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21. Whatsoever thou wilt have
I will thee grant.

22. Fain would I be resolved
How things are done.

23. Ask me no more, whither do stray
The golden atoms of the day.

24. Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime.

25.

Thine own unworthiness
Will still that thou art mine, not his, confess.
26. She knew she should find them all again
In the fields of light above.

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30.

Few could know

When Lucy ceased to be.

There's no doubt, his majesty
Will soon recover his accustomed health.
I tell thee, churlish priest,

A minist'ring angel shall my sister be.
I will tell you now

What never yet was heard in tale or song
From old or modern bard, in hall or bower.

QUESTIONS ON §§ 51-56.

1. What are the three kinds of subordinate sentences? 2. What classes of words are used as connectives? 3. What is a noun sentence? 4. In which parts of the principal sentence may a noun sentence stand? 5. What are the connectives of the noun sentence? 6. When is no connective found with the noun sentence? 7. How are parenthetical sentences treated? 8. When may but introduce a noun sentence? 9. When may if introduce a noun sentence? 10. By what test may a noun sentence be known? 11. When are noun sentences co-ordinate to each other?

2. The Adjective Sentence.

57. An Adjective Sentence is one that stands in the place of an adjective. It may qualify a noun or any of its equivalents in any part of the principal sentence. Thus we find an adjective sentence attached to:

1. The subject: as, The person who grieves, suffers his passion to grow upon him.

2. An enlargement of the subject: as, The daring of the plan which brought on the combat is unparalleled.

3. The complementary nominative: as,

True love's the gift which God has given

To man alone beneath the heaven.

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(a) Direct: as, The man approached the lamp which was on the table.

(b) Indirect: as,

Some men make gain a fountain whence proceeds
A stream of liberal and heroic deeds.

5. An enlargement of the object :—

(a) Direct: as, We attacked a body of stout apprentices, who had taken possession of a part of the ground allotted to us for the scene of our diversions.

(b) Indirect: as, He gave a purse of gold to the son of the man who had saved his life.

6. An extension: as, My grandfather received this relation with that coldness of civility which was peculiar to him. 58. The Connectives of the Adjective Sentence are:1. The relative pronouns, who, which, that, whoever, whosoever as, He breaks the cord that held him at the rack. 2. The words where, when, why, whereon, whereof, whereby, &c., which have a pronominal character, being each equivalent to a relative pronoun preceded by a preposition. Thus, where in which; when (time); why for which; whereon on which; whereof of which; whereby by which. finds the pasture where his fellows graze the pasture in which his fellows graze.

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Obs. 1. The relative, when in the objective case, is sometimes omitted: as, The wreath [which] he wore drew down an instant curse.

Obs. 2. Sometimes the antecedent of an adjective sentence is not expressed: as, Who steals my purse, steals trash.

Obs. 3. A sentence introduced by a compound relative may be resolved into an antecedent noun or pronoun and an adjective sentence. In such a case the antecedent will belong to the principal sentence and the relative to the adjective sentence as,

(1) Tell me what you want tell to me the thing which you want.

(2) Whoever told you so spoke falsely the person spoke falsely who told you so.

(3) Whatever you do, do well do the thing well which you do.

Obs. 4. When but is equivalent to who + not, that + not, or which

not, it introduces

an adjective sentence: as, There is nothing in the world but was made by God is nothing in the world which was not made by God.

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Obs. 5. When the relative pronoun who can be turned into and he, the sentence that who introduces must be considered co-ordinate and not adjective: as, I wrote to your brother who replied that you were away from home and he replied, &c.

Obs. 6. Which, when it does not relate to a noun or pronoun, but to the import of the clause, often connects co-ordinate sentences: as, He heard that the bank had failed, which was a heavy blow to him and this failure was, &c.

Obs. 7. Some writers call as after such, same, so, or as, a relative: as, Such as differ from them are unwise. But this sentence is elliptical, being equivalent to "Such [persons] as [the persons are who] differ from them are unwise." Here" as the persons are" is an adverbial sentence (§ 62), and "who differ from them" an adjective sentence.

59. Care must be taken to distinguish between noun sentences in which an indirect question is involved and adjective sentences introduced by the conjunctions how, when, where, why, &c. An adjective sentence always qualifies a noun (or its equivalent) expressed or understood. E.g., (1) She wanted to know where he put the letter (noun sentence); (2) She wanted

to know the place where (= in which) he put the letter (adjective sentence).

60. Two or more adjective sentences, connected by a conjunction, may stand in the same relation to the principal sentence. Such adjective sentences, though subordinate to the principal sentence, are said to be co-ordinate to each other: as,

A simple child

That lightly draws its breath,
And feels its life in every limb,

What should it know of death?

Explanation. The adjective sentence, That lightly draws its breath, qualifies child; also the adjective sentence, [That] feels its life in every limb, qualifies child. These adjective sentences are connected by and, and are said to be co-ordinate to each other. The principal sentence is, What should it, a simple child, know of death?

61.

TWELFTH ANALYSIS MODEL.

1. From his sixth year, the boy of whom I speak,

In summer, tended cattle on the hills.

2. Upon that open moorland stood a grove,

The wished-for port to which my course was bound.

3. Strongest minds are often those of whom the noisy world hears least.

4. I found no place wherein I might abide.

5. The reapers sang of war

That lifts its shining wings.

6. We have among us the gallant Will Honeycomb, a gentleman who, according to his years, should be in the decline of his life.

7. Let us think of them that sleep

Full many a fathom deep.

8. Thence she them brought into a stately hall

Wherein were many tables fair dispread.

9. Oswin, the friend I loved, is dead.

10. Not a hut he builds but is the visible embodiment of a thought.

11. Can this be he who hither came

In secret, like a smother'd flame?

O'er whom such thankful tears were shed,

For shelter, and a poor man's bread.

12. Fain would I know the reason

Why the little ant,

All the summer season,
Layeth up provision

On condition

To know no winter's want.

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