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SUBORDINATE SENTENCE.

The following table will aid them in doing this.

CLASSIFICATION OF PARTICLES USED TO INTRODUCE

SUBORDINATE SENTENCES.

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§ XXXVIII.

As it is supposed that the pupil perfectly understands the elements of a simple sentence as shown in the first part, the only thing to be now attended to is the proper analysis of subordinate sentences, in relation to the principal, and to each other.

The following directions should be carefully followed.

Firstly. Divide the complex sentence to be analysed into as many portions as there are finite verbs, being careful to arrange all the adjuncts with their proper subjects and predicates.

Secondly. - Keep the order of these sentences as nearly as possible the same as in the passage to be analysed.

Thirdly.-Prefix a letter to each member to designate it; range them all in a column, one under the other; and opposite to each write down the kind of sentence, determined according to the explanations given in the preceding sections.

EXAMPLES.

1.

We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of Caledonian regions, and whence savage clans derived the blessings of religion.

2.

Can the merchant predict, that the speculation, on which he has entered, will be infallibly crowned with success ?

3.

Since I have mentioned this unaccountable zeal, which appears in infidels and atheists, I must further observe, that they are likewise possessed with the spirit of bigotry.

4.

I knew a person, who possessed the faculty of distinguishing flavours in so great perfection, that, after he had tasted ten different kinds of tea, he would distinguish without seeing them the particular sort which was offered to him.

5.

Breathes there a man with soul so dead,

Who never to himself hath said

This is my own, my native land:

Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned,

As home his footsteps he hath turned,

From wandering on a foreign strand?

6.

Wide as is the difference between us in physical advantages, and although the Greeks and Romans had no steam engines, telescopes, &c., yet in those matters, which determine human character, there is a perfect resemblance.

7.

And though her sons are scattered, and her daughters weep apart, While desolation like a pall weighs down each faithful heart,

As the palm beside the waters, as the cedar on the hills,

She shall rise in strength and beauty, when the Lord Jehovah wills.

8.

The shades of night were falling fast,

As through an Alpine village passed
A youth who bore, 'mid snow and ice,
A banner with this strange device,

Excelsior!

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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?

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EXAMPLE 3.

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 c, (cause.)
Adjective sentence to a.
Principal sentence.

Substantive sentence object to c.

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

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