Infinitives and Participles
344. Co-ordinate conjunctions are also used to connect infinitives and participles.
Exercise 10
In the following sentences mark the infinitives and participles connected by co-ordinate conjunctions.
- Those words will inspire us to dream and to dare.
- We shall learn to produce and to distribute.
- To be or not to be, that is the question.
- Puffing and panting, the great engine pulled up to the station.
- A cringing and trembling coward fears to demand his own.
- The warped and twisted facts in the daily press deceive the masses.
- Singing and dancing should be enjoyed by all children.
- The exploiting and robbing of the people is made a virtue in ruling class ethics.
CLAUSES
345. Co-ordinate conjunctions are also used to connect clauses of equal rank. For example:
- The floods came and the winds blew.
Each of these clauses is a complete sentence in itself, but they are combined into one compound sentence by the use of the co-ordinate conjunction, and. Clauses united in this way may have a compound subject and a compound predicate, but two complete clauses must be united by a co-ordinate conjunction in order to form a compound sentence. For example:
- The rain and snow fell, and the wind blew a mighty gale.