+Direction+.—Assign reasons for the punctuation of the independent clauses in the preceding Lesson.
+Direction+.—Using the copulative and, the adversative but, and the alternative or or nor, form compound sentences out of the following simple sentences, and give the reasons for your choice of connectives:—
Read not that you may find material for argument and conversation. The rain descended. Read that you may weigh and consider the thoughts of others. Can the Ethiopian change his skin? Righteousness exalteth a nation. The floods came. Great was the fall of it. Language is not the dress of thought. Can the leopard change his spots? The winds blew and beat upon that house. Sin is a reproach to any people. It is not simply its vehicle. It fell.
Compound sentences may be contracted by using but once the parts common to all the clauses, and compounding the remaining parts.
+Example+.—Time waits for no man, and tide waits for no man = Time and tide wait for no man.
+Direction+.—Contract these compound sentences, attending carefully to the punctuation:—
1. Lafayette fought for American independence, and Baron Steuben fought for
American independence.
2. The sweet but fading graces of inspiring autumn open the mind to
benevolence, and the sweet but fading graces of inspiring autumn dispose
the mind for contemplation.
3. The spirit of the Almighty is within us, the spirit of the Almighty is
around us, and the spirit of the Almighty is above us.
A compound sentence may be contracted by simply omitting from one clause such words as may readily be supplied from the other.
Example.—He is witty, but he is vulgar = He is witty but vulgar.
+Direction+.—Contract these sentences:—