce phrases, must be enclosed in the lower, larger segment of the vertical ellipse; or, if logically involved in some verbal term in a phrase mode, in this vertical segment blended into the larger, right section of the horizontal ellipse. Under this rule, are included prepositions, either ordinary or adverbial, or, (in the latter case,) as logically included in the participle in its proper phrase office. This rule is exemplified in the words, in, To, in, of, scaling, having arrived, suspecting, of, for, and defending, as given below. in beginning, the bestow favors many 5. LAW FOR INDEPENDENT TERMS NOT IN PREDICATE. Fifthly. Independent terms, (not employed in predcate or predication,) if substantive, representative, exclamatory, or euphonic, are enclosed within the complete ellipse; if adjective or adverb proper, within the lower segment of the ellipse, as in the case of modifying terms. This includes nouns, pronouns, and irregular substantives, used as logical modifiers, in direct address, or as mere abstract titles; sentential representatives, as yes, yea, no and nay; exclamations and pure euphonic terms. These are partially exemplified below, in the words, Roderic, There, Ah, and Yes. III-Specific Laws of the Diagrams. Logical Classification. The specific laws of the diagrams classified, in the second place, according to the functional relations of elements, are applicable to individual relations, clause relations, and comparative subordination, as comprehensively exhibited in the following TABULAR SCHEMES for the sentence and the phrase. |