158. I hold a different opinion to yours (84).

159. The lowest strata of all was chalk.

160. The river has overflown its banks.

161. Fresh air is the best medicine, which, if more widely known, men would be the better of it.

162. A man may smoke and drink till he is unable to live without them.

*163. I'll go back there-no, never.

164. They should try and improve themselves, so that they might command better wages.

165. I have heard that story no less than a dozen times.

166. There was not a shadow of a whisper heard (185, 3).

167. He enjoys the universal esteem of all (185, 1).
168. His father was opposed to him entering the army.
169. Each of the children have their own peculiar traits.
170. Go with mean people, and we think the world mean.
171. Eat it with a spoon like you would custard.

172. She neither moved, spoke, or wept during all those sad days. [See the meaning of the suffix ther, 28, iv.]

173. No sooner had James ascended the throne, but he began 174. The life husband and wife lead influence the children.

*175. Measles is not commonly a dangerous disease.

176. He not only found her employed, but pleased and tranquil.

177. I cannot reconcile your statement to his (84).

*178. It was the necessity which made me a quarrier, that taught me to be a geologist (26, 15).

179. The crisis is one of the most singular which have ever occurred (26).

180. The old gentleman proposed a walk to Vauxhall, a place of which, he said, he had heard much, but had never seen it.

181. They carry as tribute to Pekin furs and gold-dust, which they collect from the sands of their rivers.

182. The farmstead was always the white-painted house, of which the small country towns are composed.

183. Gordon, whose own business not requiring much attention, often left his more immediate concerns.

*184. He dare not come (39).

*185. This picture was not mine but my brother's-an artist himself and a great connoisseur.

[Would you be inclined to apply the strict rules of apposition here?]

*186. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab and wounded the dragon? *187. The whole of the orchard was ruined.

[Why "whole of" ?]

*188. You are no soldier.

[How would you parse "no"?]

*189. The sight of his blood, whom they deemed invulnerable, shook the courage of the soldiers.

190. Amazed at the alteration in his manner, every sentence that he uttered increased her embarrassment.

*191. Nor heaven nor earth have been at peace to-night.

*192. The majority of the inhabitants are ready to petition against his

return. *193.

The stork assembly meets,

Consulting deep and various ere they take

Their arduous voyage thro' the liquid sky.

194. Depend upon it, he would not like to have his charade slighted much better than his passion.

195. Directly Louis XVI. came to the throne, Vergennes became a Minister.

*196. And was not this the Earl? "Twas none but he.

[But is radically and originally a preposition; it came, in time, to be used as a conjunction.]

197. The French Celt, he maintained, would never become a colonist in Algeria, and that he did not thrive in Corsica.

[Is "he maintained" parenthetical or no?]

198. I had a sensation as though I had been walking through long dark alleys in a subterranean coal-cellar, and that I now through an opening saw the light of day.

*199. He more than hesitated, he refused.

[How is more than" to be parsed? Cf. Byron's "Go! let

thy less than woman's hand assume the distaff."]

*200. Theirs is the fault, who began the quarrel.

201. You seldom or ever see a hale or hearty man or woman vending watercresses.

202. The cabin was superior in comfort and more dignified in appearance to the generality of the hovels.

203. I so greatly prefer hearing you than speak myself.

204. I have a book printed at Antwerp, and which was once possessed by Adam Smith.

[This kind of error is sometimes called “the sin of which-craft.”] 205. The greatest variety of forms, with the least meaning in them, were its excellences.

*206. Sacred and profane wisdom agree in declaring that "pride goeth before a fall."

207. I beg you to carefully execute my order.

[A gross fault of style, though not of grammar.]

208. Remain single and marry nobody, let him be whom he may. 209. Every man of the boat's crew save Amyas were down with a raging fever.

210. No one should marry unless they have the certain means of supporting their children.

211. I always delight in overthrowing those kind of schemes and cheating a person of their premeditated contempt.

*212. In this state Frank found her, she trembling, they loud and insolent.

213. He gave away his fortune to the Lord knows who.

*214. Nobody had any control over him but her.

215. If there's any one embarrassed, it will not be me and it will not be she.

216. Erected to the memory of John Phillips, accidentally shot as a mark of affection by his brother.

217. John Keats, the second of four children, like Chaucer and Spenser, was a Londoner.

218. I am neither an ascetic in theory or practice.

[From a speech of an ex-Vice-President of the Committee of Council on Education.]

219. I never remember to have seen so ugly a face.

["Never remember"="always forget."]

220. His last journey whence he was never destined to return. 221. Rats and gentlemen catched and waited on and all other jobs performed by Solomon Gundy (Advt.).

*222. His two eldest sons were there.

[Could this be put differently? Cf. Example 28.]

223. I believe that when he died the Cardinal spoke at least fifty languages.

224. The guilelessness of his own heart led him to suspect none in others.

225. The death is announced of Sir W- A baronet, whose creation dates from 1694.

a Nova Scotia

226. Few of his friends except myself knew of him being there. 227. The sad faces and joyous music formed an incongruous sight. 228. The bullet fortunately indented a coin in his pocket, thus saving his life.

229. The moon rose like a silver shield, raining her bright arrows on the sea (190, 4, iii.).

230. A duty too rigidly insisted on will make it odious.

231. The trade in seal-skins is large, but I saw none in crossing; the steamers have frightened them away.

232. One of the duellists was unhurt, and the other sustained a wound in the arm of no importance.

[Which arm was this?]

THE ANALYSIS OF SENTENCES.

1. Words are gregarious, and go in groups. When a group of words makes complete sense, it is called a sentence. A sentence is not a chance collection of words; it is a true organism, with a heart and limbs. When we take the limbs apart from the central core or heart of the sentence, and try to show their relation to that core, and to each other, we are said to analyse the sentence. The process of thus taking a sentence to pieces, and naming and accounting for each piece, is called analysis.

(i) Analysis is a Greek word which means breaking up or taking apart its opposite is Synthesis, which means making up or putting together.

(ii) When we examine a sentence, and divide it into its component parts, we are said to analyse the sentence, or to perform an act of analysis. But when we put words or phrases together to make a sentence, we perform an act of composition or of synthesis.

2. A sentence is a statement made about something, as, The horse gallops.

(i) The something (horse) is called the Subject.

(ii) The statement (gallops) is called the Predicate.

3. Every sentence consists, and must consist, of at least two parts. These two parts are the thing we speak about and what we say about that thing

(i) The Subject is what we speak about.

(ii) The Predicate is what we say about the subject.

(i) There is a proverb of Solomon which says: "All things are double one against another." So there are the two necessarily complementary ideas of even and odd; of right and left; of north and south; and many more. In language, the two ideas of Subject and Predicate are necessarily coexistent; neither can exist without the other; we cannot even think the one without the other. They are the two poles of thought.

(ii) Sometimes the Subject is not expressed in imperative sentences, as in "Go!" = "Go you!"

(iii) Except in a contracted compound sentence, the Predicate can never be suppressed; it must always be expressed; otherwise nothing at all would be said. 4. There are four kinds of sentences: Simple, Complex, Compound, and Mixed.

(i) A simple sentence contains only one subject and one predicate. (ii) A complex sentence contains a chief sentence, and one or more sentences that are of subordinate rank to the chief sentence. (iii) A compound sentence contains two or more simple sentences of equal rank.

(iv) A mixed sentence contains two or more chief co-ordinate sentences, and one or more subordinate sentences.

I. THE SIMPLE SENTENCE.

5. A Simple Sentence is a sentence which consists of one subject and one predicate.

(i) A Simple Sentence contains, and can contain, only one finite verb. If we say, 66 Baby likes to dance," there are two verbs in this simple sentence. But to dance is not a finite verb; it is an infinitive; it is practically a pure noun, and cannot therefore be a predicate.

(ii) If we say, "John and James ran off," the sentence is="John ran off" + "James ran off." It is therefore a compound sentence consisting of two simple sentences, with the predicate of one of them suppressed. Hence it is called a contracted compound sentencecontracted in the predicate.

In this case the sentence may be treated as Simple, "James and John" forming a Compound Subject to the Predicate ran off."

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FORMS OF SENTENCES.

6. Sentences differ in the Form which they take. gards form they may be classified as follows:

(i) Assertive—

(a) Positive:-The night grows cold.
(b) Negative :-I am not going.

Not a drum was heard.

They caught never a one.

As re