19. And if you emigrate, you will soon find out, if you have eyes and common-sense, that the vegetable wealth of the world is no more exhausted than its mineral wealth.—Kingsley.
20. But music and painting, though they may be exquisite adornments of life, contain no living force that can develop a weak nation into a strong one.—Draper.
Exercise 20
Sentences containing all kinds of dependent propositions.
1. When you feel a true admiration for a teacher, a glow of enthusiasm for work, a thrill of pleasure at some excellent saying, give it expression.—C. W. Eliot.
2. Though his opinions were democratic, his tastes and his associations were such as harmonize best with monarchy and aristocracy.—Macaulay.
3. You tremble when you think of how your sin has outgrown itself, and is running far, far away where you can never follow it.—Phillips Brooks.
4.
Broad steps ascended to a terrace broad,
Whereon lay still light from the open door.