"She is like some tender tree, the pride and beauty of the grove;" "The ruby seemed like a spark of fire burning upon her white bosom."
Such contracted sentences form a connecting link between our study of simple and complex sentences.
COMPLEX SENTENCES.
The simple sentence the basis.
367. Our investigations have now included all the machinery of the simple sentence, which is the unit of speech.
Our further study will be in sentences which are combinations of simple sentences, made merely for convenience and smoothness, to avoid the tiresome repetition of short ones of monotonous similarity.
Next to the simple sentence stands the complex sentence. The basis of it is two or more simple sentences, which are so united that one member is the main one,—the backbone,—the other members subordinate to it, or dependent on it; as in this sentence,—
"When such a spirit breaks forth into complaint, we are aware how great must be the suffering that extorts the murmur."
The relation of the parts is as follows:—