LESSON LV.
As an interjection bears no grammatical relation to the other words of a sentence, its parsing consists in naming the parts of speech, and the feeling expressed.
Model.—Hurrah! we have won.
Hurrah, an interjection—expresses the feeling of joy.
EXERCISE.
Parse the interjections in the following sentences:—
| 1. | Ah! then and there was hurrying to and fro, | |
| And gathering tears, and tremblings of distress.—Byron. | ||
| 2. | News of battle! News of battle! | |
| Hark! ’tis ringing down the street.—Aytoun. | ||
| 3. | Oh! I’m thankful you are gone, Mary, | |
| Where grief can’t reach you more!—Lady Dufferin. | ||
| 4. | But, hush! hark! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell.—Byron. | |
| 5. | And, lo! from far, as on they pressed, there came a glittering band.—Hemans. | |
| 6. | “Alas,” said I, “man was made in vain!”—Addison. | |
| 7. | “Indeed!” said Uncle Tim, “pray, what do you make of the abstraction of a red cow?”—Haliburton. | |
| 8. | “Yet give one kiss to your mother dear! | |
| Alas! my child, I sinned for thee.” | ||
| “O mother, mother, mother,” she said, | ||
| “So strange it seems to me.”—Tennyson. | ||
| 9. | Ho! breakers on the weather bow, | |
| And hissing white the sea; | ||
| Go, loose the topsail, mariner, | ||
| And set the helm a-lee.—Swain. |
Syntax treats of the relations which words bear to one another in sentences, and of the order in which the words are arranged. The relation of a word in a sentence is called its construction.
Note.—Many of the leading principles of syntax have been illustrated already. We shall now study them and others in a systematic way.