EXERCISE 64
([§§ 501–503], [p. 209])
Point out the independent elements. Tell whether each is an interjection, a vocative (nominative by direct address), an exclamatory nominative, or a parenthetical expression. Analyze the sentences.
1. The king, Melfort said, was determined to be severe. 2. O Mary, go and call the cattle home. 3. Pardon me, my dear fellow. 4. Between ourselves, I shall not be sorry to have a quiet evening. 5. Knowledge, indeed, and science express purely intellectual ideas.—Newman. 6. Oh! oh! pictures don’t pay. 7. To make a long story short, the company broke up. 8. True, our friend is already in his teens. 9. To use a ready-made similitude, we might liken universal history to a magic web.—Carlyle. 10. Poor fellows! they only did as they were ordered, I suppose. 11. The world, as we said, has been unjust to him. 12. Therefore, good Brutus, be prepared to hear.
13. Peace! count the clock. 14. Excuse, no doubt, is in readiness for such omission. 15. The lord—for so I understood he was—looked at me with an air of surprise. 16. Lo, Cæsar is afraid. 17. Delay not, Cæsar; read it instantly. 18. My counsel, I need not say, made full use of this hint. 19. My small services, you remember, were of no use. 20. I knew—one knows everything in dreams—that they had been slain. 21. I knew it, I say, to be a fallacy. 22. Liberty! freedom! tyranny is dead! 23. Stay, ho! and let us hear Mark Antony.
EXERCISE 65
([§§ 504–523], [pp. 210–219])
1. Analyze the simple sentences in [§ 509]; the compound sentences in [§ 511]; the complex sentences in [§ 512]; the compound complex sentences in [§§ 514–515].
2. Study the examples in [§§ 517–523], and explain their structure orally. Tell whether the various subordinate clauses are simple, compound, or complex, and why. Give the construction of each. Analyze the sentences.
3. Construct five complex sentences on the principle of [§ 517]; of [§ 520]; of [§ 521]; of [§ 522].
EXERCISE 66
([§§ 524–526], [pp. 220–223])
1. Study the sentences in [§§ 525–526] until you can explain their structure.
2. Find, in some good English or American author, ten sentences of considerable length and explain their structure.