analysis

The method and order of analysis are matters of im- Order of portance. The following scheme covers all the elements of any sentence:

(a) Simple, compound, complex, compound-complex.

(6) Declarative, interrogative, imperative, exclamatory,
mixed.

2. Kinds of clauses, or of members and clauses.

3. Principal elements of the sentence, or of the first member, if the sentence is compound.

(a) Subject, — peculiarity (grammatical, logical, provi-
sional, impersonal).

(b) Verb, — transitive, intransitive, factitive, copulative.
(c) Complement-object, predicate word.

4. Modifiers of the subject, and of its modifiers.

5. Modifiers of the verb, and of its modifiers.

6. Modifiers of the predicate word or object, and of its modifiers.

7. Principal elements of the second member, and following members, in the same order.

8. Connectives, as reached.

Note. -Two considerations are to be kept in mind in developing any system, - the clearness with which relations may be shown or suggested, and the economy of space. Moreover, any system carried out in great detail is liable to become an end in itself, rather than the means of indicating

ill be made for a diecrem indicating

EXERCISES

1. It freezes. It strikes twelve.

2. It rains, hails, thunders, and lightens.

3. Blood tells. Parentage, training, and experience unite. 4. Pine, maple, beech, walnut, and oak burn.

5. Trout swim. Salmon and pike flourish.

6. He or you must pay.

7. The throng is dense.

He and you must pay.

The throng are silly.

8. Hangers-on annoy. Politics rages.

9. The matron and cook has arrived.

10. The saint, the husband, and the father prays.

II. Each tarries. Both leave. Any wrong is too much

12. Neither life nor death nor principalities nor powers nor height nor depth nor any other creature, can separate us from the love of God.

13. No man liveth to himself. None knew her but to love her.

14. The foolish and the dead never change.

15. It were better to consent.

16. The last of all the bards was he.

17. Hence originated their contempt for terrestrial distinctions.

18. Never was heard a single word.

19. Few and short were the prayers we said.

20. To be or not to be is the question.

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III. PREDICATE NOMINATIVE

predicate

Few sentences are composed of nouns or pronouns Incomplete and verbs alóne. These elements may be modified or completed in many ways. Verbs have already been classed into those of incomplete and those of complete predication. Of the verbs of incomplete predication, some require after them a word or expression relating to the subject, and in some way modifying or describing it.

the mind is held in suspense; the assertions are incomplete, and the mind is unsatisfied until something is added; for example:

We are weary.

You look ill.

The man appears vigorous.

I feel hungry.
They seem soldiers.
It was his brother.

word

A word thus added, a noun, pronoun, adjective, or Predicate equivalent, because it completes the predicate and is really a part of the asserting element, is called a predicate word; and because it is brought by the verb into relation with the subject nominative, it is called a nominative word; or putting the two descriptive expressions together, we may call it a predicate nominative.

The predicate nominative: comes recularly after the

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