[19] In another and larger sense, every mark of punctuation is disjunctive, as was said on [page 21].
[20] That is, Lord Falkland.
[21] This “that” is demonstrative.
[22] Sometimes a simple sentence is called periodic. This is when the natural order of subject and predicate is inverted. Thus: “Great is Diana of the Ephesians.” Indeed, the attributive position of the adjective is sometimes called periodic, because it delays the noun-idea. A long sentence is sometimes periodic up to a certain point, then loose; sometimes the opposite is true.
[23] Sentences that are in the main periodic may ordinarily be given this name.
[24] The longer passages to which the last two selections belong may be found in Genung’s Rhetorical Analysis.
[25] The phrase, “words that deserve distinction,” is Professor Barrett Wendell’s. See his English Composition, p. 103 (Scribner’s).
[26] See also Scott and Denney, Composition-Rhetoric, p. 72 ff. Teachers will be interested to compare an article by Miss Gertrude Buck, Educational Review, March, 1887. The matter is touched upon in the History of the English Paragraph, by the author of this book, p. 43 et al. (Univ. of Chicago Press).
[27] Is there not some ambiguity as to the grammatical structure here? Swallowed is logically the act performed by it, the fish, but grammatically it may be taken with ——? Remedy the fault.
[28] Good Manners, a pamphlet. (H. L. Hastings, Boston)