10. The will has great though indirect power over the taste, just as it has over the belief.—Bagehot.
CHAPTER XII
THE ANALYSIS OF SENTENCES
We are now ready to analyze sentences containing adjective clauses, noun clauses, and adverbial clauses of time, place, and manner.
It frequently happens that there is a clause within a clause. The first clause is then to be treated as if it were a complex sentence, and the second clause analyzed when the rest of the first clause has been disposed of. In the sentence,—“He felt as if he would like to stay till every ship that had sailed out of Monterey in the last three years had returned,” the predicate contains a clause of manner introduced by as if and extending to the end of the sentence. In this modal clause the infinitive to stay is modified by a temporal clause introduced by till and extending to the end of the sentence. In this temporal clause the base-word of the subject, ship, is modified by the restrictive adjective clause introduced by the relative pronoun that and extending through the word years. So we have an adjective clause within a temporal clause which is within a modal clause.
Exercise 12
Analyze the following sentences.
1. Again Thor struck, so soon as Skrymir again slept.—Carlyle.
2.
We’ll go where on the rocky isles