- 1. Evil, according to old philosophers, is good in the making.
- 2. But anger drives a man to say anything.
- 3. The teachings of the High Spirit are abstemious, and, in regard to particulars, negative.
- 4. Spanish diet and youth leave the digestion undisordered and the slumbers light.
- 5. Yet they made themselves sycophantic servants of the King of Spain.
- 6. A merciless oppressor hast thou been.
- 7. To the men of this world, to the animal strength and spirits, the man of ideas appears out of his reason.
- 8. I felt myself, for the first time, burthened with the anxieties of a man, and a member of the world.
(c) Pick out the direct and the indirect object in each:—
- 1. Not the less I owe thee justice.
- 2. Unhorse me, then, this imperial rider.
- 3. She told the first lieutenant part of the truth.
- 4. I promised her protection against all ghosts.
- 5. I gave him an address to my friend, the attorney.
- 6. Paint me, then, a room seventeen feet by twelve.
(d) Pick out the words and phrases in apposition:—
- 1. To suffer and to do, that was thy portion in life.
- 2. A river formed the boundary,—the river Meuse.
- 3. In one feature, Lamb resembles Sir Walter Scott; viz., in the dramatic character of his mind and taste.
- 4. This view was luminously expounded by Archbishop Whately, the present Archbishop of Dublin.
- 5. Yes, at length the warrior lady, the blooming cornet, this nun so martial, this dragoon so lovely, must visit again the home of her childhood.
(e) Pick out the modifiers of the predicate:—
- 1. It moves from one flower to another like a gleam of light, upwards, downwards, to the right and to the left.
- 2.
- And hark! like the roar of the billows on
the shore,
The cry of battle rises along their changing line. - 3. Their intention was to have a gay, happy dinner, after their long confinement to a ship, at the chief hotel.
- 4. That night, in little peaceful Easedale, six children sat by a peat fire, expecting the return of their parents.
Compound Subject, Compound Predicate, etc.
Not compound sentences.
353. Frequently in a simple sentence the writer uses two or more predicates to the same subject, two or more subjects of the same predicate, several modifiers, complements, etc.; but it is to be noticed that, in all such sentences as we quote below, the writers of them purposely combined them in single statements, and they are not to be expanded into compound sentences. In a compound sentence the object is to make two or more full statements.