EXERCISES 1. Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And he that might the vantage best have took Found out the remedy. 2. You take my house when you do take the prop 3. He that has light within his own clear breast, 4. I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself by now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell, while the great ocean of truth lies all undiscovered before me. 5. For forms of government let fools contest; For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; 6. The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science that smiles in your face while it picks your pocket; and the glorious uncertainty of it is of more use to its professors than is the justice of it. "Live while you live," the epicure would say, 8. Let the traitor go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known: don't let him go to the devil where he is known. Be noble and the nobleness that lies To delight in doing things because our fathers did them d, if it shuts out nothing better: it enlarges the range of on; and affection is the broadest basis of good life. I have known persons who have been suspected of valuing gratitude; but on closer observation it has been hat, if they have never felt grateful, it has been for want opportunity. In the ages since Adam was married, it has been good ome men to be alone; it has also been good for some n. - The older I grow and I now stand upon the brink ernity — the more comes back to me the sentence in the hism which I learned when a child, and the fuller and er becomes its meaning: "What is the chief end of man? orify God, and to enjoy him for ever." . Great men are the fire-pillars in this dark pilgrimage ankind; they stand as heavenly signs, everlasting wites of what has been, prophetic tokens of what may still the revealed embodied Possibilities of human nature. 5. The man without a purpose is like a ship without a er: a waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, is only to kill and divide and sell oxen well, but have rpose; and having it, throw such strength of mind and cle into your work as God has given you. 6. How much lies in laughter: the cipher-key, wherewith decipher the whole man! The man who cannot laugh is only fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; but his whole sentence sentence XXI. ABBREVIATED OR INCOMPLETE SENTENCES Complete A sentence is complete when all its elements — essential, modifying, and connective — are fully expressed. When any element necessary to the regular Incomplete structure of a sentence is omitted, the sentence is incomplete, or abbreviated. Elements which the mind may easily supply from what is expressed, especially relative pronouns and connectives, verbs or predicate words understood from a previous clause, and clauses after comparative words, are frequently omitted in colloquial, poetic, and vivid or emotional prose discourse. Omission of verb Subject and verb Single verb A verb common to two or more clauses in a com- Pride goeth before destruction; and a haughty spirit (goeth) Love is strong as death; jealousy (is) cruel as the grave. A subject and verb common to two or more clauses If they are rich, they go to enjoy; if (they are) poor, recover. The verb is sometimes omitted in a single clause in Short (was) his career and (it was) ably run. common predicate noun or adjective may be Predicate d in the same way: ɔu are a heathen; your sister is not (a heathen). his scheme is practicable; that is not (practicable). word s kind of abbreviation may be carried to such an Most of a t that all of a second clause disappears except a : element, essential or modifying: He was purchasing books, and he was purchasing pens. He was purchasing books and pens. clause simple is better to think of this last form, and similar changed to ins of compound sentences, as simple sentences sentence a compound element, — subject, verb, predicate, oject. -- clauses he subject and forms of the verb be are often omitted In dependent ependent clauses of condition, concession, time, and It is remarkable if (it is) true. Though (it is) almost incredible, we believe it. When (it is) found, make a note of it. Wherever (they are) found, they are greatly prized. While (he was) trying to escape, he was shot. Are you hurt? If (you are) not (hurt), speak. n answers to questions, in questions after statements, Questions in answers to such questions, the entire question mont funt mada mor ha corried forward in and answers Relative word or connective mind, and only a few words, or even a single word, I shall not go up the cañon to-morrow. Why (shall you not go up the cañon to-morrow)? (I shall not go up the cañon to-morrow) because it is too When you do go (up the cañon), who will go with you? John (will go with me when I do go up the cañon). The relative pronoun or other connective is frequently left to be supplied: sti There is a pleasure (which) only poets know. It is so plain (that) he who runs may read. Interrogative for clause Infinitive or participle An interrogative word may represent a clause which it would introduce, and which is apparent from the context: He has escaped, no one knows how (he has escaped). He was gone, the Lord only knows how long (he was gone). Somebody has been here, I'd like to know who (has been An infinitive or participle sometimes with its object or complement, sometimes alone, is omitted in one clause of a compound sentence, being carried over in mind from a preceding clause : T T stitu H W Cla than cases tions which |