(Here a choice is denied.)
9. Either Hamlet was mad, or he feigned madness admirably.
(See (16), Lesson 20.)
+Independent Clauses+ expressing thoughts one of which is an +inference+ from the other.
10. People in the streets are carrying umbrellas, hence it must be raining. 11. I have seen, therefore I believe.
I | have seen
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+Explanation+.—In such constructions and may be supplied, or the adverb may be regarded as the connective. The diagram illustrates therefore as connective.
+Independent Clauses+ joined in the sentence +without a conjunction+.
12. The camel is the ship of the ocean of sand; the reindeer is the camel of the desert of snow. 13. Of thy unspoken word thou art master; thy spoken word is master of thee. 14. The ship leaps, as it were, from billow to billow.
+Explanation+.—As it were is an independent clause used parenthetically. As simply introduces it.