Coordination is possible with subordinate as well as with principal clauses.
The special exercises on the complex sentence conclude with some practise in turning simple inversions as found in poetry into direct sentence order.
Series VII
The detachable strips are used here also. The exercise should be conducted with reference to the sentence charts.
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| —Just where the tide of battle turns, Erect and lonely stood old John Burns ... And buttoned over his manly breast Was a bright blue coat with a rolling collar. | Old John Burns stood, erect and lonely just where the tide of battle turns.... A bright blue coat, with a rolling collar, was buttoned over his manly breast. |
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| —It was terrible: on the right Raged for hours the deadly fight, Thundered the battery's double bass, Difficult music for men to face; While on the left, where now the graves Undulate like the living waves That all that day unceasing swept Round shot ploughed the upland glades. Up to the pits the rebels kept, Bret Harte.—John Burns of Gettysburg. | It was terrible: the deadly fight raged for hours on the right; the battery's double bassthundered,—difficult music formen to face; while round shot ploughed the upland glades on the left, where now the graves undulate like the living waves that swept unceasing all that day up to the pits the rebels kept. |
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